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It’s Still Your Fault: The Cubit’s Guide to Blaming

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…red blame in the twenty-first century. We approached scholars, scientists, policy experts, and theologians to ask how blame takes shape in the contemporary public square. If you haven’t been keeping up, you can read the introductory post or explore the full series. We learned about killer robots, imaginary bathroom creepers, and the role of public housing policy in creating America’s Fergusons. We questioned our own hatred of Monsanto and made a m…

Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…os said this is about ‘unit cohesion, it’s about combat effectiveness.’ No policy change should be made that does not improve readiness, and it is clear that allowing open homosexuals to serve will have the opposite effect. It will weaken rather than strengthen our military.” Of course, none of those fears came to pass. As today’s Pentagon study notes: “[B]y 1953, 95 percent of all African-American soldiers were serving in racially integrated unit…

On The Silence Of ‘The Lamb’s Agenda’: An Open Letter to Rev. Samuel Rodriguez

By Peter Laarman

…—defined by you and your fellows as deference to religious dogma in public policy—and you expect him to “protect our Judeo-Christian value system.” You mention, rather dramatically, “the agenda of the Lamb.” We are both ordained Christian ministers. I do not presume to know what the “agenda of the Lamb” in fact is. But you do presume to know. Personally, I do not believe that God-in-Christ is invested in the creation of a “cross-driven movement…

It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

By Patricia Miller

…tein. Goodstein was slammed on Twitter. Ed Whelen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center called it a “hit piece” and disputed both the fact that Barrett was obliged to disclose her membership and that the Catholic Church doesn’t teach the concept of “male headship.” As Daniel Burke of CNN noted on Twitter, it appeared to be a “well-coordinated response” to the piece: “Nominee clams up, PoP cleans up and Fed[eralist] Society attacks.” Both response…

Who (or What) are Sarah Palin’s Prayer Warriors?

By Sarah Posner

…“Angels and Demons.” He writes that instead of hunkering down and learning policy, she read emails from “prayer warriors” on her Blackberry. On the eve of her debate with Joe Biden, he tells us, she read an email from evangelist Lou Engle telling her it was her “Esther moment” and “your identity is ‘Sarah Barracuda.’” (As I reported at the time, Engle told this to anyone who would listen.) Gross continues with an attempt to explain what a “prayer…

Rick Santorum’s Crusade To Save “Christendom”

By Sarah Posner

…t not a violent jihadist” because he has been critical of American foreign policy, and innocent lives lost around the world as a result of it. He told Fox News that Rauf isn’t a “moderate” and implied he’s therefore anti-American. Santorum’s attempt to portray Islam as an enemy of America, its values, and indeed western civilization is nothing new. After Santorum lost his Senate seat in 2006, he became the director of the conservative Ethics and P…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…at promoting the rights of LGBT people is an integral part of U.S. foreign policy. And in New York City on Tuesday, December 10, International Human Rights Day, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power met with an international group of LGBT rights activists at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. The gathering was described as a “roundtable strategy session on ways U.S.foreign policy can align more powerfully with LGBT communities globally t…

Court Rules Against Texas Education Employee Forced To Resign Over Forwarded Email

By Lauri Lebo

…h Circuit in New Orleans last week upheld a district court decision that a policy of the Texas Education Agency requiring employees to be neutral on the issue of “evolution and creationism” is not unconstitutional. This whole story started way back when when the Texas Board of Education battle over its education curriculum was just beginning. Christine Comer was one of the first victims of the whole insanity of the process. A tenth-generation Texa…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…m’? Broadly, opposition to what they define as ‘mainstream’ healthcare and policy, particularly regarding regulation of vaccinations, supplements, and alternative therapies. More specifically, it’s a sense of fighting a war for bodily freedom and medical agency. The actions of Kartra in deplatforming the summit reveals a front of this war, as its soldiers fight censorship in the form of cancelled social media, webinars, and YouTube accounts. Label…

The Duggars To Headline Values Voters Summit

By Sarah Posner

…aim that that the UNFPA supported forced abortions under China’s one-child policy. More recently these same groups have disseminated a translation of a UN representative at 2009 conference in Mexico, in which he allegedly claimed that the dissolution of the family has been a triumph of human rights over the patriarchy. I’ve not been able to find a record of his actual statement in any language, but the quote “the high rate of divorces and births o…