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Choose Right, Not Racism, Gov. Romney

By Anthea Butler

…esident Obama won in 2008, he had made it easier for you to run for president in 2012. Both the Republican Party and the religious right shunned you in 2008. Many Christian power brokers are holding their noses to vote for you because they hate President Obama more. Many wonder if you even are a Christian. So please, before you use racism and dog whistles against the president, consider your church’s past of persecution, and bigotry. Choose the ri…

An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…quirement on “religious freedom” grounds. Yet Rodriguez’s actual electoral usefulness to the GOP—apart from providing an evangelical face for convention coverage—appears to be exaggerated. His NHCLC likes to boast that it represents “34,200 member churches and 16 million constituents,” so Rodriguez promotes himself as the spokesperson for a large and increasingly important constituency. But according to data collected by the Pew Hispanic Center la…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s celebration of a high-profile mass on the US-Mexico border and declaration that immigration reform is “another pro-life issue” may shake up the long-standing alliance between the Catholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border cr…

RDPulpit: Israel in Gaza: Right but not Smart

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…ctivists, militants, or suspected terrorists in the West Bank or Gaza, and uses the full force of its army to prevent any further attacks on Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza, including Hebron, from any Israeli citizen or anyone based in territory under the effective control of Israel; C. Israel opens the border with Gaza and allows free access to and from Israel by Gazans and Palestinians, subject only to full search and seizure of an…

Creating a Cell: Science Plays God

By Arri Eisen

…of ‘that which God has created, the world and all in it.’ All ideas can be used for good or evil. Certainly not all that is created is great, or even good, but certainly it all has the potential to be at least good. Humans create new humans all the time. It’s how we nurture those new creations that matters. Here is where to spend our energy. I suppose you could argue, and it certainly has been argued, that ‘in the beginning’ God created everything…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Religious Vote of the Future, with a Pickle

By Jeff Sharlet

…banal tyranny of op-ed pages. I thought I could game the press. Communists used to call what I had in mind “boring from within,” and they were more accurate than they knew. What led me astray? I’ve been throwing darts at the press in my capacity as editor of The Revealer, published by New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, for several years, and I’ve been participating in the very endeavor of which I’m skeptical—mainstream media docu…

Georgia Gov Vetoes Right-To-Discriminate Bill

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…empowered government officials and wedding-related service providers to refuse to attend interfaith or interracial weddings. Allowing state actors to discriminate poses additional Establishment Clause concerns, since it gives the appearance of State support for a particular religious belief. At least eight states, including Kim Davis’s home state of Kentucky, have or are considering bills that would allow government employees to discriminate. A th…

AIDS in South Africa: Women, the Church, and Global Indifference

By Jeanne Carstensen

…in my lifetime.” But after attending the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City last year, she realized “there is no obvious sign of the epidemic diminishing until at least 2030.” Since teaching in the United States for the last five months, Haddad has been further sobered by “just how ignorant Americans are about Africa in general and the AIDS epidemic specifically.” She wants her students to understand that “the epidemic is a justice issu…

Ghosts of Halloween Past

By The Editors

…Halloween in America MARY VALLE So where does one draw the line between “fun” and “evil?” A Rationalist’s Ghost Story GARY JANSEN Believe in Ghosts? No? Well, neither did writer Gary Jansen… until they showed up in his family house in Long Island. * Not to be named here, but we’re delighted to share their number Like this story? Your tax-deductible $5 or $10 will help us pay writers, coders, interns, and editors. And will earn you our endless g…

Carter, Gore, and the New Baptist Covenant

By Bruce Prescott

…ptist Covenant.” This covenant encourages Baptists to unite in efforts to “Promote peace and justice, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick and marginalized, welcome the strangers among us, and promote religious liberty and respect for religious diversity.” They also determined to plan a meeting that would bring all Baptists in North America together; 16 million Southern Baptists were invited, but their leaders…