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Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…ntrol law became law. So we’ve got a lot of really foreign concepts in our code, and what a refreshing, refreshing thing it is to have a longtime member of Congress have these ideas of restoring the constitution and restoring the integrity of the Second Amendment. So it comes to the time that was advertised for my being here. It says, Dr. Ron Paul, defender of the Second Amendment, awarded for his many years of defending the Second Amendment and p…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…answer everything. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they are not actively promoting the use of “supplemental materials” like pro-intelligent design textbooks such as Pandas and People, used in Dover, and its follow-up, The Design of Life. Evangelicals may not realize it, but such an approach is a risky strategy. It’s not just bad science, it’s bad theology. Such dichotomy forces students to choose between faith and science. After Dover’s trial wa…

“Traditional” Marriage or a Break with Tradition?

By Stephanie Coontz

…reeing that a marriage was valid only if it took place in church, with the approval of a priest. When his advisors pointed out that this would render the majority of Christians illegitimate, the pope backed off. For the first 16 centuries of its existence, Christianity held that the validity of a match was determined by a couple’s stated intention to be married, rather than by any formal ceremony or licensing process. This doctrine of consent took…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…in 100 years.” It isn’t a stretch to say that his invocation of “truth” is code for conservative Christian dogma; his real problem with Harvard—and academia in general—is that its scholars do not defer to such dogma. But there’s no need to stretch as Santorum explicitly linked higher education to the work of Satan in a 2008 speech (which has recently gone viral) at Florida’s Ave Maria University. The intimate connection between these views and his…

Op-Ed: The Real Muslims?

By Svend White

…ity” (which basically means Sunni, though sectarians of all stripes treat it as a literal description of their pet approach to Islam; it is surprisingly difficult to find an accessible but nonpartisan explanation of this crucial concept online) were routinely used as code in some Muslim organizations for “Sufis (to say nothing of the hated Shiah) need not apply here.” As with those evangelicals who treat their rather novel dogmas as self-evident,…

The Cynical Use of “Freedom of Religion”

By Kate Childs Graham

…In 1954, Senator Lyndon Johnson presented an amendment to Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3), which was subsequently adopted by Congress. The amendment defined nonprofit tax-exempt entities—including churches—as those “which [do] not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” During the recent election cycle, the…

Only Fetuses and Popes are Worthy

By Frances Kissling

…er to the child’s life they too were under duress and the penalty does not apply. Finally if these people genuinely believed that they were doing the most moral thing possible in a very difficult situation; no penalty applies. Can you imagine that a mother or a doctor confronted with a nine-year-old who has been raped would not believe that the most decent and moral thing one can do is terminate the pregnancy? Can you imagine a pastor not standing…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…The elderly couple who owned the B&B had invited us down to the Victorian appointed living room to watch television with them that evening. As Buchanan’s speech (which Molly Ivins once remarked “sounded better in its original German”) got around to gays and lesbians – an uncomfortable silence permeated the room. “Americans are a tolerant people. But a majority believes that the sexual practices of gays, whether a result of nature or nurture, are…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…um, which is conducting state-by-state analysis of primary results in what appears to be an effort to get a statistical grip on the religious vote. Pew Forum data from last weekend’s contest in South Carolina shows that evangelical Christians did play a major role in the Gingrich victory. Of the two-thirds of Republican voters who self-described as “born-again” or “evangelical,” 44% voted for Gingrich, 22% for Romney, and 21% for Santorum. This is…

Rick Santorum Figures Out the Feminist Plot to Create “Phony” Abortion Exceptions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…imes necessary to preserve the life and health of the mother. And we might appeal to sympathy: Surely (we’d say) even those who are opposed to elective abortion see that it’s another case entirely when the pregnant woman’s life is in danger? And we might go on to suggest that a conversation between doctor and patient is the appropriate setting for determining whether that’s the case in a particular situation. As opposed to, say, legislation that w…