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House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rdless of whether the House chooses to intervene.” If the Senate doesn’t approve the reallocation, and Pres. Obama rejects it, Boehner might not get the money he’s looking for—so much of Boehner’s moves to placate the anti-marriage equality crowd remain up in the air. The first case Boehner wants his new attorney to tackle is Windsor v. United States which involves a lesbian couple who had been together 44 years before Thea Spyer died. Edie Windso…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…or the grace of God, there go I. Of course, if you are more concerned with profanity than with the profane conditions our people live in there’s something morally wrong with us all. I chose to go to the streets because I could hear my neighbor cry, “I can’t breathe,” and I was saved. I pray that you too will find your way to the altar of activism. I call on you to open your doors to the tear-gassed, disrespected neighbors that you might be saved t…

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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mething that the religious right appeals to when they can no longer defend procreation as the reason for excluding gays and lesbians from marriage. Complementarity posits that men go with women because “Tab A” is mean for “Slot B.” You can’t have two Tabs and two Slots together since there is no “natural” fit. Duke University women’s studies professor Kathy Rudy has written in her book Sex and the Church that the focus on complementarity makes sex…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…investigations into parents who support their children in accessing age-appropriate gender-affirming medical care. They started with a state CPS employee, referred to as “Jane Doe,” who has a 16-year-old transgender daughter (“Mary Doe”) and says she feels “betrayed by my state and the agency for whom I work.” In light of this development, Texas has unequivocally become ground zero for the nationwide assault on trans people being carried out by t…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…e you had no other choice but to be with them or against them. The entire “pro-life” and “pro-choice” paradigm makes it seem like if you aren’t on their side then you are for death and against God. That’s a winning strategy. People have been silenced by that strategy. What I’ve learned from my faith organizing is that it’s only when you ask people individually that you find out there are way more people who support a woman’s right to make decision…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…y to suggest how someone coming after me might narrow this choice. I would prefer a lot more interactive communication as the preparations go along. I also hear from friends that they’ve had better communications before departure; so the right company goes a long way for the ‘before’ part. I’ll ket you know about during and after. White I just folded all my clothes for the hajj. Most of them are new, a few gifts came of late, so I have pants and l…

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

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…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 crack was discovered in the Sherman Minton bri…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…d really, why not an atheist school? As Chris Mooney wrote over at Science Progress in response to the same Times profile: “Dawkins really, really, really thinks he’s right about things.” Assuming that’s the case, why not teach children the truth? I mean, if it’s true? Isn’t it good to know the truth, and isn’t it our duty to pass the truth on to our kids? Yes, but apparently the greatest virtue—that children should not be indoctrinated—now trumps…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…pection, coupled with a courageous openness to adventure beyond our doorsteps, was turned to fear and loathing by ambitious and opportunistic corporate and political leadership. Is it possible something as profane as the 2008 campaign for president of the United States might return us to the sacred path to the achievement of true democracy? I have my transistor radio once again to my ear….

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

By Tom Davis

…s. What I found is a life that defies both our coarsest stereotypes of the priggish preacherman and the conventional wisdom among today’s self-styled progressive religious leaders that finding “common ground” with uncompromising opponents is the best path to change. In addition to Moody’s work detailed above—most notable perhaps for the way in which he showed great leadership by following and learning from women, and not by lecturing and telling t…