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What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…t their residents from traveling to blue states to receive abortions or prescriptions.) One group that will likely be targeted, Aid Access, is an international telemedicine abortion provider based in The Netherlands that uses European physicians to consult and prescribe the abortion pill (for the record, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of mifepristone in the United States through the 10th week of pregnancy). The abortion pill…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…ause of the “tickepocalypse”: for the first time ever, the event sold out. Scalpers hawked tickets for hundreds of dollars over their purchase price and artists who had been working feverishly to finish their projects but had put off purchasing tickets were left out in the cold. It was a different scene in 1997 when I first came to Burning Man and only waited briefly at the entrance as a “Greeter” cast a cursory glance at my car. But the Greeters’…

Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

By Kaya Oakes

…ners had welcomed him into a Bible study, and then opened fire, massacring nine of them. Francis’ encyclical officially arrived the next morning, but for many who watched the coverage of Charleston unfold in horror, it arrived to a mourning, wounded audience—the very same broken, fractured world Pope Francis describes in Laudauto Si….

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…ble and the law see as largely illegitimate because it has overstepped the scope of its God-ordained jurisdiction. The federal government, in this “biblical” view, is largely unconstitutional. Thus, Moore and his fellow travelers believe that federal courts cannot tell the states what to do, be it on same-sex marriage, or, in the past, slavery or school desegregation, or, crucially in our current context, gun control. Under this “biblical” view of…

The Cubit Vs. “New Age Colbert,” JP Sears

By The Editors

…at Sears’ Charleston, S.C., home. Last week, Andrew traveled back to Charleston, this time to collaborate with Sears on his latest video, where the two discuss science, religion, and why journalists will one day be replaced by robots. …

Visit From Conservative Sex Educator Divides a Town

By Eric C. Miller

…now that the abstinence educator spoke last week at George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia, where she reportedly told students, “If you take birth control, your mother probably hates you,” and “I could look at any one of you in the eyes right now and tell if you’re going to be promiscuous.” Covering that same visit for the Charleston Gazette, Mackenzie Mays observes: In her YouTube videos, Stenzel says birth control makes a wom…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…e said more, something about the package. But I just wanted to get off the phone, so I could say out loud a soft, “yes!”, make a silent prayer of gratitude, and then just cry a little. I dressed in white to attend Friday prayer (not as the imam, mind you). Then later in the day, the mailman delivered my unscented cosmetics, from the Labayk Company; and my shoes came by parcel post, from Zappos. I put them on and started walking with them. Altogeth…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…d welcome the opportunity to sit with you so as to attempt to move your conscience to my conviction that we must humble ourselves before this sublime work. But for now I will not rest, I will not sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight, until I hear the end of this violation. And neither should you, for it is the abomination that brings desolation. The final reckoning will not register which airline company boasted the most freshly painted fleet or…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…alse—swept through the terminals, sending passengers, law-enforcement, and airline workers scrambling for cover and eventually onto the tarmac. The responding authorities found neither shooters nor evidence of any shots fired. The most likely explanation offered for the panic was that the cheering of Olympics fans for Usain Bolt’s performance in the 100 meters sounded like gunfire. In an episode titled “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” from…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…big applause lines: his statement that stem cell research was “never about science,” but about “the secular left” using “science to justify desensitizing us” to the “sacredness of life as a gift of God.” Others included his proposal to issue executive orders within two hours of taking office to “abolish all White House czars;” reinstate the global gag rule, which would prohibit foreign NGOs receiving U.S. aid from discussing abortion with clients;…