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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

…raveling to another state to receive benefits and services there. As for mailing abortion pills (or contraceptives, for that matter), mail delivery is under the control of the federal government, not the states (thus, the U.S. Mail). State officials have no inherent authority to inspect mail or its contents. The purchasing and shipping of goods through the mail is also a form of interstate commerce, which is regulated by the federal government, no…

Trump the Totem: Like Other Fascist Leaders, Trump has Turned from Man to Symbol — And That’s the Danger

By Robert P. Jones

…, as we are. So I think they’ll set this straight…. It’s going to take a while … this will be overturned, guys, there’s no question about it, it’s just going to take some time to do it. Johnson’s boasts of personal relationships with and open partisanship among US Supreme Court justices is deeply troubling. It builds on the legitimacy problems the nation’s highest court is facing in the wake of the recent stories that Justice Alito flew flags repr…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…ions about the number’s translation. Some theologians suggest the number should really be 616, in which case, all eyes on Peoria, Illinois….

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…c, smothered under a featureless musical goo and carried off to further mutilations I will not relate here. Mr. Smisek, I am not a religious person. If I can be said to adhere to any confession, it is that primordial, preliterate one that has sprung forth everywhere ever since we beings were human: the covenant of sound. You and your associates have desecrated a work of transcendent beauty and blasphemed Music. I demand that you remove at once all…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…ing if the “alert” from the US side or the “fatwas” from various parties, will one day appear there and I will be stopped from entry. Once I came into Indonesia when my previous passport had only five months remaining before renewal. I don’t know how many countries have this stipulation —Saudi Arabia did — but there must be at least six months remaining. It doesn’t matter if you plan to stay two days, you need six months left on the passport befor…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…ess, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own—for the children and the children yet unborn. Might we, too, cause our own self-destruction because we buy into the fear and xenophobia infesting governments on both sides of the ocean? Airports are places where I feel my boundaries open to expansion, not contraction, because that is how I choose to encounter my fellow humans, and if necessary, death. For death is inevitable, anyway—…

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

By Sarah Posner

…Christian get-out-the-vote drive for the general election and beyond. Don Wildmon, the American Family Association founder, bankroller of Rick Perry’s The Response rally, and now-endorser of Gingrich, introduced the list of registrants at The Response to United in Purpose, writing at the time that “research has shown that it takes only 5 million voters to influence the outcome of an election. This is a do-able goal, and Champion the Vote is seekin…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…an focus on running their companies. Italy: Milan prepares shelter for LGBT people rejected by families The City of Milan is preparing to open a shelter for gay and trans youth rejected by their families; it will be part of a complex confiscated from the mafia and being redeveloped into a multi-use facility that will also include a home for Alzheimer’s patients. …

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

By Daniel Silliman

…McCain At 33 years old, Douglas McArthur McCain became the first American killed while fighting for the jihadist group ISIS. McCain was raised in mainstream American culture, a fan of Michael Jordan, “The Simpsons”and Pizza Hut. He reverted to Islam, as he described it, in 2004. “I must say In sha Allah,”he wrote, using an Arabic phrase meaning “God willing,”“I will never look back.”He began publicly identifying with militant groups in 2010 and tr…

Catholics Choose Conscience Over Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…nation as a whole. The headline grabber du jour is Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois, who, as Anthea Butler points out, disses the Affordable Care Act and all who support it. He plays the big faith card: “for those who hope for salvation, no political loyalty can ever take precedence over loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ and to his Gospel of Life.” This is reminiscent of a recent interview that Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia g…