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The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…l data, and at 19.6 percent in its earlier general survey. (The difference appears to have more to do with polling methodology than with voting habits.) The Public Religion Research Institute, in a study published on November 15, pegs the religiously unaffiliated at 16 percent of the electorate—and they figure that 78 percent of the category went for Obama. Crucially, like Latinos, the nones are young. One in three Americans under 30 are religious…

Do Not Have Sex with This Man

By Sarah Sentilles

…they ask, “But don’t you want babies of your own?” Others take a different approach. “You two are exactly the kind of people who should be having children,” they say, conspiratorially, and I wonder who they think should not reproduce. Their words, with their echo of eugenics, make me uncomfortable. I went to see a doctor about pain I was having in my lower back. “You’re getting older,” he said. “Do you plan to have kids?” “I’m not sure,” I said. “…

Why I’m Grateful for 2012, The Rapture, and other Millennial Delusions

By Jay Michaelson

…ignificance is not support for communities of color or fairness in the tax code, but rather alignment with cosmic forces of enlightenment, it makes some sense. Post-millennial lefties tend to be really scary, or really wacky, or both. In pop culture, they inhabit films like Fight Club or the latest Batman flick: utopian idealists who will use any means, including violence, to bring about the transformation they seek. In practice, though, they tend…

HHS Issues Proposed Rule Expanding Religious Exemption for Contraception Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…efs; and is a non-profit organization as described in the Internal Revenue Code. Religious organizations protested that this four-pronged test would only exempt houses of worship, but not, say, a church that served people of different faiths through a soup kitchen. Under the new proposed rule (which is still subject to a public comment period), an employer seeking an exemption would only have to meet the forth prong of the test, thus widely expand…

Rome vs. the Sisters

By Marian Ronan

…s dedicated to serving the needs of the sick and the poor, the new Vatican Code of Canon Law cloistered them all, imposing rigid rules that undercut their ministries. As the century moved on, however, relations between the Vatican and the sisters seemed to improve. In its effort to respond to the horrors of the twentieth century, the Vatican ordered the sisters to become better educated, to update their rules and habits, and to begin meeting toget…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…d appeared the year before, and Mark Zuckerberg was feverishly writing the code that would become Facebook. YouTube was just an idea, and wouldn’t appear online in any form until 2005. John Paul did embrace social media as it existed then. He was the first pope to use SMS to send out a daily message to Catholics in 2004, after brokering a deal with Verizon—one of the first troubling commercial agreements between the Vatican and communications comp…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…sions seem so petty. (Read the whole thing here. If you’re like me, you’ll applaud and resolve to be a better and braver person.) For this, according to Molpus, he received “a number of death threats and a host of bitter and sick correspondence.” Six years later, in Molpus’ unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, his opponent Kirk Fordice belittled him for having given the speech. Yet those who care about racial reconciliation in Mississippi called his s…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…-time, rolled his eyes at the rezoning idea. And indeed, Gittrich’s zoning appeal was shot down by the City Planning Commission in March. Newman’s plan instead centers on the same death-by-a-thousand-cuts strategy of obstructionism and nuisance complaints that they’d waged against Tiller’s clinic for years before the murder. They had already begun this winter, with public challenges about whether Burkhart had the correct permits for her renovation…

Francis the Jesuit: a Philosopher-Pope?

By J. Michelle Molina

…th key protagonists in the narrative: his own flaws, or sins. Accidents happen in this life of reiterative mediation. As Bergoglio himself stated in the days leading up the conclave, “It’s true that when you get out into the street, as happens to every man and woman, there can be accidents. However, if the church remainsclosed in on itself, self-referential, it gets old. Between a church that suffers accidents in the street, and a church that’s…

Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…ntrol law became law. So we’ve got a lot of really foreign concepts in our code, and what a refreshing, refreshing thing it is to have a longtime member of Congress have these ideas of restoring the constitution and restoring the integrity of the Second Amendment. So it comes to the time that was advertised for my being here. It says, Dr. Ron Paul, defender of the Second Amendment, awarded for his many years of defending the Second Amendment and p…