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What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…certain items within their borders (as is already the case federally with lottery tickets). A Republican-controlled Congress could then impose a nationwide ban on the mailing of abortion pills or certain contraceptives. (Republican-controlled state legislatures have already demonstrated a willingness to enact questionable legislation for nothing more than its intimidation factor.) Which brings us back to Anthony Comstock. In 1878, the Supreme Cou…

The Most Embarrassing Losers Ever?

By Sarah Posner

…to his own boss’ and network’s longstanding commitment being on permanent standby for the Rapture. Sure, Robertson lost to George H.W. Bush — but Bush beat him by recognizing the need to cultivate the very base that Robertson had done so much to mobilize. A lot of conservatives find the latest iteration of their base – the one that thinks a centrist president has us on the road to socialism and that Muslim seditionists are poised to subvert the C…

Time to Get Rid of “Gay Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…TV who can’t let go of one piece of trash without having a psychologist on standby to talk them down. Again, though, even amidst the subtle rhetoric, I find myself agreeing with Goeke. Christ does call us away from “clinging” to things of this world. Sexual orientation, however, is not something I “cling” to—it is simply a part of me, like my hand, my hazel eyes or my brown hair. Those who “cling” to something are those walking in this world tryin…

Evangelicals in Moral Panic Over Exvangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…cals are really all they have left. Well, that and the silly old apologist standby of “You really just left to have all that sweet, sweet, unbiblical sex, didn’t you?” Their protestations thus come across like one big, petulant Principal Skinner meme: “Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong.” Russell Moore, who recently left his position as head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm for a public theology positio…

RDBook: The End of the World As We Know It

By Gabriel Mckee

…rray of ways to bring about the end of the world. There’s the old Cold War standby of nuclear war, of course, but there are also deadly viruses (Stephen King’s “The End of the Whole Mess”), runaway pollution (Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag”), and general economic collapse (Jonathan Lethem’s “How We Got In Town and Out Again”). In Cory Doctorow’s “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth”—probably the anthology’s best story—it’s a synchronis…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…eadership Conference; Personhood USA, the national organization pushing ballot measures declaring fertilized eggs persons; and Champion the Vote, the get-out-the-vote project of United in Purpose, the non-profit organization funded by Silicon Valley venture capitalists which, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, “is using sophisticated data-mining techniques to compile a database of every unregistered born-again and evangelical Christia…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…tate bribery. We would have to buy new, full-price tickets to Iran. On the phone with JetBlue’s customer service line that night, my righteous fury dissipated quickly. Could JetBlue really be to blame for bad weather, or a mechanical problem, or whatever system error had made our flight impossible? Don’t I benefit regularly from this massive travel infrastructure that, like Lady Justice, doles its punishments out blindly? I accepted $100 in travel…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y artist who lives in a hipster district of Paris and plans to cast his ballot for Le Pen. While nobody knows how far Le Pen’s supporters will carry her in the April 23-May 7 vote, several years of polls have shown the National Front is now more popular with the LGBT voters who make up 6.5 percent of the French electorate than it is with straight voters. LePen’s Party, which includes a number of openly gay officials, still pledges to roll back the…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…er the years and was celebrated by the religious right. “The Bible tells a lot about how to run a business if we just read it and apply it,”Cathy said. He died at 94. David Eugene Sorenson An elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, David E. Sorenson was executive director of temple building at a time when the church built more temples than ever before. Under the direction of Gordon B. Hinkley, who authorized a smaller, less expen…

A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…an any other white guy in the 1950s. He was a man of his time. There was a lot of discrimination in our country and a lot of prejudice against Jews. But there were a lot of Jewish people among the early Scientologists, and they have always had a lot of Jewish members. So, he was never overtly hostile toward Jews, at least not that I am aware [of]. But psychiatrists and psychologists are a stand-in for anything evil, and they are viewed in much th…