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Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…m not alone in this idea of marriage. Another interesting statistic shows that divorce rates are lowest in “blue” states—those states that generally tend to vote for liberals or progressives. The lowest divorce rate can be found in Massachusetts, where gays and lesbians have been able to marry since 2004. The differing views of marriage between “red” and “blue” states are at the heart of those statistics, according to Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-d…

Stephen Broden, Beck’s Black Robed Regiment In Action

By Sarah Posner

…ation was built upon.” Broden also appears in Maafa 21, a propaganda film that claims that reproductive rights are a conspiracy to commit “black genocide.” The film has been promoted by the Frederick Douglass Foundation, which describes itself as a a Christian organization. (It also supports Allen West, running for Congress in Florida, who writes for a south Florida biker magazine, in which he has written that “the upcoming election is the time to…

In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

…robust expression of adult sexuality might be good for the soul). Beyond that, there is the fact that the Catholic Church itself is one of the all-time leading instigators and purveyors of anti-Jewish sentiment, though this circumstance has been blessedly altered over the past half century. But, again in the words of my congregant, himself a passionate participant in Catholic-Jewish conversation, these new circumstances have given rise to a confu…

Why Aqua Buddha Ad Failed to Harm Rand Paul

By Joanna Brooks

…a’s long national history with sexualized bondage in the form of slavery.) And what about secret paganistic societies with odd behind-closed-doors rituals? That too is classic Americana—just as American as the Freemasons. What really breaks the good Christian folks code of conduct is not engaging in questionable behavior but rather exposing the indiscretions of other good Christian folks, especially after they get established and powerful….

Final (Probably) Thoughts On The Aqua Buddha Ad

By Sarah Posner

…kered past with keeping the faith. He keeps it now (or so they think) and that’s all that matters. Salvation is the only required redemption. Testimony above deeds. That’s why the hypocrisy argument — that Paul now professes to be such a committed Christian that everyone should follow Christianity instead of civil law, so why did he mock Christianity in early adulthood? — doesn’t work, with social conservatives, at least. Of course Kentucky is a d…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…friends, who urged her to go to the police, or her priest, and recognize that what had happened to her was rape. To Jeb Barrett, Denver Director of the Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), a peer counseling group that Birge turned to after the attack, her story follows classic lines of abuse of authority. “There are many cases where very charismatic men develop very close and controlling relationships with the people given to the…

Louisiana Citizens Horrified that there’s Evolution in Science Books

By Lauri Lebo

…Forum founders. This move is all part of an ongoing broader strategy, one that the LFF, which is affiliated with Focus on the Family, has been behind since the beginning. Darrell White also told the Advocate that the textbooks don’t comply with the anti-evolution law known as the “Louisiana Science Education Act,” which the Family Forum helped write and successfully lobbied for in 2008. The LSEA instructs educators to promote “critical thinking sk…

Canadian Courts Consider Decriminalization of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

In a case that may have wide-reaching influence, the Supreme Court of British Columbia today opened deliberations in a constitutional reference case to determine whether a small group of fundamentalist Mormons living in a remote B.C. community called Bountiful may practice religiously-motivated plural marriage without fear of prosecution or conviction. Before a courtroom packed with legal experts, scholars, civil libertarians, and child rights ad…

Glenn Beck Hijacks It’s a Wonderful Life

By Lauri Lebo

…fetime of good works and 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…

What’s the Problem With a Good Placebo?

By William Grassie

…based healing practices, but contemporary research points increasingly to what we might call the deep semiotics of health. It seems, minimally, that hope helps to heal. And ritualized hope in groups heals more effectively. Recognizing the Signs and Symbols of Health Semiotics, of course, is the study of signs and symbols, but it really has nothing to do with the fictional “symbologist” character played by Tom Hanks in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code…