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Catholic Charities Cuts Off Health Insurance To Employees’ Spouses in DC

By Sarah Posner

…e Washington Post reports. Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the District tomorrow. Starting today, Catholic Charities, according to the Post, “will not offer benefits to spouses of new employees or to spouses of current employees who are not already enrolled in the plan.” Our contributor Mary Hunt has already eviscerated the church’s decision to abandon at-risk children rather than provide services to same-sex couples. But the health insurance d…

The Endurance Of Christian Reconstructionism

By Sarah Posner

In Texas tomorrow, there is a run-off election to determine the winner of the Republican primary for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court, and one of the candidate is Rick Green, who works with WallBuilders, David Barton’s historical revisionist outfit that would have the world (and Glenn Beck) believe the founders planned a theocracy rather than a democracy. (Barton, who once served as the co-chair of the Texas Republican Party, advised the state…

Secular Group Calls On Obama To “Keep His Word” on Faith-Based Office

By Sarah Posner

Tomorrow is the second anniversary of President Obama’s campaign speech in Zanesville, Ohio, in which he laid out his plan for an Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The speech thrilled advocates of a government partnership with faith-based groups to dispense services to the needy, but it also allayed the concerns of church-state separation advocates who had been critics of the Bush administration’s executive orders permitting re…

‘Rome is Gay’

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ome a guard tower which may end up guarding a cemetery all over again. And tomorrow that same Pyramid will become the central symbol and staging area for an ancient-style Roman triumph celebrating a very modern kind of gay pride. And one day after that, some thousands of miles away, citizens in the United States celebrated something else with parades: their independence, their freedom from undue oppression and interference in their personal affair…

Is This Light?

By Amina Wadud

…Does it mean menopausal women have no sexual desire? That would not be accurate then would it? Certainly 14 centuries ago when romantic love was not the primary motivation of marriage and partnership, women past a certain age would not be considered eligible for marriage. At that time, marriage was only about sex, and hetero-sex at that. Thus the one word collapses many different concepts—and some of these aspects need to be taken apart. That’s th…

Who Are You Calling Crazy?

By Sarah Posner

…ant plan to rally the faithful, glee shouldn’t be part of their vocabulary or their talking points. In any case, I won’t be at the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow. It’s my sister’s 50th birthday, and I’d be crazy to miss it….

I Am Better than Him

By Amina Wadud

…, or arrogance, came up in various forms. I wanted to see how I might elaborate on the issue. Especially after another encounter yesterday with one of my daughters, whose new-age life style has led her to a level of arrogance I can sometimes barely manage to abide by. I think it is good and necessary for all human beings to continually make choices that they think will improve the quality of their lives: food, clothing, spirituality, geography— wh…

Gingrich and Hagee, End-Times Buddies

By Sarah Posner

…igure would emerge as leader of Egypt, and “will appear initially as a moderate and within a few weeks embrace Sharia which is the Islamic law that now governs Iran.” (Meanwhile here, Haroon Moghul had already explained — with facts! — why Egypt is not Iran.) Also on February 7, Gingrich appeared on CNN to claim the Obama administration simply doesn’t understand the threat to America. He called the Obama administration “amateurish” and maintained…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…today is my last day of fasting in California. I leave for the East coast tomorrow morning for time with my other children who are fasting, and time with my shaykh. I am really excited! At my shaykh’s place I will also spend time in retreat (more like khalwa than i’tikaf, so I need to explain a bit about these two). The retreat into sacred solitude is a common spiritual practice across theist and non-theist traditions alike. The basic idea is thi…

Travel Truths

By Amina Wadud

…was expecting it would be like the perfect synch between my laptop and my iPhone. Maybe it will be, but not yet. I am just at the place where I can say, it is lighter than my laptop. Oh yeah, and I got another plus: at airport security yesterday, I didn’t even have to take it out of the bag! That was the only good thing at the airport. Ever heard Robin Williams joke about the “random” checks at airport security?’ He reads all these, clearly, Musli…