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Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…bt I’m unconsciously influenced by the way Republicans in my home state of Colorado recently killed a bill that would have allowed my son and thousands of other gays and lesbians to form civil unions—even though a majority of the public and the state legislature supported it. No doubt I’m unconsciously and deeply concerned not only about the GLBTQ community but about the sick, the unemployed, senior citizens, the homeless, the underfed, the undere…

Bishops Search for Condoms in Cookie Boxes

By Mary E. Hunt

…it was the organization’s public acceptance of a transgender child into a Colorado troop. Underneath those decisions lurks the fact that nuns, not bishops, were seen as normatively Catholic, and even though a quarter of all Girl Scouts are Catholic, they didn’t consult the bishops before doing the right thing. Who would, given the men’s handling of abuse cases? In each instance, the Roman Catholic Church is backing a concrete alternative. For the…

Pledging Virginity to Dad: A New Doc Explores the World of ‘Purity Balls’

By Jessica Valenti

…about American culture and politics. Filmmaker Mirjam von Arx follows the Colorado Springs-based Wilson family whose patriarch, Randy, invented purity balls. Von Arx focuses on one daughter in particular, Jordyn. (The Wilsons have five daughter and two sons.) Jordyn is college-aged but not in college. “I want to be a wife and a mother,” she says, “I would hate to go off and spend thousands of dollars on an education that I wouldn’t use.” She’s al…

Court Rules in Favor of For-Profit Employer Seeking Exemption from Contraception Rule

By Sarah Posner

Today a federal court in Colorado granted a preliminary injunction to Hercules Industries, and the family members that own it, enjoining the government from requiring them to comply with the contraception coverage requirement under the Affordable Care Act. Hercules and the Newland family, which says it operates its company according to Catholic principles, had sued to have the requirement declared unconstitutional, but the court ruled only with r…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

…e. A Montana woman took a crowbar to a controversial piece of artwork in a Colorado gallery that allegedly depicts Jesus during a sex act. See for yourself here. In South Carolina a woman claims Jesus is depicted in her MRI. Mixing scripture reading and prayer with exercise may be the best way to get the elderly to work. President George W. Bush is reading a new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, according to Laura Bush. As the November elections g…

TLC Premieres Polygamy Reality Show Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…it is . . . polygamy?” (Really? You’ve never seen women do collective childcare without being married to the same man?) The show opens with shots of goatee-sporting blonde Kody Brown wearing his best pin-striped suit and sitting at the wheel of his white Lexus convertible, then cuts to shots of Kody Brown bopping around under a big white tent at a wedding reception, encircled by a passel of blonde wives and blonde kids, as Brown’s voice-over into…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…race or religion, had known mental health issues. Likewise, a substantial number of the men on the Brady Campaign list were not previously identified as having psychological problems, but were “driven” to violent rage by financial and relationship crises. So we cannot name any specific cluster of circumstances that prompts such behavior, though we do know that ready access to firearms is a factor. All of which is to say, yes, the intimate enemy,…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…for a meeting in Providence’s new Freemason-themed hotel, I got a surprise phonecall from Father Isaac, the cassocked gentle giant who serves as Eastern Orthodox chaplain there. We hadn’t known each other well while I was a student, but I’d always liked him. Upon hearing I was in town, he thought he’d ring me up, and what followed was certainly the longest conversation we’d ever had together. He wished me well, but much more, he thanked God in a d…

Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

By Michael J. Altman

…ork on scripture memory? There’s an app for that. You can even use your iPhone to tweet the latest execution news, like the Utah Attorney General. But for others the internet is a place for anti-religious rage. Over at the Huffington Post, they have debuted a new discussion between religion and science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science continues to seek dialogue between science and religion. University of Colorado psyc…

Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…uty and almost no potable water, are the interlocking towns of Hildale and Colorado City. The polygamists there who rejected Warren Jeffs in the 1980s reorganized under the name Centennial Park. The Centennial Park Action Committee, or CPAC, is made up of dynamic, vibrant women dedicated to decriminalizing polygamy: think Big Love. They wear modest but modern clothing; they are often educated and work as teachers, accountants, and office managers….