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Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown

By Sarah Posner

…iminations, eye rolls, and a regular playing of the victim card. That, at least, was what Gallagher brought to the table. Gallagher is insistent upon the primacy of natural law; that God’s intent for marriage was for procreation and absent that possibility, marriage isn’t marriage. (She offered an exemption for infertility, something about which she has previously written, unconvincingly.) The audience was largely in disagreement with her, but NOM…

What’s the Problem With a Good Placebo?

By William Grassie

…tening illnesses, CAM therapies and their spiritual cousins do provide at least a kind of relief for suffering patients, and maybe much more. The More Elaborate the Ritual, the More Effective the Placebo Is there a way to systematically individualize, ritualize, and harness psycho-social somatic interventions as a supplement to standard treatments? This would require clinicians to customize the context of health care to the culture and beliefs of…

Glenn Beck Hijacks It’s a Wonderful Life

By Lauri Lebo

…nd active commitment to “social justice,” something that Beck has said are code words for Communism and Nazism. Look, Frank Capra wasn’t exactly known for his subtle messages. Yet, somehow, Beck manages to reinterpret the movie through an unregulated free-market ideological Ayn Rand prism and message of Christian conservatism. For real? Either Beck has never watched the movie, or he’s so conservatively deluded that he thinks Mr. Potter is the hero…

Canadian Courts Consider Decriminalization of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…to determine the constitutionality of section 293 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which criminalizes the practice of polygamy, in light of sections of the Canadian Charter of Freedom pertaining to religious and civil liberties. Polygamy-practicing Mormons began fleeing to Mexico and Canada in the 1880s, after US Supreme Court Justices upheld the conviction of George Reynolds on polygamy charges in 1879, declaring polygamy an “odious” “Asiatic” prac…

Louisiana Citizens Horrified that there’s Evolution in Science Books

By Lauri Lebo

…chers and school districts to use “supplemental textbooks,” which are just code words for creationist and pro-intelligent design materials. Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, co-founder of Louisiana Citizens for Science and one of the creationist movement’s most damning critics, said she believes the complaints are merely a tactic to get disclaimers (Warning: These books teach evolution!) added to the tex…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…us just keeps saying gutsy things—like when he told a roomful of people, one of whom was Governor Haley Barbour: Few politicians today use outright race baiting, but we see the symbols some use and the phrases they utter and everyone knows what the code is—what really is being said. Oh, and he’s also called attention to how voter ID laws endanger the voting rights of poor and elderly people, and was named a Champion of Justice by the Mississippi C…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…is out. Africa is wide and vast, but the places where Islam took root (at least initially) are the places where education, intellectualism, moral imagination, and spiritual creativity took root first. These established a wide-ranging change that affected all aspects of the society. We still talk romantically about al-Andalusia. But what impresses me most was not the tumultuous political history per se—nor whether Muslims, Christians, and Jews live…

Francis the Jesuit: a Philosopher-Pope?

By J. Michelle Molina

…e the full thirty-day version of this 16th-century meditative practice at least twice, and has repeated the shorter, eight-day version every year since he entered the Society of Jesus in 1958. Yet self-fashioning in the Jesuit mode is not the historically-bound system that “16th-century meditative practice” might imply. Rather, the Ignatian Exercises are philosophical, a Catholic interpretation of the ancient imperative to “know thyself.” To co…

Why Conservative Evangelicals Won’t Let Us Pee in Peace

By Daniel Schultz

…e cis-het patriarchy and want the world to receive it as a universal moral code. They would be just as happy if you didn’t notice that they can only provide one particular interpretation of the gospel, rather than an objective and unchanging truth. To boot, it’s an interpretation that isn’t even fully shared by other conservative religious groups, nor is it without controversy even within the Southern Baptist Convention. Take, for example, the que…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hat extent Congress should be legislating our bedroom behavior is another beast entirely.) This new, mutant form of “religious liberty” does indeed deserve scare quotes. When Mississippi lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a law that determined what kind of intimate relationships are worthy of protection, they also lost the ability to claim that they were seeking to protect faith-based views broadly speaking. Laws like this have less to do with making…