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Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize

By Frances Kissling

…aid) to the same right of conscience that women with their own money or private insurance have. And, on every other issue related to reproductive health and rights, he voted for women. How did this happen in this big, very pious Catholic family? Theology played a part, certainly, but Kennedy boys by and large did not go to Catholic schools. They went to the top prep schools and to Harvard. Ted spent only the eighth grade at a Jesuit prep school an…

Soldier Hot Line Draws Calls Over DADT Repeal

By Lauri Lebo

…phone calls and an email. But the article indicates that those who run the various nonprofits that help soldiers achieve conscientious objector status expect a floodgate of calls if Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is formally repealed. The good news is that the groups don’t think there is legal basis for the claims. In the “don’t ask, don’t tell” cases, Ms. McNeil concluded that there was no legal basis for a conscientious objector claim. The legal standard,…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…s. Much is at stake as this political era throws the relationship between evangelicals of color and white evangelical institutions into question. In the following Q&A, SueAnn Shiah, an artist and filmmaker who identifies as a queer Taiwanese American evangelical, attempts to square white evangelical support of Donald Trump with her spiritual community, a white church in a conservative Presbyterian denomination in Nashville, Tennessee. I spoke to h…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…bsite from which he claimed to get his information. He pulled out his cell phone: “Freddie!” he said to an unseen interlocutor. “Will you find me what that website for the saucer, the prophecy, for tomorrow night – the 14th?” He paused, then yelled: “THE SAUCER! All I want is access to the information so I can give it to someone else.” He then recited the web address of a YouTube video. It was my own searches, however, that turned up Goodchild’s w…

Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

By Sarah Posner

…strategy. (One of the trailblazers of religious political consulting, Mara Vanderslice, also founder of the Matthew 25 PAC, is now a staffer for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.) Griffith had used the services of the Eleison Group, whose principal Burns Strider had been instrumental in forming the House Democratic Faith Working Group and was a consultant to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. During the 200…

The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…ion about his bank account, credit cards, home address and social security number—was illegally retrieved, and that he was subjected to surveillance and phone-tapping. The church, meanwhile, countered that Behar’s article was a slanderous, sensationalist attack on a legitimate religious organization and part of a much longer history of misunderstanding and persecution that this religious minority has faced since its inception. In keeping w…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…l education. The black mass was cancelled and 1500 Catholics marched on Harvard Square. Conservatives have constructed a narrative of the event as a righteous defeat of the forces of evil. This narrative has inspired others to mobilize against self-declared Satanists 35-year-old Adam Daniels of Oklahoma City has been a leader for a string of short-lived Satanic groups including The Church of the IV Majesties and most recently Dakhma of Angra Mainy…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…in the Pentecostal church, and left the church for a period of time in conflict. Both because I knew I was a woman called to minister and ministry was not available. Was this before COJIC? And because I knew I was a same-gender loving person, and there was no room for me in either of those iterations of myself, either myself as gay or myself as a woman clergy. So I got involved in social work, particularly aid to the elderly. Which is still a ver…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…p the phone and call Wuerl and ask him to extend the penalties to the DC diocese. They are about as likely to be successful as the Catholics who have petitioned the Vatican to excommunicate such Catholics. The Vatican has carried a big stick, but excommunicated no one….

Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose

By Bill Berkowitz

…ice media outlets, she now has been surrounded by a veteran group of conservative supporters. Last September she was a featured speaker at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, where she told the audience: When I walk into Planned Parenthoods across the country, I am flattered to see my picture on the wall. It is because to Planned Parenthood, I am—quote—a ‘known anti-choice extremist.’ This is one of the better compliments I have rec…