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Welcome to the “Spin-od”: Conservatives Look to Halt Reforms on Divorce and Other “Family Matters”

By Patricia Miller

…wo-week meeting was marred by allegations of manipulation, lies, and dirty tricks. Pentin’s book is long on accusations and short on findings that any actual manipulation took place outside of the expected machinations of Vatican politics, which were unusually public due to a hotbed of a media environment. There was a contentious relationship between synod officials and some of the conservative bishops over the administration of the synod, which d…

Can Shari’ah Be Imposed Through the ‘Homosexual Agenda’?

By Hussein Rashid

…semblance of reality. The latest entry in the category of Stupid Shari’ah Tricks is a minister in Oklahoma who accuses of Rep. Keith Ellison of imposing “sharee” by stealth because he supports equal rights for homosexuals. Now, one of the great talking points to get liberals to stop supporting Muslims is that shari’ah is opposed to homosexuality. This point is generally true. Most traditional religious law, Muslim or otherwise, condemns homosexua…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…cs of the transition process to Trump’s continued reliance on the dramatic tricks of the genre—and even pieces collecting reactions from veterans of the reality television industry. But if we look at “reality television” in the context of its roots in documentary film—and as a moment in the viewing public’s education in reading and relating to unscripted footage—then we can analyze Trump’s live-action moments in the international spotlight not mer…

Beck Condemns “Bigotry for Sport” in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n’t know. It’s getting hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys sometimes. Time will tell if Beck’s renunciation of violence and bigotry is true or if he’ll soon be back to his old tricks, because while he condemned the New York attackers’ actions as “bigotry for sport,” Beck clearly has no trouble with bigotry for profit….

The Ultimate Dirty Politics or Bipartisan Opposition to the Tea Party?

By Julie Ingersoll

…cy Polling (described as a Democratically-oriented polling firm) tests the numbers in a two-way race with Rubio facing either Crist or Meek. Rubio still beats Meek, but a hypothetical contest between Crist and Rubio is a dead heat. The Crist campaign denies having any part in trying to coax Meeks to withdraw. But yesterday Crist added to the list of Democrats who have defected from supporting Meek when he secured support from the Palm Beach Democr…

Religious Right Claims Heterosexual Marriage is a Requirement for Statehood

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ears. The bottom line here is that the anti-marriage gang is up to its old tricks, trying to conflate polygamy and marriage equality to create fear and loathing of gays and lesbians. This talking point has an added twist, insinuating that any state that legalizes gay marriage could somehow be kicked out of the union because they have violated some federal law defining marriage as a requirement for statehood. Such a “litmus test” does not exist. So…

American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

By Mary E. Hunt

…civil disobedience and goes to jail to help stop war or nuclear weapons. A number of the questions are clearly designed to elicit answers the Vatican knows full well it won’t like. The data will provide the pretext for concluding that the decline in numbers in progressive groups is a result of their lack of obedience and conformity to the men’s rules. Solution: tighten up the ranks. Enter the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, the alte…

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…ith and our freedom.” In announcing his candidacy, Moore was up to his old tricks. “Out of Washington comes a dangerous new message that we are not a Christian nation,” he thundered. “Indeed, I refute that.” Several years ago (after the “Ten Commandments” trial), I accompanied a group of students from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism on a tour of the South. We arranged a meeting with Moore, who is an engaging man with a good sense of hum…

Women, Religion, and Film: Higher Ground Raises the Stakes

By Sarah Sentilles

…ipping at the altar of [her]self.” This is one of sexism’s dirtiest little tricks—dismissing feminist liberation as selfish, self-centered navel gazing—and it is a devastating, life-threatening reversal. The community’s disciplining response to Corinne in the film resonates with me in part because I have received similar feedback about my own recently published memoir, Breaking Up with God. Reviewers have called me self-centered, selfish, arrogant…

Cone of Shame: A Spiritual Crisis in the Humanities

By Beatrice Marovich

…(and learned that it was not the gluten). I had all sorts of mad scientist tricks up my sleeve. You might say I’d fallen victim to one of the chief humanist errors: I’d made a fuss about the human ability to rationalize in high style, and I let it feed delusions of omnipotence. Aristotle is often credited with the claim that human beings are the “rational animal”—the one animal who’s touched by, emboldened by, possessed with reason. This allowed u…