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The Last Debate, Blow by Blow

…r running mate at the helm? Obama hit Joe Biden’s high points: his foreign policy experience, solid middle class roots, a history of “fighting for the little guy.” McCain emphasized the *character* of his running mate: Sarah Palin is a reformer who stared down big oil, and a feminist who understands the special needs of “‘special needs children.” In short, pablum. But in the follow-up, McCain delivered several hard body blows, claiming that Biden…

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There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

…t generously. The man, whose Word of Life church is non-affirming in LGBTQ policy and doesn’t disclose its policy on the inclusion of women in leadership, once tweeted with evident pride that his congregation, in its “culture of kindness,” included both ICE officers and undocumented immigrants, thus putting the latter immediately at risk for his moment of performative kumbaya. https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd/status/1065753809715150848?s=20 https://…

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Inside the Rubio-Cruz Battle for Evangelical Voters

…tertwining of conservative Christianity and politics, and there’s not much policy daylight between the two candidates. Both oppose marriage equality. Both oppose abortion. Both describe religious liberty as under threat by marriage equality, and by, for example, the contraception coverage requirement in the Affordable Care Act. Rubio told NBC’s Chuck Todd in December that although he wouldn’t favor a constitutional amendment to overturn Obergefell…

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Why Does Abortion Have to Be a Personal Question for Men?

…rate abortion and contraception at the top of their list of concerns. As the other Sarah discussed earlier today, Catholic doctrine has a lot to say about issues unrelated to reproductive matters. Biden took a probably little noticed dig at Ryan when he pointed out that the Republican’s economic policy proposals are at odds with Catholic social justice teaching. Raddatz could have asked about how quite a number of Catholic theologians have someth…

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Glenn Beck’s ‘Social Justice’ Heresies

…to eradicating poverty is undermined by an insistence that government and policy have no role to play, except, as Olasky advocates, in giving people tax credits to donate to the charity of their choice. Olasky told me recently, “Beck is a popular entertainer, or let me put it another way: he’s a popular educator. He really does serve as a teacher in an entertaining way, and sometimes you have to adjust the teaching to the knowledge of the student…

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Obama Reverses Bush Stem Cell Restrictions, Time to Step Up

…Missouri Synod, and the Southern Baptist Convention. The Episcopal Church, United Methodists, all major branches of Judaism, United Church of Christ, UU, and the Presbyterian Church have all adopted positions in favor of using early embryos to create stem cells for medical and therapeutic research so long as embryos are not created specifically for this purpose. Most advocate the use of embryos created for assisted reproduction and scheduled to be…

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RDPulpit: The Prophets of Neoliberalism

…premise here is that the grip of Mammon over personal ideology and public policy represents a profound spiritual and social disorder. And further, that unless this grip can finally be broken decisively, none of the things religious and secular progressives say they want to accomplish will actually be accomplished. Barack Obama’s revolution of hope (should the senator actually ascend to the presidency) will be stillborn. Progressives will tear the…

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Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Spouts Christian Nationalism Defending Racist Voter Suppression

…l and reading “In God We Trust” on a dollar bill to justify hateful public policy is straight out of the Christian nationalist playbook. That Hyde-Smith next turns to the Bible and its passages about slavery and thoughtcrime to justify disenfranchising Black voters is apt. She wrongly cited Exodus 20 verse 18, which is about trembling and lightning and thunder and generally being afraid of the biblical god, not the sabbath. The verse comes immedia…

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A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

…ge as tremendously homophobic. But that hasn’t transferred over to a major policy that would be comparable to US evangelical leaders who have tremendous influence on social policy alliances with the political elite.  You note that Hubbard loved to surround himself with beautiful young girls and women and say that Miscavige has continued the practice. Could you say more about the degree of sexism in Scientology?  There’s not so much sexism. Hubbard…

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Newt Gingrich’s Apocalypse

…ACT conference: revealed the diverse array of rightwing factions that have united behind the effort to promote the EMP threat thesis. For example, several panels at the conference were led by missile-defense enthusiasts closely associated with neoconservatism, notably Cliff May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy. Other presenters with a rightist ideological bent included Brigi…

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