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The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. And if they don’t, maybe the media should take a hard look at how it covers a predictable, lightly attended act of agitprop which claims to represent hundreds of thousands of people…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…ny time during the day. Gun ownership is outlawed in eight states and “the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships.” Home schooling has been “severely restricted” thanks to the lobbying efforts of the National Education Association. Anonymous points out that although President Obama “expressed strong personal disapproval” of many of the Supreme Court decisions that have brought about these chang…

Clergy Shouldn’t Be Able to Steal Funds for Grindr or Dolls

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ud and abuse in the name of Grindr and dolls. Congress could amend the law tomorrow to require that houses of worship file the same paperwork that every other nonprofit and charity files. This move would protect churches. There’s no religious freedom issue with asking churches to file financial paperwork with the government. Tax exemption is a privilege, not a right. Congress can attach strings to that privilege, including financial transparency….

Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…blic domain. But here it is. Beck alleges that all Muslims are either “moderates” or “Islamists.” Moderates are the Muslims he likes, who work to reform a religion that is fundamentally defective. I asked Rula Jebreal—an author, journalist, award-winning filmmaker and frequent television commentator—to help. She said we are frequently “blind to the diversity and nuances within Islam,” and that those who offer us sweeping generalizations about Isla…

Roe v. Wade: What Would MLK Do?

By Tamura Lomax

…ay commemorates the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Significantly, both King and Roe v. Wade represent aspects of the civil rights manifold: one emphasizes the personhood of all humanity regardless of race, and the other insists upon one’s right to choice despite gender. Ironically, the battleground for civil rights based on race and gender remains under social and politica…

A Tea Party Leader Hates Christians

By Sarah Posner

…he DREAM Act students have shown themselves to be our leaders not only for tomorrow, but for today as well. These are students who desire nothing less than to serve their country – the only country many of them have ever known. Though the Senate slammed the door of opportunity shut in the faces of these young people, DREAM Act students have shown they refuse to be held back. Their passion is a witness to people of faith and we as United Methodists…

Is Religion to Blame for Violence? Karen Armstrong’s Flawed Case

By Paul Harvey

…f radical Islam, or the role of religion in the Thirty Years War), she separates out “religion” from other factors – political, cultural, economic, and so forth – after she has pointed out that such a separation is a construct of modernity. This is not a fatal flaw in the book, but speaks to its contested place as at once an academic survey as well as an intervention in an ongoing but oversimplified and disheartening “debate.” Armstrong wants to e…

Confusion Reigns on Cairo Streets

By H.A. Hellyer

…of violence in Tahrir, more and more are pleading for people not to go on tomorrow’s protest. Indeed, the Mufti of Egypt, one of the most respected religious figures in the Arab world, just urged people yesterday to stop protesting. Other reports indicated that other religious figures, whether inside or outside Egypt, were claiming it was a duty to go protesting tomorrow. And so the cycle begins, and the confusion deepens. None around us know wha…

Pete “Spare Tire” DeGraaf’s Operation Rescue Ties

By Sarah Posner

…n Rescue group turned over its local activities to Hope for the Heartland: Tomorrow belongs largely to the religious right, as a newly formed Wichita group called Hope for the Heartland sponsors an outdoor anti-abortion rally boasting such names as Robertson and the Rev. Donald Wildmon, head of the American Family Association. Tomorrow’s rally is expected to mark Operation Rescue’s bow out of Wichita and the handing over of its “Summer of Mercy” t…

The Death of Truthiness: A True Believer Mourns The Colbert Report

By Stephanie Brehm

…in Comedy Central marathons). In lieu of flowers, please send money to Stephen Colbert’s Super Pac, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow….