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Obama’s Pick Sotomayor Derided by Conservatives For Empathy

By Paul Gorrell

…atives immediately attacked Obama’s requirement, stating that empathy was “code” for a judge who would legislate from the bench (a position satirized by one observer who noted that Jesus himself, a noted proponent of empathy, would have been opposed by the GOP as well). They’ve taken a fresh new idea and wrapped it in the lexicon of the same old culture wars. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell stated that Obama wanted a judge with “perceived s…

Is God a Winning Strategy for Democrats?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…Christians are better than Christianity. They employ their personal moral code, choosing the moral morsels from the Bible that square with their contemporary sensibility. The Bible does not portray Jesus as a liberal powerhouse. Or at least, not solely as the man liberal Christians claim. We need look no further than hell to prove this point. Americans possess an unparalled degree of religious liberty, but Jesus promises eternal torture if they e…

Why is Liberty Institute Still Defending Phillip Monk?

By Rob Shryock

…port was released, Monk openly appeared (in possible violation of military code) at the Values Voters Summit for a panel. The Liberty Institute’s Jeff Mateer put his hand on Monk’s shoulder and praised him, saying, “We’ve gotten phone calls from military members who are undergoing discrimination…and with the exception of him, those folks that have called us have all wanted to remain anonymous. Sergeant Monk, to his credit, is willing to stand up.”…

Well, It Would Have Been a Good Religion Question…

By Sarah Posner

…Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights North America wrote, American Jews are rightly outraged by Hoffman’s arrest, but they’re quicker to object to Israel’s human rights violations when they’re directed at other Jews, rather than at Palestinians or African refugees. Would I like to see a full discussion of all that? Of course. I’m being realistic (sort of) here. If the candidates had, in my fantasy world, been questione…

Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…ympathetic to the advertising. But we don’t take a position on this except promoting dialogue. At Sojourners, we’ve decided to have a safe place for dialogue and even disagreement on our staff and in our constituency. That’s interesting, since the Believe Out Loud ad could be best interpreted as . . . promoting dialogue. Sojourners, so far, has been silent on the Rev. Robert Chase’s piece we published here. In the court of public opinion Twitter,…

Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ture? The answer seems relatively clear. The Church is growing in South America, in sub-Saharan Africa, and is even making significant inroads in the Far East. And what these emerging Catholic populations want is a culturally conservative theology (recall the uproar in these same regions when the openly gay Anglican bishop, Gene Robinson, was confirmed). The code word for most of that uproar is “anti-Modern.” So the irony of Catholic anti-Modernis…

When Conservatives Turn Revolutionary

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…went awry. The reason that Napoleon is still such a vexed and vexing historical figure may be found here. He changed the map and he changed the political ideology of European politics. There was much in what he achieved to warrant our admiration: legal and political reform (the Napoleonic Code), emphasis on good governance, egalitarian virtue, human rights, and the like. If Napoleon was an emperor, then he was an emperor unlike any other before h…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…members of an independent Bible church.” Though Palin grew up in the Pentecostal denomination, Assemblies of God — the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination and the church that John Ashcroft belongs to — a McCain-Palin spokeswoman told Newsweek that she does not consider herself a Pentecostal, but attends “different churches” in Alaska. Among them is the nondenominational evangelical church, Juneau Christian Center. The campaign hesitated to i…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…nd Rapinoe in the “Equality” commercial for condemning prejudice against African Americans, immigrants, women and LGBT people. However, they should also use their formidable voices to advocate for the workers who make Nike shoes in Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Honduras and elsewhere. A public championing of the rights of those workers—alongside thousands of college students, professors and activists–might more effectively prod Nike to finally “just…

The Secret History of Easter

By Joseph Laycock

…by comparison. These kinds of arguments are politically useful to anti-clerical movements like the French Revolution (and Lenin, who became a mythicist after reading Arthur Drew’s The Christ Myth). But they’re especially popular with right-wing Protestant conspiracy theorists, such as Jack Chick, who claims that Catholic communion wafers are actually “death cookies” that take their shape from Egyptian sun worship. The Dawkins Foundation’s claim a…