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House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tatute will be determined by the Courts, regardless of whether the House chooses to intervene.” If the Senate doesn’t approve the reallocation, and Pres. Obama rejects it, Boehner might not get the money he’s looking for—so much of Boehner’s moves to placate the anti-marriage equality crowd remain up in the air. The first case Boehner wants his new attorney to tackle is Windsor v. United States which involves a lesbian couple who had been together…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…nswers. Back in the 18th century Jean-Jacques Rousseau published a little book he called Émile: or, On Education. This treatise—whose utopian propositions would go on to inspire figures in both the French and American revolutions—was not modest about its aims. Rousseau promised to do nothing less than shape the very destiny and life journey of his human reader. “To live is the trade I will teach him,” Rousseau baldly proclaimed. “On leaving my han…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…06, attending a busy and crowded prayer ceremony organized by the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Devotees and pilgrims from all over the world, including China, had come there. I saw visitors from the Mainland China offering donations in Chinese currency, during a prayer session led by the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje. The donations came in small notes from the country of their origin. Helpers and translators were accepting and writing down…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…ieties we live in constrain us in the same way as gravity, there is still room for us to look beyond the horizon. A Muslim’s faith is the shuttle he mounts to escape the confines of narrow realism.” As events unfold like a collapsing dam in North Africa and the Middle East, the questions flow. What is the nature of the revolution in Egypt? By extension, what do changes taking place in the Muslim world mean? What do they mean for the US? What does…

Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

By Vincent Gonzalez

…a confession: Cybering with a girl: I had graphic cybersex with a high school sophomore girl. We are not married. Jeshi, Archbishop of Massachusetts responded within a few hours: At least it was only over the internet. Stay off chatting for a while. Take a cold shower if you think you might do it again. Monkey, an untitled confessor from California also responded within the day: At least it wasnt real sex! Then you’d be confessing to the polic…

Sarah Palin and the Politics of Victimization

By Randall Balmer

…o visit the author’s church, Wasilla Bible Church. I remember pulling the book surreptitiously out of my satchel and opening the cover with some mixture of dread and resignation, figuring that I might someday be able to make a case that the hours spent reading the book should count as a credit toward Purgatory. The autobiography was, as I suspected, pretty insubstantial, filled with morality-play vignettes from childhood and recitations of the aut…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…umbers of people leaves me wanting a male so I could form a block against too much jostling. What else I would want in a companion would have to be a perspective on Islam that I share. Something Sufi, activist, intellectual, and a bit funky. I don’t really share all of those qualities with most people I know, even my children. I hope blogging will help fill this void—a surrogate companion, sorta. I already know what it is like to be alone in a cro…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

On September 13, when word came that my friend, the Rev. Howard Moody, had died at the age of 91, I remembered a self-description he loved to put out. He said that he came from a long line of “dirt farmers, renegades, and horse thieves down in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas.” Ordinarily, this is not a heritage that would seem to produce a man extraordinarily sensitive to the feelings and the lives of women, but that he was. In 1957, the first yea…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…th a better example to illustrate a major theme of David Neiwert’s latest book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right. There has been much discussion of the culture of incivility lately, epitomized by the recent indecorous outbursts of Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R-SC) during President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress, tennis star Serena Williams toward a linesman at the US Open, and rapper Kayne West at the…

Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…e less strident forms of its religious branch), its religious ideology is loosely based on these core principles. Settler Zionism has been enormously successful but it always had a population problem. Its longterm success depends on creating sufficient “facts on the ground” in order to prevent any peace agreement that would include territorial compromise. To subvert any such agreement it needs to populate the territories (it refers to the West Ban…