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Huckabee Teams Up with Citizens United to Promote Fetal Personhood

By Sarah Posner

…rratives. As with other Citizens United films, such as Gingrich’s agitprop against Islam, America at Risk: The War with No Name, the experience of a single person is turned into the exemplar of the only just and moral compass. In America at Risk, Zuhdi Jasser was portrayed as the “good” Muslim sounding an alarm that his fellow Muslims were easily duped into extremism by the ready availability of radical islam and a scarcity of moderate voices like…

Mad Men’s Matt Weiner, Warrior Against Woo

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…n of the era. They invented sex. And drugs. They have a view of it that is a child’s view. So I wanted to see, what would it be like if you were an adult, and had lived through some fairly interesting things like World War II and the Great Depression and then this came along. And there was tremendous change, and the clichéd word turbulence, and free love, and things like that. But there’s free love in the 1920s; there’s free love in the 1930s; the…

Why Was Suspicion Over “The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven” Ignored for Years?

By Rachel Wagner

In 2004, six-year-old Alex Malarkey and his father, Kevin, were in a horrifying car accident. According to his father, things looked so bleak at the scene of the accident that they were advised to call the coroner for Alex. The boy was in a coma for two months, and it wasn’t really expected he would survive. But Alex did survive, and eventually related a startling tale that brought hope and wonder to his family – especially to his father Kevin, w…

Why Science Needs “Neurodiversity,” Autism Included

By Andrew Aghapour

…agic bullet cures to more meaningful modes of assistance and care. (The Lovaas model, for example, involves education and behavioral training within customized environments.) Why Science Needs Neurodiversity Silberman also tells the story of a second historical group: the progenitors of bad autism science. If Neurotribes has a villain, it’s child psychiatrist Leo Kanner, who is credited with having discovered autism in 1943. While posted at John H…

God May Weep For Church Sexual Abuse, But Bishop Chaput Prefers to Bark

By Anthea Butler

…ponse to a question about the attendance of Cardinal Justin Rigali at the papal mass, Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia testily told reporters that, “In some ways, we should get over this wanting to go back and blame, blame, blame. The church is happy to accept its responsibility, but I’m really quite tired of people making unjust accusations against people who are not to be blamed—and that happens sometimes.” Some Bishops never learn. I’ve been c…

It’s Not the Thought that Counts: Tragic Case Highlights Flaws in “Religious Liberty” Debate

By Kara Loewentheil

…reme version of the vaccination situation, in which a refusal to vaccinate a child for religious reasons may subject the child—and other children or immune-compromised people—to harm. It’s a very strange concept when you think about it. We criminalize child neglect because of the harm it causes to the children, not because we want to punish people for having the desire or intent to neglect their children, regardless of the outcome. So if the negle…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…litical pandering and religious influence have seen countries such as Gambia and Nigeria introduce laws which further restrict the human rights of their LGBT populations….Freedom of expression and freedom of association are integral in the fight for LGBT acceptance, but in many African states (and beyond) these fundamental human rights are heavily restricted…. Before the continent’s activists can bring about the decriminalisation of homosexuality,…

What’s Behind the “Common Sense” Rhetoric of Bathroom Bill?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…type of “common sense” is asserted as simultaneously deriving from and separate from a divine creator. This slippery logic makes it particularly pernicious. It’s not hard to find examples: At an April gathering in Raleigh, reality TV stars and identical twin brothers David and Jason Benham took to the mic to express their support for HB2. David Benham first assured the crowd, “This is not forced belief, this is common sense.” But about fifteen se…

Donald Trump visits a black church. It goes about as well as you would expect.

By Daniel Schultz

…much as he was using them. Maybe more. Butler started her close with this alarming kicker: It is also worth mentioning that this recent black church visit was likely the suggestion of [former Celebrity Apprentice contestant Omarosa] Manigault, who is savvy enough to know that sending Trump to a social justice-oriented black church is out of the question. By aligning with black prosperity churches that are focused on economics and that downplay ra…

Sorry, National Review: “Religious Freedom” Bills Do Permit Bigotry

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e efforts to defend “religious freedom” aren’t really about discriminating against LGBT Americans. Since she used a Salon piece written a day earlier by a former colleague of mine, Nico Lang, to illustrate how liberals are “maliciously mischaracteriz[ing]… FADA and other religious-freedom protections,” it seems only fair to issue a point-by-point response to the specious claims made in the National Review. It is deeply ironic to claim, in the piec…