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White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break

By Peter Laarman

…f the economy have pretty much evaporated; it’s not that a majority of the Americans who work now make less than $30,000 per year for their trouble; it’s not that service sector employers have created a wretched temp economy in which wage workers can’t plan and can’t enjoy a normal personal life because their work schedules are constantly shifting; it’s not that involuntary part-time work is at an all-time high; it’s not that the earning prospects…

Why We Should Stop Trying to Pigeonhole This Pope

By David R. Brockman

…tresses the individual. Perhaps mindful of anti-immigrant sentiment on the American Right, he calls upon Americans not to “be taken aback” by the sheer number of immigrants, “but rather [to] view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories.” On the other hand, Francis’ critique of capitalism emphasizes the collective over against individualism. Quoting from the encyclical Laudato si, Francis calls business “a noble vocation,…

“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

…t the best possible life for all of God’s creatures… the law stands in the service of a stable, flourishing, and life-enhancing community.” From the Jewish perspective, Hazony echoes: the biblical author “wished to persuade his readers that there exists a law whose force is of a universal nature, because it derives from the way the world itself was made.” While the ritual aspects of the Mosaic code aimed at guiding the Israelites, the theological,…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…part of a consumer culture in which practitioners choose yoga products and services based on individual desires and needs. Consumption of this kind appears rather hedonistic, or perhaps, as Jeremy Carrette and Richard King have put it strongly, is characterized by an “obsession with the individual self and a distinct lack of interest in compassion, the disciplining of desire, self-less service to others and questions of social justice.” The last p…

Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…incidental that the application was made in the same week that a prominent American same-sex marriage opponent, Ryan Anderson, was giving two talks here and just days after a Supreme Court ruling that same-sex partners of Bermudians should be given the same rights as heterosexual spouses. She added: “This island is odd.” Ms Hayward-Harris said it was “very courageous of both of them” to make the application and potentially make legal history as th…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…. (Unhelpfully, this gave them the same acronym as Pakistan’s intelligence service, namely Inter-Services Intelligence). From very early on, however, al-Qaeda’s top leaders had trouble getting the Iraqi group to do as they asked. Al-Qaeda wanted its subsidiaries and foot soldiers to focus on attacking Western targets, and have increasingly demanded operations which avoid Muslim casualties, in the belief that this would cost them popular support. T…

GOP Debate Invokes Lincoln-Roosevelt Gospel, Candidates Take Turns Trampling It

By Marcia Pally

…uity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, the “largest peacetime tax increase in American history”—from the supposed great tax cutter. Reagan’s second big Tax Reform Act (1986) lowered the top rate but raised capital gains taxes on high earners. To help out the poor and lower middle classes, it expanded the personal exemption, standard deduction, and earned income tax credit, relieving six million poor of a tax burden. Also on Cruz’s docket is the elimi…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he homosexual movement, without which it would not substantially proceed.” American evangelist Franklin Graham went to Russia, praising Vladimor Putin and attacking President Barack Obama. “I have met the president on several occasions. He’s a very nice person,” Graham told a Russian newspaper. “But he supports and promotes policies that contradict the teachings of God. As a Christian I believe that abortion is murder, he supports it. Homosexualit…

How Ben Carson Uses “Secular Progressives” as a Shield

By Sarah Posner

…N turned “strangely combative” as anchor Alisyn Camerota “pressed him on a number of his recent controversial comments, including the claim that ‘many’ Americans are stupid and that ‘we’d be Cuba if it weren’t for Fox News.‘” Camerota reminds Carson she used to work at Fox News and still has many friends there, but this appears to be of no moment to Carson, who lectures her (emphasis mine): the general mainstream media all seems to move in the sec…

Philly Gives Doctors Wide Leeway with Religious Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…ar short of the current standard of care for adolescent patients. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend that adolescent patients be counseled proactively about contraceptive use as part of routine exams, particularly about emergency contraceptives and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), because of their potential to dramatically reduce teen pregnancy. The AAP “encoura…