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New York Marriage Equality Set to Begin, Minus Two Clerks

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…erks around New York State are gearing up for a busy Sunday as the state’s new marriage equality law goes into effect. The state is expecting such a flood of same-sex applicants that day that New York City has even implemented a lottery for 764 slots for Sunday. Two clerks who won’t be busy will be Rosemary Centi of Guilderland and Laura Fotusky of Barker. Both women have quit their jobs, saying granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples viola…

New Hampshire Cuts Off Funding for Contraceptives for Low-Income Women

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ed Parenthood continues to provide (privately-funded) abortion services in New Hampshire, even after it lost the state contract to provide contraception to low-income women. Here’s what the post says: Why does Planned Parenthood cut contraception and cancer screenings first? Answer: because it’s been all about abortion all along. Hooooookay. Let’s back up. Planned Parenthood of New Hampshire does more than one thing at once. It does one thing (pro…

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

By Christopher Douglas

…vel’s muscular engagement to the emergent Christian Right, showing how the new publisher Crossway was interested in promoting the idea of “cultural conflict”—an early version of today’s culture war—between an aggressive secular humanism and evangelical identity. Indebted to supernatural horror and thriller conventions, it was an “allegory for the social concerns of the Religious Right, who feel like they’re losing control of America. It’s the anxi…

American Jews: From Holocaust to New Age Hasidism?

By Martin Kavka

…the ex-Chabad Hasid who has become the intellectual leader of the Jewish Renewal movement that melds Jewish tradition with New Age thinking. It is Schachter-Shalomi who, styling himself “a Jewish practitioner of generic religion,” has blurred the boundaries between the Jewish and the non-Jewish worlds through halakhic creativity in response to intermarried couples, through mobilizing the tensions inherent within kabbalistic concepts to develop a n…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…Israel’s security,” Netanyahu’s government announced plans to build 1,600 new homes in a Jewish settlement in an area it claims around Jerusalem, but which the rest of the world recognizes as the occupied West Bank. Though Netanyahu claimed to have been blindsided by the announcement, Biden condemned it. Over the course of the week, the disagreement escalated. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a 45-minute phone call to Netanyahu. Israeli am…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nation, it is impossible to know whether opening communion would encourage newcomers or turn away existing members, but it is certainly an issue worth following. The End is Where? It goes almost without saying that mainline Protestantism is in an extended period of at least numerical, if not spiritual, decline, and many commentators have taken the occasion of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church—still an important symbol of normative Ame…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…nment social policies Right-wing apocalyptic Christians who fear a Satanic New World Order Nebulous conspiracy theorists who fear a secular New World Order Nationalistic ultra-patriots concerned that US sovereignty is eroding. Xenophobic anti-immigrant white nationalists who worry about preserving the “real” America. These grievances are interacting in a global economy often eager to accommodate corporate interests. And now we add in the fact that…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has brought millions of people into new or renewed political activism. But many of them are struggling with questions about where and how to invest their energy. I hope my book provides some clarity for them and a path forward—an understanding that our fight encompasses all of us against the 1 percent. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? An effective organizer agitates people…

“1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little-Known History of Palestine

By Shaul Magid

…to take root in Palestine. But that same social context also gave rise to new Arab newspapers such as El Carmel and El Palestine, around which coalesced a collective Palestinian identity. These papers openly challenged the Zionist project (not the “Jews”) and warned the Arabic-reading public of an ensuing confrontation. As Rashid Khalidi argues in his book Palestinian Identity (2009) Loeterman suggest that Zionist and Palestinian identity emerge…

Global Warming Denialists the New Creationists?

By Lauri Lebo

…an academic freedom law. Now it seems the reality of climate change is the new target. Resolutions similar in wording to the anti-evolution bills have cropped up in state houses questioning the validity of climate change and calling for a “teach the controversy” approach. It’s an interesting strategy. By expanding their argument to include climate change, they’re saying that they aren’t anti-evolution—they’re just anti-scientific dogma. “There is…