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This Veterans Day, the Centennial of the Unknown Soldier, Skip the Platitudes and Talk to a Veteran

By Sara Jaye Hart

…s are encouraged to join the trolley tours, for about the price of a movie ticket.) Ideals may profane the real, may draw hearts and minds away from the work to be done and toward a future of dreams, and in so doing they may accustom the suffering to an unjust world. Such has been the secularist critique of a faraway and hoped-for heaven. But like heaven, national ideals give a diverse populace a shared moral horizon. They give people something to…

Same-Sex Marriage in Catch 22

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lity, could pour into voting stations in record numbers to punch the Obama ticket—and then cast a vote for Proposition 8. To try and prevent this, Prop 8 opponents are holding informal educational sessions in black and Latino neighborhoods and talking with black clergy to try to sway the opinion of minority populations that have historically been hostile to LGBT rights—especially same-sex marriage. The stakes are high. Black voters account for 6 p…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…zing and electoral politics. Manion was campaign manager for a third-party ticket in 1956 and the prime mover of Americans for Goldwater in 1960. National Review editors organized a rally against Khrushchev’s visit in 1959. The next year Young Americans for Freedom, a central organization of the conservative movement, was born at Buckley’s Connecticut estate. The infrastructure of the modern conservative movement was built by media activists—the o…

HBO’s Game Change Hits, But Sarah Palin Pic Misses Religion

By Anthea Butler

…McCain’s choice opened the door to the teeming masses of lower- and middle-class Republicans who believed in Sarah Palin, rather than party politics. Those masses were given form in the Tea Party, essentially resulting in a takeover of the GOP by the very groups it hoped to exploit for votes: evangelicals, tea partiers, and birthers. Today’s candidates have each taken a page from Palin’s playbook, from prayer rallies to makeovers, while Rick Santo…

Are Evangelicals Truly Separating Themselves from the GOP?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat even “thinking” evangelicals who vote on “values and convictions” won’t still impulsively cast their vote for the Republican ticket without a second thought….

SCOTUS Seems to Think You Should Be Forced to Pay For Religious Education

By John Stoehr

…exercise clause into a broadly applicable special rights provision. A free ticket for the religious to exempt themselves from federal and state laws—most importantly, public health and anti-discrimination laws. JS: Do these special rights provisions apply equally? The court is on a mission to remake free-exercise law. Not too long ago, it held that religious people and organizations could not claim special exemptions to generally applicable law so…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…using young boys in December of 2018. How long does it take to get a plane ticket to Rome? Why not convene a Zoom meeting to save time, money, and face? Any PR flack knows that step one is to put out the fire ASAP. Heads of national bishops’ conferences are the last people needed for a constructive conversation on sexual abuse. Their collective inattention, coverups, and tepid excuses are a major source of the problem. Why are there no lay people…

Joe the Plumber: Horatio Alger with Plumber’s Crack

By Jonathan L. Walton

…urzelbacher’s life is a far cry from the quarter-of-a-million-dollar small business owner persona that he originally presented to Senator Obama. Nor does it matter that Joe’s trick-or-treat companion “Sarah the Hockey Mom” has a wardrobe that cost more than Mr. Wurzelbacher’s Ohio home. Such facts are irrelevant in the minds of those who need to believe the stories we tell ourselves. A modern day Horatio Alger with plumber’s crack is much more app…

Women, Religion, and Film: Higher Ground Raises the Stakes

By Sarah Sentilles

…things spicy in the bedroom, flirts with a police officer to get out of a ticket, and tells Corinne to trust her body, that it will tell her what she needs. The film is unexpectedly funny, and much of the humor happens when the two women are together. It is rare to see a film that presents friendship between women as a powerful source of laughter, resistance, knowledge, and love. So many of the films I see in theaters are written by men for men a…

Praying Away the Gay: “This is What Love Feels Like?”

By Tanya Erzen

…ay psychiatrist, reluctantly dates a woman from his mother’s Sunday school class, and even abstains from eating dessert. It’s the late 1970s in Walnut Creek, California and Mary is played by Sigourney Weaver in the Lifetime television movie Prayers for Bobby. When Bobby haltingly confesses to his Christian family that he thinks he’s gay, their immediate reaction is “God can handle this. It’s curable with his help.” These were the messages that the…