Religion Dispatches
…r, have the American people learned more than enough about some of the less-than-ethical ways she goes about her business? Everyone will have an opinion and most of those opinions will be flawed. After all, it is nearly impossible to predict what will happen in the coming year, let alone in 2012. Christianity Today’s Sarah Pulliam recently interviewed Ross Douthat, a senior editor at The Atlantic and the co-author of “Grand New Party: How Republic…
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…s with an open heart.” Mexico: In-depth look at forces behind anti-marriage-equality movement BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder and Diego Olavarría published an in-depth story on the backlash to marriage equality, which has included rallies across the country over the past month. This was not simply a spontaneous backlash to the president’s proposal. This was an event more than a year in the making, coordinated by a network of conservative groups who wanted…
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…Rights Action Fund (PRAF). This fall, he has been working to thwart new aid-in-dying legislation in New York and Washington, D.C., as well as a referendum in Colorado (which ultimately passed). In this effort, he is clearly trying to position himself as the antithesis to Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old Californian, diagnosed with the same cancer as Hanson, who died in 2014 shortly after appearing on the cover of People magazine under the headlin…
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…any pilgrim walking into Saint Peter’s can look into the depths of its catacombs. But in those same catacombs are depictions of a woman wearing a dalmatic with her hands in the “orans” position used by priests during consecration at mass. Francis and the church’s continuous denial of this history and the shifts occurring all around them means the Catholic church is not a house of stone, it’s a house of cards. And more denial of women’s vocations w…
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…el Schulson and I argued in The Cubit’s manifesto, much of today’s religion-versus-science debate is hopelessly myopic. Religion and science are diverse, messy, and ever-evolving concepts. Sometimes they oppose one another and sometimes they cooperate, and yet they are most often typecast as epistemological sumo wrestlers. The stereotype that religion and science are fundamentally at odds, sometimes known as the Conflict Thesis, informs a lot of s…
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…s, as the New York Times noted, “Trump won his biggest margins among middle-income white voters.” Many of these middle-income white voters are Catholics in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin that swung heavily, and unexpectedly, toward Trump. And among these voters, who aren’t necessarily economically struggling the same way that blue-collar voters are, the Affordable Care Act loomed large. Just over 80 percent of Trump voters…
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…The meeting (as reported on the website) contained more than the usual over-the-top Religious Right rhetoric of fear. Scarborough warned that an Obama administration would criminalize basic Christian beliefs. Burress asserted that the “difference between McCain and Obama is like the Grand Canyon.” And Garlow warned that California was about to pass a law that would require pastors to perform same-sex marriages. Despite appeals from younger evangel…
Read More…The meeting (as reported on the website) contained more than the usual over-the-top Religious Right rhetoric of fear. Scarborough warned that an Obama administration would criminalize basic Christian beliefs. Burress asserted that the “difference between McCain and Obama is like the Grand Canyon.” And Garlow warned that California was about to pass a law that would require pastors to perform same-sex marriages. Despite appeals from younger evangel…
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…and 2 countries it is not well received here in Boston, one of the most gay-friendly, crime-ridden cities in the country. “I don’t believe arming ourselves is a sustainable response to a subculture of hate towards homosexuality. We are not going to settle our scores as a community by having a shoot-out at the OK Corral,” stated Sue Hyde of the Boston office of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to Southern Voices in 2002. But Jonathan Rauch,…
Read More…Title X is the federal program that funds family planning services for low-income women, and goes to health care providers including Planned Parenthood. Today Santorum appeared on CBS to address Foster Friess’s aspirin-between-the-knees “joke.” Santorum, as in the 2006 interview, made an effort to demonstrate that although he personally opposes birth control, he does not intend to restrict access to it. In doing so, he once again said he supporte…
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