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Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…looks around the pumpkin patch on Halloween night and says, “there’s not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” Of course, sincerity and truth are quite different things, and Linus favors the wrong one. Trump lies constantly, but to his die-hard supporters, he tells it like it is. He doesn’t mince words; his bluntness absolves him of hypocrisy. Linus is even something of a chauvinist. When Sally expresses doubt abou…

Raelians Push White House for Alien Embassy to Save Humanity

By Joseph Laycock

…there’s unrest and trouble brewin’ And those flying saucers may be just a sign That if peace doesn’t come it will be the end of some So repent today, you’re running out of time The man known as Rael (née Claude Vorilhon) incorporated the same elements of UFOs, nuclear anxiety, and Biblical prophecy. Rael allegedly encountered space aliens in 1973, who warned him that humanity had entered the “Age of Apocalypse” following the bombings of Hiroshima…

The Non-Existent Tea Party-Religious Right God Gap

By Sarah Posner

…hite House and now with Focus on the Family, implored his audience here to sign the Manhattan Declaration. (It is based on, he said, the recognition that religious liberty is our “first freedom.”) Or why Newt Gingrich referred derisively to “secular, anti-American values.” To Gingrich, those “secular” values represent the curtailment of (religious right) religious freedom. The your-rights-infringe-on-my-religious-freedom argument is the main one y…

School Voucher SCOTUS Case Isn’t About ‘Choice,’ It’s About Coerced Support for Religion

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ent, this morning Chief Justice John Roberts presided over one of the most significant cases before the Supreme Court, Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue. Some argue that this is a case about religious discrimination or school choice. It’s not. It’s about religious liberty. True religious liberty. The case involves a neo-voucher scheme adopted by the Montana legislature. Taxpayers owe taxes to Montana. They are relieved of that obligation if the…

Presbyterians, Change Hearts & Minds, Begin Ordaining Gays

By MaryAnn McKibben Dana

…t for LGBT equality in the denomination, when David Bailey Sindt held up a sign asking, “Is anyone else out there gay?” Part of the reason for 10A’s success this year is the answer to that question: Yes, there are gay people out there. As Rev. Tricia Dykers-Koenig, national organizer for Covenant Network of Presbyterians, said, “People are changing their minds about the morality of same-sex relationships. It comes from knowing more LGBT people.”…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…s” to advance a plot. See here for the full list of discussions so far, or sign up here for the RSS feed. Diane Winston_________________ Sunday, February 7. Fellow Capricologists: What did you make of the centrality of the news to “Reins of the Waterfall,” this week’s episode? On an earlier post, I’d joked about Ron Moore’s nod to newspapers with the debut of The Caprican on the SyFy Web page. But this week’s clips from Cap2 News, the Caprica Tr…

US Catholic Bishops Elect a Culture Warrior

By Marian Ronan

…opponent, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson. But his election is not a good sign. As the New York Times mentions, this is the first time a vice president has not been elected president of the USCCB since the 1960s. What the Times fails to mention is that it happened then because the vice president was quite old and would have retired as bishop in the middle of his term. The rejection of a Bishop Kicanas is essentially unparalleled. As Thomas Reese…

T-Shirts and Minarets: The Rending of the Social Contract

By Hussein Rashid

…choice. In one sense it is like saying that MacDonalds cannot have a high sign (as is the case in some municipalities) but they can serve all the hamburgers they want. Thus, this ban is not on building mosques, nor does it prevent Muslims from praying in mosques. Since minarets long ago ceased to have functional value, apart from perhaps holding a loud speaker, the minaret is indeed symbolic. But why the minaret? I suspect that this is a very Chr…

The Tebow Superbowl Ad: Offense, Defense, or Interference?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…fudging aside, the rights of free expression in a business context do have significant limits. Gimme that Pro-Bowl Religion Probing those limits is the question, and the essence of the game. It is a close-run thing and a hard line to draw, to be sure. Here’s how you don’t draw it. You don’t cry foul based on what you have heard, then seek to exclude the speech before it is spoken because you don’t agree with what you think may be said. A pro-choic…

Satanist Religious Freedom Rally Successful Despite Neo-Nazis and Christian Heckler

By Joseph Laycock

…d with Hampton Roy, a Little Rock resident who showed up with an anti-Nazi sign, I asked him whether he thought there would be violence. He answered, “This morning I wrote a living will and left it on my desk.” Roy had explored many religious communities in Little Rock and pointed out the Buddhist Ecumenical Society on the opposite side of the capitol. He felt that Arkansas politics used to be more cognizant of the establishment clause, citing the…