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Democratic Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Makes Faith 101 Misstep

By Daniel Schultz

Elizabeth Warren was on CNN the other day, and did a crackerjack job expressing how her faith and politics fit together. Meanwhile, South Bend Indiana mayor, first openly gay candidate running in a major party’s primary, and general whiz-kid Pete Buttigieg was on The View, doing…not so well. https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1109213160555184128 Let’s get a couple of quick points out of the way before we get down to the central issue. First, towa…

“Living in Favor, Abundance, and Joy” (Unless You’re Gay)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bundance and, well, betterness. But when he’s on the other end of the microphone, being asked questions about homosexuality, you can see the discomfort wash over him. The ladies on The View cornered him on the subject back in 2009, and his evasive answer was that homosexuality was not “God’s best” for such people. He retreated to the tired “some of his closest friends are gay, and that they tend to be ‘some of the nicest people in the world.’” Jus…

Why Do Southerners Call Mormonism a Cult?

By Joanna Brooks

…here are people out there like Richard Mouw, who wrote a very nice post at CNN this weekend. Mouw is very careful in how he uses theological language. He says, effectively, let’s be rigorous and not just throw words at one another. It should be noted that anti-Mormonism is also a term that gets used carelessly in Mormon communities. Folks who differ on one point or another, or criticize the tradition at all, sometimes get called “anti-Mormons” by…

Sotomayor is Sworn in: Latina Wisdom Personified

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…was comforted by other sights: Latinas of my mother’s generations glued to CNN watching the confirmation hearing; T-shirts with the words “wise Latina” on them sold on the Internet; Sonia Sotomayor’s face. Why her face? As a child the only Hispanics that were my role models were in entertainment: Charo and her “cuchi-cuchi” on The Love Boat, Gloria Estefan singing “Conga,” Ricky Ricardo drumming to “Bablu- Ayé.” As an adult: Shakira shaking her hi…

The Shoe Thrower: What Bush Didn’t Understand

By Mark Woodward

…someone “wave” with not all his fingers held up. Not exactly. I watched a CNN video clip of the “shoe throwing” and the presidential response with a group of Muslim and Christian graduate students at the Center for Religious and Crosscultural Studies at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. We watched the film over and over for nearly half an hour, all of us roaring with laughter. Many of us, for once, felt sympathy for President Bush,…

Obama Unites Right and Left—In Fear

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…abortion on demand. Americans are against most abortions.” According to a CNN poll taken in August 2008, 53 percent of those asked said they were “pro-choice” while 44 percent described themselves as “pro-life.” So, no, Americans are not against abortion or overly troubled by it. But, once you’ve stepped into the fantasy world of the right wing, it’s hard to leave it. Pastore joined in with his own vision of unicorns. I’m very optimistic. If the…

Enjoy this Original “Mazel Tov” Cocktail Recipe at Your Election Night Party

By The Editors

Those darn Jews and their funny words. On CNN Sunday night, Trump surrogate Scottie Neil Hughes accidentally confused the word “Molotov,” the ironic namesake of a small, homemade bomb, with “mazel tov,” a Hebrew term used to wish someone congratulations. Naturally, “mazel tov cocktail” went viral. So, in order to honor Hughes’ malapropism, RD consulted with a pair of Seattle bartenders to produce this original cocktail recipe (such a cocktail in…

Mad Men’s Matt Weiner, Warrior Against Woo

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…story of your parents.’ You know, or your grandparents. I don’t have a judgment on them necessarily—that sounded really judgmental…maybe I do have a judgment…” Yes you do, Matt, and it’s ok. I will attempt to hold on to your less rosy, more historically informed view while I watch the new CNN series The Sixties, which, according to press materials, will include testimonials from “people whose lives intersected with destiny” and “infuse new relevan…

Biblical Capitalism, Tony Perkins Edition

By Sarah Posner

Via @OccupyCatholic, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins writes at CNN that Jesus, indeed, told his followers to “occupy” until he returned (Luke 19:13), but what he really meant was to be a free marketer: But just what does Jesus’ order to occupy mean? Does it mean take over and trash public property, as the Occupy movement has? Does it mean engage in antisocial behavior while denouncing a political and economic system that grants one the…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…life. US public opinion hasn’t changed since the fall of Roe; if anything, numbers in support of reproductive rights have risen. Indeed, the issue of abortion rights has remained a losing strategy for the Republican Party since the end of Roe, even in deep-red states. In every major election since, where abortion has been an issue, Republicans have lost. In ballot initiatives and local elections up and down the country—Kansas, Kentucky and Virgini…