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Huckabee Launches Videos to Teach Kids About American Exceptionalism

By Lauri Lebo

…pride in our great nation.” Learn Our History’s messages are all geared to promoting the idea of American Exceptionalism, and from the clips, they appear to be delivered with all the subtlety and Cold War fervor of the movie Red Dawn. From Learn Our History web site’s Frequently Asked Questions: What does it mean that Learn Our History is “unbiased”? Learn Our History’s products have been developed to correct the “blame America first” attitude pre…

Disaster Theology: Blame and Powerlessness in Japan

By Clark Strand

…ear reactors? Certainly. Does it strengthen our resolve to develop an ever better understanding of seismology? You bet. Do these guarantee that, going forward into an age of accelerating climate change and rapidly depleting oil reserves, we won’t take one hit after another to our most deeply-held belief as modern people: that we can do a better job of running the planet than the planet can? No. There is no guarantee whatsoever that we will emerge…

Romney Shovels Walks to No Avail

By Joanna Brooks

…as happened at most houses—the missionaries always offered to shovel the householder’s snow-packed walk. Just to do a good turn. Plant a seed. Leave a positive impression. Knock as he might, a lot of doors are closing in Mitt Romney’s face these days. Minnesota. Missouri. Colorado. He may very well lose Michigan, the state his father governed. Polls even suggest that Arizona, which has a large LDS population and has been described as a Romney “fir…

Turn On The News: The Times Has to Make a Choice: It Can’t Laugh at Satanic Claims and Take the Christian Right at Face Value

By Daniel Schultz

…on to an artist as transparent and unpopular nonsense, why shouldn’t an American-focused piece do likewise? Instead, we’re forced to listen to supposed Christian mouthpieces, who represent not much more than their fax machines and the reactionary donors who pay them. So one way or the other, please. Either give Anna von Hausswolff’s integralist detractors the opportunity to plead their case that she is in fact the high priestess of satanic harmoni…

Electionpocalypse, Part II: The Mythical Jewish Vote

By Sarah Posner

…, all Israelis—view Obama as an almost villainous character. “No Jewish American,” the American-born writer Barry Rubin says in the video, “should vote for Obama on the belief that he’s a great friend of Israel.” You should think about, the narrator tells you, “whether Obama will really have Israel’s back when the chips are down.” Mark Zell, co-chair of Republicans Abroad-Israel, recently told reporter Roee Ruttenberg, “in the United States, the J…

The Unsung Speech at Notre Dame, A Postmortem

By Mary E. Hunt

…up; or in her case, not. I suspect that Judge Noonan was considered a safe bet to balance the pro-choice president: an eminence gris whose conservative Catholic bona fides are polished by his claim that a fetus is essentially a person from the time of conception. Regardless of his intentions, anti-choice people must have been deeply disappointed that he did not take one for the team. Despite his valiant if ineffective effort to link anti-abortion…

Church and State in Mexico: A Political Party Wavers on Women’s Rights

By Ruth Samuelson

…verty terms, despite their socially progressive nature. Regardless, they caused an immediate revolution and contraception use escalated rapidly. These days, Mexican women on average have 2.1 children, down from seven in 1974. The Church, not surprisingly, tried to convince Mexicans of contraception’s moral hazards, though in many cases, Church leaders clearly realized they were on the losing side of the battle. “Undoubtedly some clergy turned a bl…

Your Money or Your Civil Rights? Gays Vote GOP

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e lower than the year before was 1965, when Democrats ran both the White House and Congress.) As soon as Republicans controlled both Congress and the White House in 2001, spending really took off, with more than $100 billion added to federal outlays every year that Bush sat in the White House (considerably more than either Bill Clinton or Bush 41). Spending is what Republicans do best, and you can expect them to continue it, and not on social prog…

Capricology: Divine Madness

By Salman Hameed

…cause of her hallucinations. Sister Clarice, intrigued by Amanda, both because of her visions and because she’s Zoe’s mother, starts to talk to her about God’s protection and love. I was struck by how the language used was , well so evangelical in this sequence. Even more intriguing, the one true God is male. As more of the STO religion is revealed, I hold out hope that the religious complex will get more interesting .It is not the religious compl…

Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion

By Mary E. Hunt

…wake of this incident. The New York Times ad was a decisive chapter in American Catholic history because it made transparent how the hierarchical Church works in enforcing its view. The aftermath was a painful reminder that priests and members of religious communities according to Catholic Canon Law are “public” persons in the Catholic Church whose dissent from the hierarchy’s view is considered scandalous, thus punishable. The hierarchy made goo…