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Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…can accept, even if they do so passively. Statements from Trump’s camp about deporting undocumented immigrants, banning Muslims or putting us on a registry, increasing stop-and-frisk programs across the country, and others, aren’t being highlighted as wrong, as unconstitutional, as racist. Instead, we hear the normalization of these racist policies. Some have described this as a form of obedience testing, to see just how far he can go before more…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…pjones.substack.com. I would be remiss here if I didn’t give a grateful shout out to my friend Robin DiAngelo, who put her finger on this problem years ago in her best-selling book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. She writes, “The key to moving forward is what we do with our discomfort. We can use it as a door out—blame the messenger and disregard the message. Or we can use it as a door in by asking, Why do…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…you truly think that a fertilized embryo is a rights-bearing human being. But a life-of-the-mother exception, without a rape exception, gives a pretty clear picture of where the pregnant woman’s welfare fits into the picture. It’s saying, in essence: “Is being pregnant going to actually directly literally kill her? No? Oh, so it might just completely wreck her life and re-traumatize her in ways I can never really understand since I’m not her? Yeah…

Gay Marriage to End “Culture Wars”?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ormally would follow.” But just as Wildmon is no doubt deeply concerned about Proposition 8, and is laying out the worst case scenario for his supporters in the apocalyptic vernacular, rest easy America; the “culture wars,” to paraphrase New York Yankee philosopher/catcher Yogi Berra, ain’t over til’ they’re over. And if Prop. 8 were to be defeated, don’t expect Wildmon’s culture warriors to pack their bags for safer climes. Nevertheless, this…

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

By Patricia Miller

…dates back to the first Catholic bishop of the United States. • And last but certainly not least, Newark Archbishop John Myers, who has come under fire for the diocese’s failure to supervise a known predator priest and has been an outspoken opponent of John Kerry and other pro-choice Catholics, is adding a $500,000, 3,000-square foot wing to his $800,000, 4,500-square foot weekend/retirement home nestled on 8.2 wooded aces in New Jersey’s tony Hu…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…sh or Muslim) identity, moving it in the direction of the California Institute for Integral Studies or the Institute of Noetic Sciences? The faculty and administration deny that this will happen. But time will tell. What’s really at stake in the furor of criticism? What trends do they signal? Conservative schools that fight interreligious education isolate themselves behind higher and higher walls, rather like the walls U.S. embassies have to buil…

“Stress Test” a Con: Obama Still Coddling Banks

By Peter Laarman

…dulous “reporting” of the whole affair in the corporate media. Only a tiny number of outlier critics—like Simon Johnson—are given any air time at all. Everybody else, from NPR to Fox News, goes right along with the cute “stress test” metaphor, forgetting that the so-called patient being “tested” is actually an 800-pound gorilla that needs to be put into a cage if not shot dead outright. Johnson pointed out this morning that today’s news non-event…

Prosperity Gospel Is Not the Only Problem with Joel Osteen’s Harvey Response

By Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

…Monday, a VOAD liaison in Texas told us that Lakewood was on high ground, but largely cut off from required points of access due to floodwaters. The area has utility problems, backed-up sewers, and limited access to food delivery or medical care. Whether genuinely moved or Twitter-shamed into action, Lakewood Church put up a page on its website lateMonday to collect donations and seek volunteers for Samaritan’s Purse, a nondenominational evangelic…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…ur of ferocious Googling, I was unable to find out specific information about the place. But here are some Orange County rentals with the same market value in 2014 dollars. They’re not mansions, but they’re a lot nicer than any place I’ve ever lived in.) Back to the FFRF suit. The IRS tried to have it dismissed, but last November, a federal judge ruled that the exemption violated the establishment clause and the suit could proceed. The IRS is appe…

Double Helix: Who’s Your Daddy?

By Arri Eisen

…ds of people estimated to employ the test by the end of the year spoke positively of the experience in a recent MSNBC story, saying, “I think it’s a lot more ethical for you to find out the truth.” Yes. As long as you want to know the truth and as long as you understand what kind of truth it is. Look in the mirror first….