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Ann Coulter and GOProud: In Bed Together Once Again

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ks, recently telling Joy Behar that she was happy for marriage equality in New York because now “maybe they will shut up about it,” and suggesting that men are gay because they were sexually molested. Those kind of comments apparently don’t offend the leaders and members of GOProud who, this time last year, invited (and paid) her to insult them to their faces at their “Homocon 2010” event in New York. Now, GOProud has invited Coulter to be the hon…

Why President Obama Should Not Visit the Western Wall

By Melissa Weininger

…ny good reasons why President Obama should not visit the Western Wall. The New York Times quoted Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren as saying, “Everything on the Seder table—from the lamb shank to the parsley to the egg—is rife with symbolism. So, too, with every item on the president’s itinerary.” This is a timely comparison—Passover is just around the corner. But importantly, Passover is a holiday that celebrates freedom and recalls the…

The Mother of Christian Feminist Ethics, Beverly Wildung Harrison: 1932–2012

By Mark Hulsether

…ssor of social ethics and feminist theory at Union Theological Seminary in New York City who retired in 1999 after 34 years of teaching. Others can speak with more detail and authority about Bev’s career. A fine obituary, put together by people who knew her better than I, is available here and my goal is not to reproduce it. Rather, I want to use her passing as an occasion to reflect, first, about how her intellectual power and influence as a ment…

Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…beast smelled the weakness in the appeasers, ate the food and marched and devoured most of Europe and systematically slaughtered 6,000,000 Jewish people. Hagee used essentially the same rhetoric in a speech at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend last year. Because Perry is speaking in New York, and with Jewish leaders, the assumption is he’s angling for the Jewish vote. But the Christian Zionist vote is critical in far more places than the Republ…

U.S. Bishops (Who Lit Religious Liberty Fuse) Urge Civility

By Patricia Miller

…ture war fight they ginned up in the first place. On NBC’s Meet the Press, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan discussed the Indiana controversy in what’s become his annual Easter appearance (with MTP apparently under the impression that he speaks for all believers). Dolan, who was president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops when it began its “religious liberty” drive, professed that the bishops’ organization had nothing to do with creating a…

Where the Wild Things Aren’t Just Jewish

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ing and being held, to grasp tightly even when the embrace is painful. The New York Times’ obituary referred to his books as “Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten.” We should take that eating seriously. Food and notions of consumption dominated Sendak’s work, from the bread and milk of In the Night Kitchen to the plethora of goodies on offer at Brundibar’s market and that book’s refrain, “Milk for mommy!” As a sickly chi…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a Romanian man seeking legal residency for his American husband, which the New York Times’ Kit Gillet says “will have major implications for the legal recognition of same-sex relationships across Europe.” Coman and his American partner were married in Belgium in 2010 but “the authorities in Bucharest refused to recognize their relationship for the purposes of residency.” As we have reported previously, U.S.-based religious conservative groups like…

The Hyperreal Kimmy Schmidt

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…actly, beyond explaining how the traumatized optimist Kimmy Schmidt got to New York with nothing more than a backpack full of cash and a middle school education? Well, a good place to start might be the equally ridiculously named fake religion from the elder Tina Fey/Robert Carlock creation, 30 Rock. Kenneth Parcell, you may recall, belonged to the Eighth Day Resurrected Covenant of the Holy Trinity. As we learn in the episode “Fighting Irish,” th…

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…active Mormons and gay Mormons long estranged from the faith community. In New York City, 50 gay Mormons and allies marched behind the banner of Affirmation, the nation’s oldest Mormon LGBT group. Some held signs quoting a verse from the Book of Mormon: “All are alike unto God.” Nineteen LDS marchers held the Affirmation banner in Houston, as did an estimated 100 LDS LGBT and allied marchers in Santiago de Chile. The largest contingent of the week…

Is Yoga Hindu?

By Roman Palitsky

…t. Even University of Colorado professor Lorelai Biernacki is cited by the New York Times, attributing not only yoga but meditation itself to Hinduism. Yoga’s Birth Certificate(s) Unfortunately Shukla’s claim falls apart under scrutiny. While the Take Yoga Back movement positions itself against the secularization and de-Hinduization of yoga, it can also be seen as an answer to one of the most fruitful decades in yoga research to date. A corpus of…