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Masturbation, Evolution, Or National Security?

By Sarah Posner

…Donnell has proved herself to be a sexual puritan, but the masturbation clip shouldn’t be re-told with too much glee about discovering “the crazy.” But does she still think women serving in Iraq or Afghanistan endanger our national security? That seems like, uh, fertile ground for determining just how far her views on sex and sexuality go. …

The Religious “Right” to Denounce Homosexuality

By Sarah Posner

…next front in the religious right’s military culture war, in which it has promoted overt proselytizing by both chaplains and officers, and in the process, portrayed the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as epic confrontations between Christianity and Islam. Now, with its military evangelists in place, the religious right is taking one of its civilian crusades — to paint homosexuality as a religious war between the equal rights of sexual minorities…

Feisal Abdul-Rauf Still not Providing Leadership on Park51

By Hussein Rashid

…aising the issue of national security. This tactic is what got us into the Iraq War. It reeks of authoritarianism and fear-mongering. Rather than defending himself from a liberal, rights-based perspective, he capitulates the moral and legal high-ground and positions himself as a modern political conservative. As Americans, if the point is to not give into terror by preserving our rights, Abdul-Rauf’s demand that we give in to fears of terrorists a…

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…publicly repudiate “the unconstitutional policies of President Bush in his promotion of the USA Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps and eavesdropping, and the deceptive manner in which he led America into an undeclared, unprovoked, and preemptive war against Iraq;” have protested against abortion, and have publicly resisted “‘Seeker-Friendly,’ and ‘Purpose-Driven,’ and ‘Emerging Church’ church growth movements.” He has, Baldwin told me, some 300 pas…

America’s First Mormon Televangelist

By Joanna Brooks

…no actual responsibility for devising practicable solutions to incredibly thorny problems like financial market meltdowns, runaway health care costs, or ending the costly and ill-conceived wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yes, it is in fact easier to pray on your knees (as Beck exhorted his audience Saturday) than it is to wrap your head around credit-default swaps….

In Defense of Feisal Abdul-Rauf

By Hussein Rashid

…ine with liberal critiques. And Abdul-Rauf’s opinions on our engagement in Iraq are even shared by Ron Paul, a libertarian/conservative politician. He has become a focal point for the opposition to Park51 because those maligning him use him as punching bag for a proxy attack on liberal thought generally. Some Christians on president’s faith advisory council are under similar attack because they disrupt a narrative of a faith conflict between Chris…

Judge Rules Law Prohibiting Picketing Outside Military Funerals Unconstitutional

By Julie Ingersoll

…they began moving the demonstrations to the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. In their view, God had caused the deaths as judgment over American policies that increasingly recognize rights of gays and lesbians. Recently Westboro Baptist made the trip from the Midwest to the west coast to protests to at Comicon in San Diego where they were met with a mocking counter-demonstration. At issue is the right of families of the deceased…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…rican.” Thus before long the “War on Terror” and the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, ‘democratic,’ ‘American,’ and ‘Israeli’ were, in the lexicon of the ADL, three synonymous terms. To return to another contested lexical item, the dreaded “A (for Apartheid) Word,” Polakow-Suransky devotes the book’s epilogue to the Israel-South Africa comparison. He acknowledges that the Israel-South Africa “apartheid analogy is an imperfect one… Unlik…

Irony Thick in Bush Interview with Focus on the Family

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s left more than 48,000 people dead in Afghanistan and 1.6 million dead in Iraq. “I think the role of a leader is to understand there are differences on the issue of promoting a culture of life,” he says. “In other words, (we need to) convince people that we’re a more noble society if we honor life, without somebody castigating somebody based upon a differing opinion.” Then again, the only “life” that matters to Bush and Focus on the Family is tha…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.” 4. Ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So much for “blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9) or Jesus’ admonishment to “Put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword” (Matthew 26:52). War can never fulfill our values of “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” 5. The ongoing persecution of gay, lesbian, bisexual,…