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I Agree With Douthat, Church Can’t Accept Gay Marriage

By Patricia Miller

…take it back nearly 50 years to when it was on the brink of approving the use of contraception but backed down because it would codify the idea, which it had already tacitly accepted, that the purpose of marriage wasn’t limited to reproduction. This, in turn, would negate much of the church’s biological determinism around the role of women. Many of the doctrinal developments on issues related to sex and women since then have been ever-more elabor…

Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…pensity toward aggression and violence in the Southern imaginary.” But the use of visceral, brutal imagery in American hymnody flows in part from a much earlier and more formative force in American religious life: the widely influential hymns of Dissenting Anglican Isaac Watts (author of such graphic texts as “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” and “Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed”). However, given Harrison’s hefty task of clarifying the significance…

Romney “Walks the Line” on Immigration

By Joanna Brooks

…ng the line” (and fomenting outrage among base conservatives about Obama’s use of executive order—never mind the Bush administration’s use of the same) is meant to distract from the fact that the GOP does not have a viable, reasonable strategy for addressing the broken immigration system in a way that balances even the interests of its own stakeholders. Yes, immigration is one of those big-time challenges that requires an everyone-at-the-table s…

Abortion Still Issue in Senate Health Care Reform Bill

By Sarah Posner

…lify him on the abortion question.” (Here is a helpful comparison of the House (Stupak) and Senate versions of the abortion provisions.) It is still not clear what the anti-choice Democrats’ strategy is going to be. Kristen Day of Democrats for Life of America did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A few things, though, have become clear this week. Senators have been hearing a lot from the pro-choice side. David Saperstein of the Re…

The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective

By Andrew L. Seidel

…accurate history—it’s incomplete, half-forgotten or even suppressed. Duché betrayed American independence. When we hear these unconstitutional legislative prayers before government bodies all over this country we should remember their legacy is one of treason and betrayal. They are, at heart, un-American. Happy Fourth of July, America. This article is adapted from The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American which examines and debun…

Remembering Rumsfeld: The Defense Department Gospel and America’s Desert Crusade

By Nathan Schneider

…qually doomed, offer an inkling of hope that there is enough common ground between the apex of American power and the popular expressions of its terrorist enemies that the two might someday graze together, like Isaiah’s wolves and lambs. It is, backhandedly, the sign that a more patient dialogue, over years of inevitable sacrifice and setback on all sides, might finally be fruitful, uncovering a world everyone can stand to live in. But a first ste…

Archbishop Retracts Videotaped Criticism of Fellow Bishops

By Frances Kissling

…entable. As Archbishop of St. Louis Mo. He was one of the first bishops to use communion as political battering ram against then candidate John Kerry. He announced that if Kerry came to St. Louis, he would not permit him to receive communion. Shortly after that he said that Catholics who voted for pro-choice candidates were committing grave sin and needed to go to confession before they could receive communion. He lauded Sarah Palin as a shot in t…

Catholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter

By Marian Ronan

…ns on the upsurge. At the same time that anti-gay violence is growing in Africa, the number of African Christians, including Roman Catholics, continues to increase. Catholics now comprise twenty percent of the population of the entire continent, or 185 million people. It would, of course, be unfair to blame increasing anti-gay violence in Africa entirely, or even primarily, on the Roman Catholic Church, given the pivotal roles played in this cris…

Cafeteria Cockroaches and Synagogue-State Relations in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…tutional settings, a kitchen will be either “milk” or “meat”—not both. Because of the delicate relationship between synagogue and state, all Israeli government institutions serve kosher food, including both government offices and the vast apparatus of the Israeli Army. And this despite the fact that most Israelis are not themselves “strictly kosher.” Without Kashrut supervision most restaurants and hotels in Israel would not survive—they wouldn’t…

Trump’s Inaugural Address Gets an “F” in American Civil Religion

By Spencer Dew

…hat these dreams are. Likewise, no details were given as to what “glorious freedoms” America offers, not even a rote gloss of such freedoms—think “liberty, equality, and justice for all,” for example. These are familiar words, but usefully so—their repetition has a creedal function, the American people hearing and repeating for themselves the values espoused by our founders, framed at the same time as gifts and responsibilities from our “almighty…