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Eternal Culture War: Pat Buchanan on Notre Dame and Sotomayor

By Bill Berkowitz

…ive spokesperson on cable television news (including co-hosting Crossfire, CNN’s groundbreaking shout-fest), he can always be counted on to stir the pot. Shooting from the Lip Sometimes his tone harkens back to those heady days in 1992 when he collected nearly 3 million primary votes and raised more than $14.5 million in campaign contributions. These days, however, he’s doing his share of pot-stirring on MSNBC, where on any given day you can get r…

Gay Republicans Ask for Social Issue Cease-Fire

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…push their own agenda—particularly as it relates to social issues.” A new CNN poll shows that the authors of the letter are right in saying that the election was not a mandate for the Republicans. Of those polled 70 percent said their vote was a “rejection of the Democrats” with only 17 percent saying they voted to give Republicans a mandate. But, mandate or not, social conservatives say they still expect Republicans to put social issues in the f…

Bishops Claims Fail to Derail Marriage Equality in Uruguay

By Peter Montgomery

…tholic hierarchy has less influence in Uruguay than in neighboring states. CNN in October called Uruguay “the current standard-bearer on progressive policies on the continent” after the legislature voted to legalize first-trimester abortions. Marriage equality also won a victory in Mexico this month, though it may take a while before the impact of the ruling is felt throughout the country. Last week, the Supreme Court of Mexico ruled in favor of t…

Uganda Shelves Kill the Gays Bill—For Now

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…, and the US State Department condemned the bill on Thursday, according to CNN: “No amendments, no changes, would justify the passage of this odious bill,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. “Both (President Barack Obama) and (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) publicly said it is inconsistent with universal human rights standards and obligations.” The good news is, of course, that failure to pass the bill in this parliamentary…

Declaring a Theological State of Emergency: Trump’s Ignorance Must Not Be Ours

By Mary E. Hunt

Yesterday, on CNN’s State of the Union, Trump reiterated his call to bar Muslim immigration to the U.S. and predicted that his fellow presidential candidates would soon come around to his position. This prompts me to declare a theological state of emergency. And I urge religious first responders to step forward. His anti-Muslim rhetoric has caused Muslims to fear for their lives and well being—and it runs counter to the American Constitution on m…

End Times on the Gulf Coast

By Lauri Lebo

…l’s Diner, I notice that every face is turned to the television behind me. CNN was airing live footage of a flash flood. A teenage girl caught in the raging and muddy current was clinging to tree branches. I ask, “Arkansas?” “No,” someone says. “Oklahoma City.” Ten inches of rain fell on the city in less than 12 hours, killing one person. The monthly average for June is half that. It’s only the latest in a series of flash floods. In Tennessee, 18…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on, who infamously sparred with gay marriage advocates and Piers Morgan on CNN; Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican; and Crystalina and Jason Evert, founders of the Chastity Project, an effort “focused solely on promoting purity.” The letter also included non-Catholic signers such as megachurch pastor Rick Warren, a Protestant Christian and head of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, a…

The Sad Incoherence of Jeb’s Abortion Position

By Patricia Miller

…by contrast, has embraced the position of the Catholic hierarchy, telling CNN that he opposes exemptions for rape and incest: I believe all human life irrespective of the circumstances in which it came into being is worthy of the protection of our laws. I recognize this is a tough question. It’s a very difficult question. And I understand that. Believe me, I do. But by the same token if I have to weigh the two equities here, I’m always going to e…

From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion

By Patricia Miller

…e abortion. When asked in 1997 about attacks on abortion clinics, she told CNN: “I personally think it’s the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.” In 1998, McCorvey was was converted a second time, this time to Catholicism by Rev. Frank Pavone, the founder of Priests for Life, who is no stranger to political stunts. Her dual conversions straddled the n…

NOM’s Gallagher: “Don’t Call Me a Bigot!”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of gay and lesbian operatives. Instead, she is simply discovering herself on the wrong side of history as the world begins to understand how ridiculous it is to bar two consenting, unrelated, adults from forming a civil contract called marriage. A new CNN poll shows 51% of Americans believe gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry. No one has to call Gallagher a bigot or shove her to the margins. By clinging to her outmoded ideas about marriag…