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The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…se their clientele. Now, if you run a facility – religious or otherwise – that offers its space to the general public, that’s a whole ‘nuther matter. General public means “general” public, whether they agree with your beliefs, or you agree with theirs. Public is public – whether you’re a B&B, a religious facility renting space or a lunch counter. If religious beliefs are more important than opening your facility to the public then become a private…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…grich “tough guy” dynamic Sarah Posner wrote about here. I’ve often noted that Romney doesn’t code traditional “tough-guy” masculine, which I believe is attributable to Mormon culture. 5. Religiosity subsumes ethics. Despite last-minute revelations of marital infidelity that could have impacted religiously-identified voters, Gingrich soared. That too is a curious South Carolina outcome that begs for clarification. I’ll be talking about “God and Po…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…f course, this does nothing to assuage the critics of the practice. “Yes, that’s lovely that you think so. But outside of Pretend Happy Land, robbing women of the vote is disempowering, and I can’t even believe we’re having this conversation.” Anyway, the municipal government, for many compelling practical reasons, wants the church to serve as the polling place. The church insists that it cannot, in good conscience, allow its sincerely-held teachi…

Santorum Spokesperson Confuses “Radical Environmentalism” with “Radical Islamic” Policies with “Theological Secularism”

By Sarah Posner

…t be fooled by Santorum’s defense that he believes Obama when the president says he’s a Christian. Listen to the world salad Santorum and Stewart dropped onto the national airwaves. Anyone steeped in the “Christian worldview” (including Stewart’s old boss Bachmann) would fully understand that code as “Obama doesn’t govern from a ‘Christian worldview.’ And you know what that means: he must be a secularist, or an Islamist, or some other enemy of Chr…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…could be the impact of academia falling? Well, I would make the argument that the other structures that I’m going to talk about here had the root of their destruction because of academia. Because what academia does is educate the elites in our society, educates the leaders of our society, particularly at the college level. And they were the first to fall. What we have here, as Joe Laycock notes, is a meta-narrative of cosmic conflict between the…

Shutting Down the Vatican…Website

By The Editors

…orted this morning that the Italian branch of Anonymous, those hackers best known for attacks on Scientology, decided to send a message to the Catholic Church by shutting down the official Vatican website (still not responding as of this posting). What are the Church’s misdeeds, according to these code crusaders? They go back to the selling of indulgences in the 16th century. And more recently, of course, there’s the Church’s interference in Italy…

Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ore friendly to “religion” (read: Christianity) than the Republican Party—whatever that even means. More importantly, attempts to convince Americans of Democrats’ religious bonafides lead once again to the erosion of the party’s stated values. After all, “religious” or “friendly to religion” is essentially code for deference to the conservative Christian values of exclusion and exceptionalism. If Democrats wish to embody their espoused values of i…