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Washington Post Blogger “Proud” To Have Shared Stage With Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…n one of the State Department cables released by WikiLeaks, a U.S. embassy official in the Netherlands summed up Wilders for President Obama as “no friend of the U.S.”: The Wilders Factor: Golden-pompadoured, maverick parliamentarian Geert Wilders, anti-Islam, nationalist Freedom Party remains a thorn in the coalition’s side, capitalizing on the social stresses resulting from the failure to fully integrate almost a million Dutch Muslims, mostly of…

Michael Vick Walks on Water: Updated

By Nicole Greenfield

…coach Andy Reid conceded to the inevitable and designated Vick the team’s official starting quarterback in Kolb’s stead. And despite being sidelined for a month with a rib injury sustained in the team’s first meeting with the Redskins, Vick, with bold runs and aggressive throws characteristic of his first years in the NFL, has astonished in every one of his games since. “I’m very proud of him,” Reid said of Vick, who is currently the top-rated qu…

Robertson’s Organizations Persist in Calls for Probe of Congressional Muslim Staffers

By Sarah Posner

…ited to prayer meetings, which, as Khan told me earlier this week, are not official CMSA functions, but are run under the auspices of the House Chaplain. (See the House Chaplain’s website for evidence of the prayer meetings being open to the public, like other religious meetings held under the Chaplain’s auspices.) What’s more, neither Fox nor ALCJ have produced evidence any of these individuals were invited by the CMSA; as Khan noted, the prayer…

Vatican Pitbulls Make Cardinal

By Mary E. Hunt

…l went back to his home diocese in Pittsburgh to head the local seminary in 1982. But by 1985 he was destined for a higher calling. Meanwhile, Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle was a popular and liberal cleric who ran afoul of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, then head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Much like the US nuns who are being investigated now, Hunthausen was the subject of an Apostolic Visitation because he was suppor…

Vatican Paper: Simpsons are Catholic

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…t was the going trend for the decade or so of the airing of the program. In 1992, George H.W. Bush famously spoke of his desire “to make American families a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.” And the unofficial U.S. cultural watchdog, Bill Donahue and the Catholic League, worked to get some changes made to the show for anti-Catholic biases (see here). Donahue himself has already gone on record to the recent Vatican report…

Anti-Choice Groups Target Anti-Choice Democrats With Health Care Lies

By Sarah Posner

…ed abortion. “The larger problem here,” Dannenfelser went on, “is a public official’s attempt to use a criminal statue to silence legitimate debate on his record.” Yesterday the SBA List sued Driehaus and the Elections Commission in federal court, seeking to have the Ohio election law declared an unconstitutional infringement of free speech. The SBA List and its allies are alone in making their false claims about the abortion funding in the PPACA….

Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…, the closet, or excommunication. But it may in fact be the most important official statement on LGBT human rights and Mormon doctrine ever made. Here’s why—those of us who closely watch LDS discourse on LGBT issues note the following: 1. The statement uses the words gay and lesbian without scare quotes or the prefacing term “so-called.” In previous statements, the LDS Church has used scare quotes or the phrase “so-called” to interrogate the rea…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…sion), she would be one of Yogananda’s closest disciples until his death in 1952. As the spiritual leader of the Self-Realization Fellowship, Daya Mata provided guidance and training for lay practitioners as well as monastic members and continued to disseminate Yogananda’s teachings on Kriya Yoga to the world. She was a spiritual guide to thousands of members who affectionately referred to her as sanghamata, “Mother of the Society.” According to D…

DADT Repeal: The New “Religious Freedom” Issue

By Sarah Posner

…r troops’ religious liberties in unprecedented jeopardy. Indeed, the first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and Service members.” Blomberg continued, “We hope that our nation’s leaders will work to ensure that none of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines are ever made to choose between serving their country or obeying their God as result of this damaging policy decision. And ADF stands rea…

LDS Apostle Says Same-Sex Attraction Can be Overcome

By Joanna Brooks

…welve Apostles, including a speech to an All-Church Coordinating Council in 1993 declaring gays and lesbians, feminists, and intellectuals “dangers” to the LDS Church. In the academic discipline of religious studies, there are those who focus on institutional discourses of religion—official church histories, theologies, and declarations—and there are those who study “lived religion,” the way the practice of religion feels to those who give their l…