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Would Manny Ramirez’s Clone Use Steroids?

By Arri Eisen

…ces will decrease and over time may well even become a minority. Now, our experiment. A clone is an exact genetic copy of an organism. Take, say, the DNA from the nuclei in any cell of Mr. Ramirez (virtually all our cells have the same DNA). Stick that DNA into a new egg, fertilize the egg to start the dance of development, implant the new mini-Manny in a mommy, and after nine months, shazam!—you have a cloned Ramirez. Kind of. But not really: Man…

Economy Bankrupting the Culture War?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…est in our community as a political football can certainly sound like good news, except, being human and all, we’re also part of that economic downturn. It appears, according to a new study, that more and more gay and lesbian people are living in poverty, shattering the myth pushed by the religious right that gays are far wealthier than heterosexuals. Lesbian couples are more likely to be poor than married heterosexuals, and children of same-sex p…

Hail Santa! War-on-Christmas Outrage Over Satanic Tree Reveals the Self-Serving Ambiguity of ‘Religion’

By Joseph Laycock

…ailroad Museum in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, began its “Festival of Trees.” Sixty-six businesses and charitable organizations, including The Satanic Temple of Wisconsin, donated trees to the Museum, which is privately funded and accepts no tax dollars (save for occasional grants). The response was predictable as conservative Christian groups rushed to condemn the five-foot tree adorned with red Christmas lights, upside-down crosses, and messages like…

The Unsung Speech at Notre Dame, A Postmortem

By Mary E. Hunt

…age was an unsatisfying if honest resort to mystery when reason fails. He explained the nature of conscience (no one can coerce anyone else, unless of course you are the Vatican and pretend to coerce everyone), called the president a person of conscience, and urged graduates to join the community of conversation that is a democracy. He counseled prayer and love for one’s opponents, and exclaimed that “truth will win out.” It was hardly the stuff o…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

…ns to put me on the list of speakers. I bought tickets… then there was a mix up… and I was cut from the list, if I had indeed been on a list… but I had some Christians who expressed concern…. and then I read your article and I… decided it would be best for me to wait and see how things play themselves out. Howse asked if Beck’s apparent view that “we all pray to the same God” isn’t by definition false teaching. Cameron demurred a bit and reflected…

Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…angelical absurdities illustrate this nicely. If not for the questions The New Yorker’s exposé raises about apparent congressional ethics violations by North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, former chair of the far-right Freedom Caucus, it’s unclear how newsworthy many journalists would consider the events surrounding the discovery of an Allosaurus skeleton used in a dishonest “documentary” that then ended up as a star attraction at The Creat…

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…

Huckabee Launches Videos to Teach Kids About American Exceptionalism

By Lauri Lebo

…s created a series of cartoon history lessons for America’s children. In a news release announcing his new company Learn Our History, Huckabee says, “America’s youth aren’t excited about our past because they’re being taught history in a way that minimizes what has made America a beacon of hope around the world for over 200 years. Instead, history lessons today often focus on America’s faults. It’s impossible to overestimate the importance of givi…

You’re Crazy

By Daniel Schultz

…ry as playing with loaded guns or driving drunk. It is a perfectly legal, extremely safe clinical procedure. Complications can result, yes. So can problems in other areas, as well as regrets. But people take reasonable, well-informed chances with their health all the time. A doctor acquaintance elected to treat his testicular cancer with surgery alone, since radiation or chemotherapy would have damaged his immune system, putting him out of work fo…

Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…d of taking part in a rumble,” she says, oozing sanctimony. Sally is the Fox News viewer who sees footage of a burning trash can in Berkeley and concludes that all left-wing protesters are violent thugs. She exhibits all the willful obtuseness the right uses to muddy matters of fact and justice. She’s the worst. *** To my surprise, Lucy is the character I most want to be like right now. She’s a model for liberals in the age of Trump. It’s true tha…