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Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…one to (among others) Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Joe Miller of Alaska, and Christine O’Donnell of Delaware. You can bet that no matter how the numbers finally shake out in next month’s election, Barton and DeMint, and their views on “Judeo-Christian heritage” and “biblical law,” will continue to have allies in…

Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…nstead, they learned that those days are largely behind them. As I put it delicately at the time: “If you can spell Catholic, you are probably asking: how dare they go after 57,000 dedicated women whose median age is well over 70 and who work tirelessly for a more just world? How dare the very men who preside over a Church [church?] in utter disgrace due to sexual misconduct and cover-ups by bishops try to distract from their own problems by creat…

Akin and the God Factor

By Sarah Posner

…ermination to stand up to GOP pols who forever pay them lip service but rarely deliver the goods. […] And if he does win, he will enter the Senate next year not as some random wingnut dude from Missouri who was swept into office on a conservative wave in Missouri, but as Todd Akin, celebrity and Avenging Hero, who owes nothing to anyone other than his God, his family, and his loyal base. Yup. (UPDATE: In case you had any doubts, check out this len…

Why the World Needs Religious Studies

By Nathan Schneider

…ity. Exacerbating these is a common suspicion among scholars outside the field that religion in any form should’ve long since been excised from the curriculum. To make matters worse, the field faces critics from within: well-meaning but destabilizing attempts by religion scholars to rethink and reinvent the whole enterprise from the ground up, even to the point of unsettling its foundations. (Timothy Fitzgerald’s The Ideology of Religious Studies…

The Pope, the GOP, and the March for Life

By Sarah Posner

…which he made the unremarkable point that the kind of Republican who wins elections in, say, Alabama, likely would have something of a tough row to hoe in New York. “If they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York,” Cuomo said in a radio interview Friday. Cuomo defined “extreme conservatism” as being “anti-gay” by opposing same-sex marriage rights, opposed to abortion rights and favoring legalization of assault weap…

Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump: From Strategy to Spin to Straight-Up Bullshit

By Martin Jay

…contradicted by his public statements. For example, he seems to have genuinely believed that he watched thousands of Muslims celebrating after 9/11 on TV, or that he was an early critic of the war in Iraq, or that the Chinese created the global alarm over climate change. For this reason, many commentators have invoked the philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s famous analysis of “bullshit” to describe what Trump does when he plays hard and fast with the tr…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…will be advisable and to designate the place where the meetings are to be held; To ratify the election of members described in articles V and VIII; To determine matters for discussion at least six months before the Synod is to meet, if that be possible; To see to it that the material to be discussed is sent to those who ought to be concerned about the discussion of these matters; To set the agenda; To preside over the Synod personally or through s…

Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting

By Mary E. Hunt

…aggression, or even at the first harsh words, do [women] not put distance between themselves and the men who threaten…?” (p. 9). Let’s start by talking about economics and whether women can afford to leave. Nevertheless, the question is: Why do men act violently and get away with it, and what are we going to do about it? The final section is on women and religion. The much-needed feminist critique of Catholic structures, teachings, and policies i…

Without Health Care Reform We’ll All Die!!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…onciliation and redemption. Negativity and fear work—every successful evangelist or terrorist will tell you that. Just ask Jesus—good news is a hard sell—and the angry mob will kill you for even uttering it. A new poll confirms our love affair with the negative. A majority of people now believe all the negative myths about proposed health care reform measures. 67 percent of respondents believe that wait times for health care services, such as surg…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…ion. Obama and his speechwriters have made a brilliant move. They passionately promote the group bonding that conservatives love, but they’ve redefined the in-group to include all Americans. Though they use the language of religion to help make this point, Democratic strategists don’t insist (as Haidt does) that religion is nothing but group bonding. Rather, they link group loyalty with patriotism. That word has made many on the left shudder ever…