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Why The Advocate‘s Choice of Pope Francis for Person of the Year is a Mistake

By Anthea Butler

…a big bag of whut? for this liberal Catholic. Perhaps the venerable LGBT magazine thought this would be an appropriate birthday present for the pontiff, but the gift, as well as the thought behind it, is misplaced. In case the editors of The Advocate did not notice, the Pope’s statement flying back from Brazil for World Youth Day was not a change in Catholic teaching, but in tone. The Pope’s “If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will,…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…ood in decades past left us with Sayyid Qutb and violent offshoots like Gamaa’ Islamiyya, not to mention Ayman al-Zawahiri. We kept quiet even as hatred of the regime bred hatred of America. Think about that for a moment. Why do we fund a regime that, in past decades, so made their own people hate us that they wanted to and actually did attack us? Why continue to support a regime that had chances to peacefully end this standoff, for there are alt…

Want a Slurpee with Your Birth Control?

By Patricia Miller

…asn’t a problem: Is the ability to buy contraceptives, that are now widely available—my Lord, all you have to do is walk into a 7-11 or any shop on any street in America and have access to them—is that right to access those and have them paid for, is that such a towering good that it would suffocate the rights of conscience?” It’s one of the bishops’ favorite arguments: that birth control is so cheap and so widely available that it isn’t even a qu…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to describe me as being “anti-gay” or “anti gay-marriage.” First, I am not against homosexual “marriage” because there is no such thing. I cannot be against something that does not exist according to God’s definition. But I am adamantly pro authentic, historic marriage. And God’s Word on the subject, along with an indescribably spectacular 42 years with Carol, caused me to be so intensely pro (natural) marriage. I was once asked by a secular n…

“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…y begins on January 6th. One of the early events is the Krewe du Vieux, a parade that is—if such a thing is possible—more transgressive, more out there, than those of the big day. I had heard about one club that marches in Krewe du Vieux, that, as a recent Jewish transplant to the Big Easy, I really had to see for myself: the Krewe du Jieux. It was a warm, sunny afternoon, Saturday, January 19, and the streets of the French Quarter were teeming…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…ists, with whom he clearly felt an affinity. RD contributing editor Peter Laarman, who effectively succeeded Moody and served as senior minister of Judson from 1994 to 2004, writes: Howard had an electric and electrifying personal presence; I think of it as the aura of a truly fearless human being. There aren’t that many. You got the sense that he had done the intellectual and spiritual work at such a deep level that it was in his bones. A telltal…

The Bible is a Good Book, But God Didn’t Write It

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the political landscape. __________ RD: One of the things you are fighting against in this book is a literal reading of the Bible. Why do you believe people insist on reading the bible literally and not daring to ask, or even trying to form, the questions? JS: We put an aura around the Bible that makes it very difficult to look at it any other way than as some mystical book that dropped from the sky. In some church processions, they walk in and so…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…The Atlantic, Peter Beinart reports that ‘presidential hopeful’ Lindsey Graham, addressing the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, declared: ‘Everything I learned about Iranians I learned working in the pool room. I met a lot of liars, and I know Iranians are liars.’ Now, I know you had the same reaction to this unbelievable statement that I did: Lindsey Graham is running for office! And not just running, but as the foreign policy expert….

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ere queuing up for photos on raised pedestals in the fountains in Kiener Plaza, the park in the shadow of the Arch. Different as the decorated wedding groups seemed from the hundred or so other mostly young adults—OccupySTL—holding forth in Morton May Amphitheater across the way, it seems fair to say that their dreams were perhaps not so far apart from what historian James Truslow Adams was bold to name as a uniquely American aspiration even in th…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…s as a widely dispersed, center-less system for individual travelers on separate routes, an enactment of the American protestant primordial act: the prioritizing, centering, and sacralizing of the individual in pursuit of their own happiness. A few months ago, when the California Department of Transportation closed a portion of a major highway, California I-405, for expansion, the event quickly became known as “Carmeggedon.” When a significant cra…