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The Nitty-Gritty of the Senate Abortion Amendments (King Herod Aside)

By Sarah Posner

…care without the Nelson amendment as a dire threat to Christianity and the republic. The National Right to Life Committee called the proposed Casey language “an exercise is cosmetics – like putting lipstick on a legislative warthog.” The Susan B. Anthony List is running an ad against Casey in Pennsylvania, entitled, “Who Shall Live?” The narration ominously warns that Casey is “poised to vote in the Senate for a health care bill with federal fundi…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…conservative media machine, from Live Action News, to Newsbusters, to Free Republic, ran with Mason’s story of being attacked by violent pro-choice advocates, pushing the narrative that violent assaults against pro-life Americans are on the rise. The Daily Beast reacted on the day of the press release by publishing its third story on the Masons in the space of a week, complete with the same home vandalism photos the anti-abortion outlets were runn…

Rand Paul Is Not Anti-Authority

By Sarah Posner

…e story of Rand Paul’s college hijinks in GQ, took to the pages of The New Republic (where Jonathan Chait started the handwringing in the first place) to denounce the ad as the “most despicable of the year.” If that’s the case, then Zengerle’s own reporting falls into the same category. In his TNR blog post, he complains that “no candidate over the age of, say, 30 should be held politically accountable for anything he or she did in college—short o…

Religious Right: God Should Kill Health Care Reform to Save America from Herod

By Sarah Posner

…We, black and white, brown and yellow, rich and poor, urban and suburban, Republican, Democrats, and independents, come together and rise against the spirit of Herod, a culture of death and moral relativism. We need your kingdom come and thy will to be done. Let this nation once again adhere to the very tenets of our republic, one truly committed to life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, in Jesus’ name we pray. Now we know what Rodriguez mea…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…ely an extreme version of normal American supremacism, one that explicitly promotes and heightens the U.S.’s routine practices of empire. But it matters greatly whether the American empire tries to work cooperatively and respectfully with other nations instead of conspiring mainly to dominate them. In Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Middle East as a whole, the legacy of George W. Bush is not very good, and Obama has an overabundance of leftover c…

A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy

By Caroline Matas

…c to Ms. to the Atlantic have called “the war on women” being waged by the Republican Party in general and the Trump campaign in particular. (Of course, one might argue that many of the earnest political beliefs shared by evangelical women actually stem from these same misogynistic roots—but we’ll come back to that later.) These women and their progeny are Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s mission field. Du Mez, both a practicing Christian and a scholar of A…

Is Darwin Responsible for the Chimp Attack?

By Gretchen Koch

…remely endangered. They’re found living in the wild only in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and compared to the numbers of chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, very few bonobos live in zoos. As closely related to humans as chimpanzees, bonobos are slighter of build, with large ears and prominent brow ridges. They also differ from chimps in that they have a reputation for being a much more peaceful species, which appears to be due mainly to two…

Pat Robertson Gaga for Gbagbo

By Sarah Posner

…rican Center for Law and Justice’s activities in Zimbabwe (where ACLJ also promotes recognition of a “Christian nation”): The Zimbabwe outpost of the ACLJ isn’t Robertson’s first foray into Africa. Earlier this year, prosecutors in the war crime trial of former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor alleged that the televangelist had lobbied the Bush White House on his behalf in exchange for lucrative gold mining contracts—a claim Robertson denied. And i…

A Church With a Hole In Its Heart: An Excerpt from Peter Manseau’s “One Nation Under Gods”

By Peter Manseau

…t in this valley has been regarded as sacred since before the birth of the republic of which it is now a part; it has been revered as the physical nature of the spirit world since before the Spanish missionaries arrived with their own notions of embodied divinity; it was holy even before the first Europeans looked on the people of an unmapped continent and declared that they must know nothing of God. Though it has a long and eclectic spiritual his…

Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal

By Ira Chernus

…and as a Jew with relatively newly-minted political rights, he also had to promote the democracy of the Third Republic against its ultra-nationalist conservative critics. Of course democracy could so easily lead to laws and values dictated by the masses—the same rude mobs calling for Dreyfus’ blood in the streets of Paris. How, then, to harmonize free thought with devotion to the highest moral values? Again, education was the answer—schools that…