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What the USCCB’s New “Religious Liberty” Initiative Took from Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

…of religious liberty” strategy has been deployed; yesterday I wrote about Republican charges that the Obama administration is anti-Catholic for denying federal funding to a USCCB project to help victims of sex trafficking because the USCCB will not provide or refer clients for reproductive health services. This phony charge that rights for others means infringement of Christian (and Catholic) religious liberty has reared its head in every fight o…

Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Headed for NC Vote

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he people get to vote on everything), but instead live in a representative republic (where we elect and appoint people to set laws and standards for us), this red herring is especially pernicious. As we have seen from the recent Republican presidential candidate debates, if we actually let the people vote on what rights and privileges other citizens would enjoy, the people might implement a mandatory death penalty (possibly even for lessler infrac…

The Heresy of Compromise

By Peter Manseau

…the first modern pope” had to say amounted to nodding approval (“That your Republic is progressing and developing by giant strides is patent to all…”), which at times seemed to take credit for the success it praised. In a rhetorical flourish, the pope even laid claim to the nation’s neonatal survival: “When America was, as yet, but a newborn babe, uttering in its cradle its first feeble cries, the Church took it to her bosom and motherly embrace.”…

Irish PM Scathing Denunciation of Vatican

By Anthea Butler

…rds of the Prime Minister, “frustrate an inquiry by a sovereign democratic republic.” When the Prime Minister of Ireland tears the church a new one, and implicates the Vatican in criminal activity, recalling the Apostolic Nuncio is a petty, inadequate response if it is not followed up with a direct answer for the materials outlined of the church’s failure in the Cloyne Report. In typical fashion, one of the points made by Fr. Ciro Benedettini of…

Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

By Bernard Schweizer

…all corners of the universe. In Pullman’s story, this idea plays out as a republican quest: this is the last rebellion…. This is the greatest force ever assembled…. The Kingdom of Heaven has been known by that name since the Authority first set himself above the rest of the angels. And we want no part of it. This world is different. We intend to be free citizens in the Republic of Heaven. Anatole France’s angelic rebels against God pursue a simil…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…camp and ceremony knew what meaning war gave them in the reunited American republic. Narratives of destruction which fascinated Americans during the war itself had turned to parables of triumph. But it was a particular form of triumph that allowed the heroes of Gettysburg, North and South, to cry together, USA! USA! Americans cried that together during the great national reconciliation of the Spanish-American War, when, as the press widely reporte…

Why is Huntsman’s Mormonism “Tough to Define”?

By Joanna Brooks

…vocabulary to describe. Early Thursday morning, Matthew Bowman at the New Republic tried to spin the differences between Romney and Huntsman as generational and Huntsman’s more easygoing Mormon style as evidence of the LDS Church’s evolution from mid-20th century models of “business Mormonism” to a more cosmopolitan 21st century outlook. (Both Romney and Huntsman are baby boomers. Generational? I’m not so sure.) But Time’s profile of Huntsman (al…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…udges” are subverting biblical principles; and that the very health of the republic is at risk because gay and lesbian people can be parents. In an October 1, 2008 posting on its website, Liberty Counsel asked supporters “to help us spread the word about the ongoing legal case that directly impacts the life of six-year old child Isabella and the future of this Nation,” adding that, if Vermont courts ruled against Miller, “then, on the issues of ma…

Is Terry Jones the Death Rattle of the White Male Protestant?

By Gary Laderman

…ral—dare I say hegemonic—power over American society that is as old as the republic. Is it that outrageous to claim WMHCC have generally been the primary power brokers (in government, in law, in finance, in churches) determining the course and self-definition of the nation? A few Jews here, a smattering of progressives there, and some people of color, to be sure; but if you take the long view of US history, it’s mostly WMHCC who’ve been in charge….

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…the now global War on Terror. The obvious target would be the Evangelical Republic of Texas, which supplied the hijackers with their passports, but Texas is a member of OPEC and an Arabian ally, so instead President Bandar decides to invade the Christian States of America, a country on the Eastern Seaboard that had nothing to do with the 11/9 attacks. America is swiftly defeated, and the Arabs set up a Green Zone in Washington DC to oversee what…