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A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…ed and the Boycott Arizona campaign began, the UUA Board of Trustees put a business resolution on the GA agenda to relocate its 2012 Phoenix meeting. Through consultation with the organizations Puente and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), the UUA decided to keep the event in Phoenix, but focus it intentionally on immigration justice. Soon thereafter, immigrant rights leaders in Phoenix invited the UUA to join them for the July 2…

The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark

By Jay Michaelson

…the long history of us-versus-them thinking that affects how the ADL does business. The ADL has, in its bones, centuries of Jewish woundedness; it’s part of its board, its mission, its way of being in the world. For years now, it has acted like the wounded boy with the atom bomb, arm-twisting the powerful to say ‘uncle,’ and gaining money, clout, and moral high-ground with the sonorous pieties of “Never Again.” And now it has jumped the shark: it…

Catholic Church Targets Proponent of Women’s Ordination; Feminist Theologian

By Mary E. Hunt

…t pedophilia and episcopal cover-ups have wrought, go blithely about their business of disciplining priests, nuns, and theologians. What used to be a large tent of a church is now a tepee—soon to be a pup tent—if these gentlemen have their way. Catholics wonder where it will end. This afternoon, Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois joined other supporters of feminist ministry on the sidewalk in front of the Vatican Embassy. Bourgeois is the founder of t…

Did Jackie Speier Shatter “Common Ground”?

By Sarah Posner

…which as we know bankrolls Planned Parenthood’s lucrative sex trafficking business — which is what you would believe if you listened to the right-wingers like Chris Smith (R-NJ)). But I digress. The real issue with Ryan-DeLauro, which I wrote about here in 2009, is that it sought a religious imprimatur for what Planned Parenthood and other providers of and advocates for women’s reproductive health services have done for years: make it possible fo…

2012 Presidential Hopefuls: God Game is On

By Sarah Posner

…right base, Romney was at a disadvantage. He was boring, technocratic, and business-like, and the audience wasn’t buying his claim to be on their side on abortion and gay marriage. In contrast, Huckabee knew how to play the big-bad government card, claiming that the crisis we face is not “fiscal,” but “moral” — in other words, if everyone was just good and “Judeo-Christian” we wouldn’t need financial regulation. (Good luck with that!) See, for Huc…

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…y belong to any religion or caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State.” Would that Jinnah had survived longer (he died in 1948) to secure that principle in Pakistani society. Instead, the now over sixty-year struggle to determine the relationship between Islam and the state in Pakistan has claimed another victim in Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province. A Public Murder The assassination of Taseer on Janua…

Senator Punts Televangelist Inquiry for “Self-Reform Within the Community”

By Sarah Posner

…them in detail, but scanning them they appear to extensively document the business dealings of the six televangelists — Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Eddie Long, Joyce Meyer, Paula White, and Creflo Dollar.) Grassley, whose term as ranking member of the Finance Committee is coming to an end because of Republican term limits, had been under pressure from allies of the targeted televangelists not to encourage more government regulation of their act…

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…e 112th Congress convened on Thursday, January 6, 2011, the first order of business was a religious ritual designed to underscore the import of a historic transition of power: a reading of the US Constitution. Or rather, a reading of it without some of its ickier original parts, such as the original fugitive slave provision quoted above. It was constitutional fundamentalism without some of the fundamentals. Governing by the Letter The constitution…

“I Am Gay” Billboard Causes Stir in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ecide” to be straight. He went on to suggest that the billboards should be classified as “adult only,” and Spicer suggested they be relegated to adult business zones—mainly industrial areas at the outskirts of the city. The billboards were designed by a gay advocacy group in Albany and paid for the state health department “as part of an effort to find a more effective way to reduce the HIV infection rate, which has disproportionately hit gay and b…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…, in which businesses would help fund on-site charter schools. The funding business would have a significant voice on the governing board and reserve half of the seats in the classrooms for children of employees. These efforts and others will be supported during the upcoming National School Choice Week (January 23-29) in which Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition (and director of Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition during the…