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Mourning a Goddess: Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011

By Susan Henking

…course, about much more than AIDS and gay rights. She stood up against the Iraq war, for example. In this she reminded us all of the relation between war and much else we need to fix about the world in which we live. And, of course, Elizabeth Taylor took with good humor the many drag versions of “Liz” that stood up alongside Carol Channing and Ethel Merman and Judy Garland and Liza Minneli — and later Celine Dion and others, in shows across the na…

Catholics Across the Globe Reject Vatican’s LGBTQ Cruelty — Others Blame the Sock

By Mary E. Hunt

…us go. One million German-speaking Catholic women from five organizations signaled their view that same-sex couples be eligible for church blessings. New Ways Ministry reports almost every day on a new group stepping forward, most recently the Association of Catholic Gay Pastors in the Netherlands. The mere existence of such a group and their clear statement that they will ignore the Vatican’s pronouncement is a harbinger of things to come. All o…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…own social milieu to part with cloak and coin for the benefit of the dazed Iraq war vet with two pit bulls at the highway underpass down the road from church. It’s possible, then, to read the lingering significance of “Good Samaritan Jesus” for the religiously unaffiliated as a yearning for a more ethically engaged, prophetic Christianity. It does seem to be the case that some of the largest and most vibrant Christian congregations are those with…

Why Obama for the Nobel? A Nudge? A Reminder?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…a Peace Prize to a man currently conducting two wars, and considering the significant up-tick and expansion of one of them, was lost on no one. So if the political aim of the Prize was to weigh in on Iraq or Afghanistan, as Limbaugh suggests, then it will likely have as little impact as the previous awards I mentioned. But what else might it be? The Nobel Peace Prize has also gone to other persons and other organizations—like Martin Luther King J…

Ahmadinejad’s Call For “Compassion” is a Cynical Display, Critics Say

By Ebrahim Moosa

…after Ayatollah Khomeini accepted a United Nations-brokered ceasefire with Iraq (then a US ally under Saddam Hussein), the leftist Mujahidin-i Khalq Organization, bitterly opposed to Tehran, launched a devastating attack that razed the town of Islamabad-e Gharb. With full logistical and air support from Iran’s then menacing neighbor, this attack alone caused Iran’s casualties to soar to an estimated 55,000 people. After this incident, Ayatollah Kh…

Masturbation, Evolution, Or National Security?

By Sarah Posner

…detail at TPM) are not only comical, but cause enough not to vote for her. Signs of prehistoric thinking and all that. And speaking of prehistoric thinking, O’Donnell has subscribed to anti-evolutionary views (h/t Brad Plumer). More evidence, but she has a lot in common with about half of the American public. As I reported this morning, in 1995, as a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, O’Donnell asserted that women serving in combat dama…

Oh My God…

By Gary Laderman

…ing to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and justifying the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the ambivalences and valences of Abraham Lincoln’s invocation of God during the torturous American Civil War is miles away from current President Barack Obama’s easy evangelical sensibilities about faith in his God. God is My Homeboy Of course beyond all of these vexing theological questions on the political scene are the numerous ways the term is…

The Sacred and the Dead: I Love You More than Words Can Tell

By David Vanderveen

…senior contractor for the State Department, training and leading domestic Iraqi and Afghani special forces units, and me with various businesses that I built all over the world. The best part about traveling was always coming home…until one of us didn’t. In April 2008, Mark was killed in Iraq. The river brought him back to us, and we laid his bones by the waterside. My favorite verse from the Bible is Genesis 1:2, “…and the spirit of God was hove…

Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

By Ben Lorber

…itary, the 44-year-old Fox News host served as a National Guard officer in Iraq and Afghanistan and served at Guantanamo Bay, the detention operation known for its flagrant human rights violations whose expansion he’s called for. Hegseth’s severe lack of qualifications for the Defense Secretary position is matched by his fervent commitment to the ‘war on woke’ in the military, unquestioning support for Trump, and predilection for Crusader iconogra…

By the Way: McCain v. Huckabee

By Randall Balmer

…ows very well how to do it. Consider his unflagging support for the war in Iraq, or his embrace of George W. Bush after Bush had savaged him and his family in the Republican primaries in 2000. Or his speech this week before the Conservative Political Action Conference. Expect even more impassioned statements in the months ahead about the necessity of the “War on Terror,” the importance of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and the evils of ille…