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Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

…of the social justice movements (especially around worker justice issues) used Yiddish as an organizing language but spoke “American.” The conceptual vocabulary of the union movement and the socialist movement was embraced by the Jewish participants in those movements; and continued to be used when those Jews started their own organizations, such as the American Jewish Congress. During the seventies (which was, for all intents and purposes, when…

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Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

…Germany. Americans, he said are being “trampled” by the “secular left” because churches and pastors have “stopped defending the truth fearlessly.” Hagee said “We as a people need to become bold and aggressive.” “This is my mantra to my congregation and to America,” said Hagee. “Vote the Bible.”  More specifically, he said, it was impermissible to vote for the Democratic Party because it supports “homosexual marriage.” Charisma publisher Steven Str…

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Rick Santorum Figures Out the Feminist Plot to Create “Phony” Abortion Exceptions

…an to grill meat in his own backyard. (Ostensibly, as I recall, it was because of the sexist construction of male cooking as public performance and female cooking as private duty. In actuality, it was because we hate men with all of our little shriveled-up cold cold hearts of tar, and we want to force them to consume Diet Coke and petit-fours shaped like Kotex, simply out of spite.) Then the business meeting started, after which we planned to enjo…

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Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

…er, and religion. It would be very revealing, I think, to see data that focuses on the intersection of religion, class, age, and gender. It might even shed some light on the Newt Gingrich “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 infidelit…

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Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown

…e gay, and then engaged in a fully justifiable rant about the church sex abuse scandals. Gallagher’s chief protest as self-appointed martyr, an article of faith in the religious anti-gay movement, is that LGBT equality spells a lack of freedom for religious people, an effort to “repress and marginalize” them. Yet her own most unseemly moment — and there were many — was NOM’s distribution of a sheet of paper about Catholics for Equality, “In Their…

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Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence

…one to violence. Many Muslims are also discriminated against, not only because of their beliefs, but because of their skin color and gender identity. Black Muslim Americans in particular are still regarded as outsiders even though the history of the United States is also the history of enslaved Black Muslims. To designate White nationalists as domestic terrorists—that is, people who planned and perpetrated acts of violence in order to further the…

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Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

…to embarrass and exploit those who are subject to police harassment and abuse. They have the potential to cause more harm to the very people they are purported to protect. Mandating body cameras for police officers is an understandable response to the murder of Walter Scott—many family survivors of police shootings believe body cameras might have prevented Scott’s death—but their neutrality is far from given. The “miraculous” objectivity of video…

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Catholic Pro-Choice Leader: Democratic Party Has “Turned Its Back” On Poor Women

…explain how they would deal with the issue. “Maintain the status quo” was code for “apply the Hyde Amendment.” Although pro-choice groups believe the Hyde Amendment is unjust and unfair, they agreed to this “status quo” in order to get health care reform passed. But now, under the Senate version of the bill — still unreasonably opposed by the right — “the status quo has not been preserved,” said O’Brien. He said that President Obama had promised…

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“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

…n, and demanded that girls style their hair wavy—not straight or curly—because “wavy hair is attractive and becoming—it causes you to focus on the woman’s face instead of her body.” Gothard’s approved wavy hairstyle is meant, she said, “to attract men to your bright eyes, which will attract them to God, instead of your body.” Eliza elaborated on how she was required to live under her father’s authority, even in adulthood. “Girls should be serving…

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Democratic Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Makes Faith 101 Misstep

…s) that the religious left exists, and explains away the religious right’s use of power on a personal level, he diminishes how they’ve actually used that power, against people like him, among many others. That’s actually selling out his own team. I sincerely wish that I could get Buttigieg (and all the other candidates) to read Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society, and internalize its lessons. Social leaders who want to effect meaningful change…

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