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Gingrich, Historian, Religionist, Fails Own MLK Weekend Test

By Sarah Posner

…would be solved. But when Gingrich appeared at a town hall at the Jones Memorial AME Zion Church in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday, he did not flash his Christianist talking points. Surely he knew what sort of religious angle would inspire here, being a student of American history, an aficianado of its religions (because, after all, he also knows how dangerous Muslims are and what Jews think), an expert on the nation’s essential Christian…

Controversial “Bishop of the Poor” Dies at 86

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…d was present in the 1968 gathering of Latin American bishops in Medellín, Columbia, represents a generation of priests that truly heeded the call of the Council to immerse the Church within the modern world. He represents a generation of priests who embodied the teachings of the Gospel deeply engaged in its context, the horrific suffering of Indigenous peoples at the hands of wealthy landowners. Born in 1925 in Guanajuato, Mexico and ordained at…

South Carolina Fight Club

By Sarah Posner

…base of the platform where Gingrich would give his address and met Raymond Moore, a school custodian from just outside of Columbia, “He doesn’t take anything from anybody,” Moore said about Gingrich. “He’s a bit of a tough guy, and I think America needs that right now.” As Wayne Slater puts it in the Dallas Morning News, the gospel in Gingrich land is “Our mano can beat up your mano.” The religious right hasn’t coalesced comfortably around a presi…

Komen, Planned Parenthood, and Conspiracy Theories

By Sarah Posner

…’ A number of cancer-related educational and advocacy organizations donate money to Planned Parenthood, or otherwise support abortion or immoral embryonic stem cell research. So it’s best to support organizations that do not.” As with Republican efforts to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood’s family planning services, the right’s crusade against the Komen Foundation was not just based on opposition to abortion, but on religiously-mot…

Democratic Women Walk Out of “Freedom of Religion” Hearing

By Sarah Posner

…d, “were silenced today.” Holmes Norton, an attorney, said the continuing “moral” objections to the coverage requirement are eliminated by the Obama accommodation of last Friday, which she called an “extraordinary win-win” because the objecting institutions will not have to pay for the coverage because that cost was shifted to the insurance companies. Now, she said, their continuing objection “is to women who work for them getting contraception.”…

The Sad Saga of a Compromised Rabbi

By Shaul Magid

…In this case, language such as “tribalism,” “fascist,” “Israel-hater” and more egregious ad hominem comments floated from keyboards to the world of cyberspace. This is not new. We can read transcripts of battles in the US Congress in the 19th century or accusations back and forth in the Zionist Congresses in the early 20th that would make our hair stand on end. When one gets into this business, either as a professional or as a moonlighter, it com…

But Are They “The Good Muslims”?

By Haroon Moghul

…n power. So we try to figure out where they fall in the continuum of what Columbia University’s Mahmood Mamdani has called the good Muslims and the bad Muslims. That way, we’ll know who to work with, and who to shun. Except it doesn’t work that way. The Muslim world challenges many of the easy assumptions we make about secularism, liberalism, and democracy. Frequently, it was secular autocracy that limited democracy, access to education, and eco…

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

By Beatrice Marovich

…oth consume and remain morally chaste? Doniger suggests that, perhaps, the most common and lasting effect we can see—as reverent humans attempt to deal with the moral ambivalence of eating meat—is that they make lists. They attempt to rationalize this ambivalence, to find a way of controlling its power. The Laws of Manu are filled with long lists of things you can and cannot eat (mushrooms, solitary animals), things you can and cannot do with anim…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…rnational, the country’s largest organization of ex-gay ministries and the movement’s most public face, began in November of last year with suggestions that Exodus was in the midst of a financial crisis and an identity crisis. Once a darling of Christian Right donors, Exodus has been suffering since the recession, laying off staff, burning through money, and facing the possibility of a shutdown. Ex-Gay Watch blogger David Roberts reported on an em…

Anti-Science Bill Passes Tennessee House

By Lauri Lebo

…being taught.” Those “controversial” theories would include, “Biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.” The bill’s language is based on sample legislation proposed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes intelligent design. The Senate version is scheduled for the Senate Education Committee on April 20. In March, the Sensuous Curmudgeon predicted that of the record numbe…