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South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Killing Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…e made in the committee hearing on the bill last week. “If you look at the code, these codes are dealing with illegal acts. Now, abortion is a legal act. So this has got nothing to do with abortion.” Here is the bill in its entirety: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: Section 1. Th…

Alums Speak Out Against Anti-Gay Christian College

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to the school newspaper describing the “doubt, loneliness, and fear” they felt while attending the school. One hundred fellow alums signed on. Instead of circling the wagons and strenuously defending the “homosexual practice” forbidden in its code of ethics, the school is reaching out. 51 of the school’s 92 faculty members responded, seeking “forgiveness for ways we might have added to your pain.” “We’re hoping to do a better job of talking to and…

Art(ful) History in Texas

By Lauri Lebo

…board to adopt supplemental materials, since last week the board voted to delay indefinitely the purchase of new science textbooks that include the changes McLeroy has lobbied for. Because new science textbooks are estimated to cost $350 million, the board opted to bridge the gap between the old and the new science standards with supplemental materials. The board will review and select the materials next spring. Using supplemental materials may be…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…ed good citizenship” because she was a socialist. Inexplicably, socialist Helen Keller remained on the same list. 7. A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Conservative: Students are required to learn about “conservative heroes and icons” like Phyllis Schlafly, the Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority. No similar standard is required for “liberal heroes and icons.” 8. History, Rewritten by the Losers: When studying the writings of President Abraham Linc…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…get involved in police actions with astonishing regularity. We intervene selectively, we make huge mistakes, but we insist our intentions are good. I recall something about a certain road being paved with good intentions, but it must not be an American road, since it’s so hard to get those paved these days. The United States was able to eliminate Libyan air defense systems in days, and this wasn’t even a full-scale war. Qaddafi has been reveale…

Why I Am Still a Christian

By Diana Butler Bass

…not-religious” and the “church alumni club.” And those who might be completely post-religious and just want to read a good story about interesting people in the past. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I always want my readers—of my books, blogs, or articles—to say, “I’ve never really seen the world from that angle before.” It is more than information; I always hope to provide some transformative vision into…

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

…think tank in Washington, DC (full disclosure: I am currently a Visiting Fellow in Religion at Third Way.) He was joined by a panel of leaders representing this emerging center: Dr. Ron Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action and the Evangelical Environmental Network; Rich Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals and leader of the Creation Care movement; and Sam Rodriguez, founder of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Co…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…say and the many angry responses to it. The president of the university, Joel Seligman, said that Gandhi’s statements about Israel and Jewish identity were “fundamentally inconsistent with the core values” of the university and requested his resignation. For many readers the posting’s parenthetical remark about a culture of violence in which “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” was the most offensive line in the essay. Also troubling to m…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…miracle any of them do.” Historical or Hysterical Revisionist? While Mansfield may feel that he was sold short by Politico.com’s Ben Smith, others, who have spent a great deal more time with Mansfield’s work have found it both troubling and in some cases lacking in depth. Describing a USA Today column by Mansfield titled “The Founders got it right: Religion now rests in a tortured place in society today, thanks largely to unfortunate and misguided…

Margaret Cho: God Bless You, Fing Fers

By Lisa Webster

…dy for some serious War on Culture…er…culture war. So there’s Christian as code-word for ‘evangelical.’ Like when Republican politicians say it. And there’s Christian meaning Protestant, as opposed to Catholic. And there’s Christian the way a missionary might mean it, (as opposed to heathen?). And there are those “anonymous Christians,” or involuntary Christians…was that Rahner who devised that category? Does anyone outside of seminary or grad sch…