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LDS Church and the Birth Control Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…heard from Catholics and evangelicals, but what of the LDS Church? Church policy supports all methods of contraception except surgical sterilization. Birth control is widely used and accepted among LDS Church members (as it is among Catholics and evangelicals). Church-owned Brigham Young University’s student health center offers premarital health classes that present a range of birth control options, and affordable contraception is dispensed at t…

White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…ions accountable for a rigorous, fair and consistent implementation of the policy, which does not compromise the essential principles of access to care.” While praising the accommodation as a “reaffirmation of the commitment to ensuring contraceptive coverage,” NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan will be “committed to ensuring that the policy is implemented fully and fairly, so that women receive this basic health-care benefit without…

The Antisemitism Awareness Act Just Passed by the House Would Actually Increase Anti-Jewish Violence

By Nathan Leach

…ot). If, however, one claims that the State of Israel has carried out this policy because it’s run by Jews and that’s how Jews act, then it is, at the very least, anti-Jewish; or further, if one claims that Jews act this way because it’s in their nature to do so, then it’s antisemitic. The principles here aren’t complicated, but their application requires nuanced distinctions which make it difficult to characterize whole groups of people with a br…

God Bless You, Barbara Herz

By Sarah Posner

…ans and Democrats) has for years been dealt with not as sober, responsible policy-making, but as a heavy-handed manipulation of domestic passion, real or imagined. Democrats should have stuck to their guns. Because heavy-handed manipulation of domestic passion is the Republicans’ forte. UPDATE: The Arab-American Institute has criticized the language change on Jerusalem. From its statement: The 2012 language was clearly an attempt to bring rhetori…

What’s So Scary About the Inclusion of ‘God’ in the Russian Constitution?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…stern Europe, through the lens of Russia’s increasingly aggressive foreign policy and its desire to not only cause chaos in Western democracies, but to undermine the fundamental trust in liberalism and pluralism that underlie their success. It’s in this light that the seemingly innocuous request of a bishop that “God” be included in the preamble of his nation’s constitution takes on a significantly more sinister tone. And it should, for any honest…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…there has been no church-wide General Conference agreement on changing the policy. But in 2008, the Methodists entered into full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a denomination that later allowed same-sex loving persons in ministry. Minerva grew up with a gay cousin who the family ostracized. She loved him. She searched the scriptures of her tradition to make sense of the situation. She concluded that just as farmworkers…

Tragic Violence in Libya: No Excuse for Perpetrators—or for Provocateurs

By Haroon Moghul

…ng harm upon their fellow Muslims, and seem to think nothing of it.) Does Jones selfishly think himself the only brave American, naively upturning delicately constructed foreign policy and difficult questions of strategy and policy, in the name of some kind of stand for freedom? That is too easy an excuse….

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…jectionable, “when HHS is disbursing taxpayer money to meet certain public policy objectives—in this case life-saving ones—then taxpayers should have a reasonable expectation that their money is being invested wisely.” What’s more, the notion that the federal government has somehow discriminated against Catholics is rendered even more absurd by the hard numbers: in 2011 alone, according to the federal government database at www.usaspending.gov, Ca…

Huckabee Teams Up with Citizens United to Promote Fetal Personhood

By Sarah Posner

…aiming adherence to biblical bases for law, guideposts for legislation and policymaking. In addition to promoting the notion that from the moment of conception there is exists a person “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” the film employs other narratives that are quickly, along with personhood, becoming the movement’s predominant themes: that abortion is a deadly, profit-driven “industry;” that doctors and other staff invo…

Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse

By Michael Schulson

…clearinghouse. I can imagine someone thinking about these issues with the policy tools available to them. Yeah, totally. And some people have done good work. Although there’s been an incredible paucity of work there. It’s hard to take [these concerns] into the public arena and go, “you know, you really ought to be worried, in thirty years there might be this issue,” without it devolving into an exercise of fear-mongering. Something that I appreci…