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Benefit of the Doubt? The Shaky Ethics of Giving Prime Time to Trump’s Propaganda

By Peter Laarman

…the networks gave Trump his unfiltered megaphone anyway. They did what Fox News already does so well as Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda. There was no “ethical dilemma” here for the networks. As Princeton’s Eddie Glaude said on MSNBC, the ethical imperative here was to deny giving critical aid and support to a congenital liar and manipulator. Following the Oval Office mendacity-fest with some fact checking and giving Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi s…

Obama Administration Won’t Defend Federal Defense of Marriage Act in Court

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…anization for Marriage leader Maggie Gallagher blasted the decision on FOX News [and no, that isn’t a typo in the following transcript]: This is an end-run really around our normal constitutional processes. And we’re going to be seeing a lot more of this by President Obama now that he faces a Republican-dominated Congress. Not only is he refusing to defend the law, but he has unilaterally declared that gay is like black that orientation is subject…

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

By Jacob J. Erickson

…n.” When you consider how little and mystified our knowledge of the insect world actually is, we don’t even know fully what’s been lost. Folding this study into the other news unfolding in the sixth great mass extinction, where fifty percent of animal life has disappeared in the last forty years, I can’t help but repeat the words of ecotheorist Timothy Morton: “I feel like I’ve been kicked in the biosphere.” Our ability to lament exceeds our langu…

Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote

By Bill Berkowitz

…logical Society of America, recently wrote a piece distributed by Religion News Service titled “Don’t play politics with Communion.” O’Brien and Cahill wrote about two Catholic Obama endorsers Kansas Gov. Sebelius and Douglas W. Kmiec, an esteemed constitutional law professor at Pepperdine University, who were “recent targets of clergy who use Communion as a political weapon and effectively blacklist respected Catholic leaders.” It remains to b…

Un-Kosher Processing Plant

By Diane Winston

…re to the point, is it a story? (Imagine the newsroom pitch: Here’s a hot one–religious leaders and theologians jawing about love of God and love of neighbor.) And yet, this is religion at work in the world–slow-moving, oblique and seemingly, frustratingly, out of step, off-tune and irrelevant to contemporary standards of newsworthiness. And yet the potential for a truly big story….

A Palin Pastor Primer

By Esther Kaplan

…e in Iraq, basically, is a manifestation of what’s going on in this unseen world called the spirit world.” On Palin’s election as governor: This was the result of a “prophetic call” by another pastor at the church, who prayed for her to win. “[He made] a prophetic declaration and there unfolds the kingdom of God, you know.” From 2002 on: Wasilla Bible Church, Pastor Larry Kroon When Palin ran for lieutenant governor in 2002, she switched Wasilla c…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ons by recovering the voices of women in the Bible and offering liberatory readings of biblical texts. Such readings have hardly effected a wholesale rewiring of biblical religions, but they’ve certainly flipped a breaker here and there. Still, in a world in which even the most progressive of religious groups struggle to move away from the He-God of the sexist tradition, the problem is clearly not solved. If we’re looking at race and religion as i…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mosexual and represented by another homosexual in the Dominican Republic,” reads the letter that Al Momento, a Dominican newspaper, published on its website on Wednesday. The letter specifically criticizes James “Wally” Brewster and his husband, Bob Satawake, for “freely” taking part in last year’s Pride parade in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. The letter also references a picture of “a group” of gay men who were “semi-naked and hugging e…

Contraception: 1; Notre Dame: 0

By Patricia Miller

…themselves? I’ll get back to this question below, but first: the latest news from the fight against contraception. A federal appeals court has ruled that Notre Dame, one of the most recognizably “Catholic” of Catholic universities, must provide free contraception under its health plan. Apparently requiring the Fighting Irish to provide birth control doesn’t have the same resonance as asking cute elderly nuns in habits to do so. That’s good ne…

Will This Relic Change Our Whole View of Early American History?

By Ed Simon

…not held by the English but by French Huguenots in 1564 at Fort Caroline (today St. Augustine Florida). In understanding the complexity of early American religion one also needs to take into account the presence of Yoruba and Igbo believers, as well as Muslims, first brought into the English speaking colonies as African slaves a decade after Archer died. One should also consider the intricacies in New England religion (which didn’t just contain m…