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“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

“Seven kids! Seven kids!” one woman exclaimed at a Rick Santorum rally in Louisiana on March 21, when organizers asked people to say what they liked most about the ultra-conservative Catholic, homeschooling presidential candidate. Two days earlier, the 19-child Duggar family, famous for their reality TV show about large-family living, had released a folksy video in support of Santorum: “19 Reasons & Counting to Vote for Rick Santorum.” In it, Mic…

The Best the Largest Progressive Jewish Org Could Come Up With?

By Jay Michaelson

…ization in the country, created out of the merger of Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice, the latter of which had already swallowed up a number of smaller Jewish social justice organizations. I know several people who work at BtA, and I commend them on their ability to keep a secret. I and friends of mine plied several of these folks with drinks, but their lips stayed sealed. (I did find out that the org would have an action-…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

While a number of conservative Christian leaders raise questions about Glenn Beck’s Mormonism, Worldview Matters’ host Brannon Howse continued his attack in a conversation with Kirk Cameron about why Cameron did not participate in Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny. Howse marveled at the “thick irony” wherein Cameron (the actor who played Buck, the converted journalist warning about the “demonic spirituality of a one world religion” in the Left Behind m…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…egal reasons, have already turned themselves in to police. The case is certainly odd. 58-year-old Rabbi Kranczer, of Midwood, has 14 children and the abuse, according to the New York City Police Department, has been limited to incidents within the rabbi’s family. But the hunt for Kranczer comes at a time when federal agencies are taking a more proactive approach to prosecuting abuse in the Orthodox community. In Brooklyn last year, about 25 Orthod…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

At the risk of perpetuating yet another stereotype about gays and lesbians, I think it’s safe to say that members of our community are pretty talented at rehabbing old things. When I lived in Atlanta in the 1990s, it seemed that gays and lesbians were singlehandedly responsible for taking old houses in abandoned neighborhoods and turning them into revitalized homes and neighborhoods. The turnaround was so astounding that one year, the best sign a…