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Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…Rep. Shuler clearly stated that he would not support any legislation that ‘classified’ the LGBT population as a class of citizens with protected rights. When asked what reason he had for not wanting to give LGBT citizens protections under the law he answered, ‘My beliefs.’” She continues, “North Carolina deserves to have someone in Washington who does not discriminate against a segment of the population he or she represents due to his or her rel…

How Evangelicals Pick Presidents

By Sarah Posner

…didn’t speak to them but rather from them, he was reviled by the corporate class. And the religious right leaders took their cues from those criticisms, and in many cases refused to give Huckabee the nod. I’ve suggested that Michele Bachmann may very well receive a similar treatment—she’s a “fine Christian gal,” but I have serious doubts that the GOP will nominate a woman at the top of the ticket. Perry, on the other hand, is emerging as a favorit…

A Short Goodbye

By Lauri Lebo

…winter watching events unfold in Wisconsin, as teachers and other working-class people stood up to the cynical corporate-led attacks on collective bargaining rights—one of the last few ways non-rich folks can still level the playing field in this country. The day that farmers rolled their John Deere tractors into Madison in solidarity with the hardworking people who educate their children, I knew I wanted to join this fight. In Pennsylvania, the…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…ad a salacious history is evident both in Diderot’s frequently republished classic and in the fact that portions of the Curb and Manahan collection were also subsequently published in the men’s magazine Forum. Though it served a role as a prop in a film entitled Damned if You Don’t as early as 1987, Immodest Acts is neither anti-Catholic, a work of contemporary advocacy, nor of salacious interest. Rather, Immodest Acts was (and is) a work of histo…

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

By Frederick Clarkson

…well. The Geneva Conventions state that in war, everyone is entitled to individual burials, identified if possible, and in accordance with their particular religious tradition. Several of the Geneva Conventions also govern matter of the proper identification and burial of those killed in war, including individual burials in accordance with religious tradition of the dead if that is known. Finally, it is worth mentioning that SSP’s eye witnesses c…

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…that students should be taught “both sides of the debate” and that science classes should present ID alongside evolution. Unemployed physics graduate Bobby Henderson wrote an open letter to the school board, supporting their decision to teach multiple perspectives but insisting that students also be taught a third perspective: The possibility that Earth was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. As Henderson put it: I think we can all look forward…

Tea Party Rhetoric: Literal Slavery Not So Bad

By Julie Ingersoll

…ay most Christians do) is a far cry from equating paying taxes with the actual slavery. Comparing slavery to anything experienced by contemporary mainstream middle-class Americans is absurd, and as long as tea partiers continue to do it they’ll be accused of racism….

Of Sports and Social Justice: An Interview with Rebecca Alpert

By Susan Henking

…selves in order to maintain the social programs that have allowed a middle class to flourish and the poor to at least subsist, and we have failed miserably to plan for the future of our planet eroding the hopes and dreams of the next generation. I am not a total pessimist, and I believe this state of affairs will and must change. I only hope to see it in my lifetime, and to continue to feel blessed for the privilege that as an academic and rabbi I…

As Debt Crisis Escalates, Tea Party Acts in Bad Faith

By Joanna Brooks

…building (and the warehousing of thousands upon thousands of young working-class people of color) replaced actual economic planning as the state’s response to economic restructuring and the loss of our manufacturing sector. The Tea Party response to the nation’s economic situation is to hobble federal power and use national debt as a political gun to the head of the president. It’s nihilism masquerading as end-times revivalism. It’s just plain bad…

How the Religious Left, or Whatever It’s Called, Failed at the Budget Big Game

By Sarah Posner

…and banksters profiting off the backs of not just the poor, but the middle class as well. Meanwhile, God will sort things out after the economy collapses. That is, if He’s watching. At the heart of all this, as Joanna Brooks pointed out this morning, is an anti-state, that is, anti-government ideology. And it is the role of government — not just the impact on the poor and vulnerable — that the religious left has been hapless in either making a cas…