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Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…ations. They have an eager partner (with many followers) in Iran. And this partner, in true folie a deux fashion, is Iran’s president, who repeatedly provides powerful ‘proof’ of the Rabbi’s worldview. A week ago Iran’s President Ahmadinejad said that, “The existence of the Zionist regime is an insult to all humanity.” A couple of days later, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayotallah Khameni supported and confirmed that sentiment, dubbing the State of Israe…

If the Girl Scouts Investigated the Bishops…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…l Scouts USA meets the appropriate standards for a Catholic organizational partner. In light of this, why not ask whether the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth meet Girl Scouts USA’s standards, rather than just the other way around? Girl Scouts USA has, after all, developed significant programming to encourage girls to pursue their interests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The website even calls girls “natu…

Bryan Fischer’s Homophobic Attacks on Romney’s Spox

By Sarah Posner

…be. While at the United Nations, Grenell fought unsuccessfully to have his partner, Matt Lashey, listed among the spouses in the United Nations’s Blue Book, a personnel directory. “It’s concerning that you would have somebody tapped to be potentially in an administration that would continue the policies that we’re seeing in the Obama administration,” Perkins said. See, it’s all a matter of presentation. Perkins knows enough not to go rhetorically…

Why Rick Santorum Can’t Just Say: God Doesn’t Want You To Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…to state the obvious, any queer person in a committed relationship with a partner or with a circle of friends and companions knows that selfishness is as pathetic in a queer life as it is in a straight one. Apparently Chambers has forgotten that during the AIDS plague, queers were highly unselfish in their taking care of one another (including, let’s mention out loud, lesbians taking care of gay men). It’s a pity that Chambers’ experience of the…

NOM Claims Victimhood for the Holidays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…icle from a judge in Minnesota who married “a dying Minneapolis man to his partner of 38 years.” Minnesota is facing a vote on an amendment to ban marriage equality. Judge Lloyd Zimmerman tells a touching story about these two men and argues strongly in favor of marriage equality by outlining just how horrifying the “gay lifestyle” really can be: Our neighbors who can’t legally marry take out the garbage, mow the lawn, shovel the snow, coach hocke…

Of Sports and Social Justice: An Interview with Rebecca Alpert

By Susan Henking

…would the impact of your work be? And how would our world be different? My partner, Christie Balka, edited a book a number of years ago to which I had the honor of providing the title, Twice Blessed. Christie often reminds me that I told her the book would have no effect and I have spent much time eating my words both about her work and my own. I have been three times blessed with the good fortune of seeing my work contribute to change: opening li…

Why I Am a “Cuomosexual”

By Donna Schaper

…and life. Another, be sure to thank Governor Andrew Cuomo and his domestic partner for showing us a new and winning strategy for justice. They are on the right track. And finally: let’s never forget the price of rent or the cost of gas while we also remember our sister, brother, cousin, and friend. In other words, cultural issues are not “better” than economic issues; nor vice versa. They are one and the same. We’re in a new political era. Marriag…

Pope: Heterosexual Marriage “Makes Europe Europe”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…That was the message the Pope chose to present to a significant New World partner. But just one day before, the Pope’s message to a stalwart region of Eastern Europe and a relatively new member of the European Union was more pugnacious. In it, Benedict XVI explicitly appealed to the increasingly embattled concept of a European identity. Marriage and the family constitute a decisive foundation for the healthy development of civil society, countrie…

“Living in Favor, Abundance, and Joy” (Unless You’re Gay)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…: Say a friend of mine like Elton John watching this at home, who with his partner—a civil partner, David Furnish—have just had a surrogate child which was born on Christmas day. They’re going to be pretty angry what they hear. They’re going to think who are you to call them a sinner. J. OSTEEN: Yes. MORGAN: But why are they sinners in your eyes? J. OSTEEN: Well, it’s strictly back to what the scripture says. I mean, I can’t grab one part and say…

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…he Muslim League (Nawaz) run by former president, and former PPP coalition partner, Nawaz Sharif. There is a long history of disputes between the governor and the chief minister of Punjab before the blasphemy issue came to the center of the storm. So, many questions remain about the murder, the motive, and whether Qadri acted alone. It is also unclear how long the PPP government will last given the steady erosion of their coalition since the the M…