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5 Reasons Why the GOP Push to Defund Planned Parenthood Won’t Go Away

By Sarah Posner

…ervices. When confronted with the correct percentage—a mere three—Kyl told CNN that “his remark was not intended to be a factual statement,” according to Think Progress. Kyl’s cavalier use of false information, and correspondingly cavalier excuse for using it, is a hallmark of the right’s attack on Planned Parenthood. The right has lionized Lila Rose, producer of the anti-Planned Parenthood agitprop which is based on lies and deception. Indeed Ros…

Senators Can and Must Ask About Nominees’ Religious Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…line of attack is about politics, not the Constitution. Gabbard, who told CNN she was running for president three days after the op-ed was published, will face tough questions on the campaign trail because she grew up in what some have called a cult. Gabbard’s clumsy op-ed was intended as a political inoculation; she’ll vilify any attempt to ask critical questions about her religion. The cries of religious bigotry continued this week when Senator…

All the Candidates’ Religion Problems

By Sarah Posner

…eized professional election returns watchers. First there was that surreal CNN webcam video of Sarah Palin, offering up non-prognostications about her party’s upcoming convention and her own visions for 2016; then there was Nate Silver seeing no clear path to a Romney victory in Ohio. Could Rick Santorum really win Ohio? What would it mean? While waiting for election boards in urban centers to get their ballots counted, Twitter devolved to the imp…

Phelps Unites Enemies on Memorial Day

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…0 counter protestors came out to confront the handful of Westboro members. CNN reported that among the strange bedfellows that Westboro seems to unite were about 10 members of a Virginia branch of the Ku Klux Klan called the Knights of the Southern Cross: “It’s the soldier that fought and died and gave them that right to free speech,” said Dennis LaBonte, the self-described “Imperial Wizard” of the KKK group that he said he formed several years ag…

Cornel West, Using His Powers for Good

By Edward J. Blum

…, the last human city; and some know him from Real Time with Bill Maher or CNN or as the friend and confidant of radio/TV host Tavis Smiley. West is, for all that, a controversial figure, as religion writer Lisa Miller describes in a recent no-holds-barred profile for New York magazine: there are those who believe he’s more into being a media superstar than a thoughtful intellectual. Saturday Night Live satirized him recently, and Aaron McGruder,…

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…s against—among others—President Biden, Judge Juan Merchan, Maxine Waters, CNN commentator Norm Eisen, New York Attorney General Tish James, Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, and Chuck Schumer, claims that Democrats are not “above killing their political opposition.” Yes, leading voices on the American Right are openly writing lists of which political opponents, members of the justice system, or parts of the media they want jailed, while at least some…

Budget Showdown and Government Shutdown Not About Abortion

By Sarah Posner

…of Nevada, the majority leader, told reporters in an exchange broadcast on CNN Friday morning that “this all deals with women’s health” and that other issues had been resolved. “It has everything to do with ideology on that other side of the Capitol,” he said. So Democrats didn’t cite abortion funds, did they? No, they cited Planned Parenthood funding, and women’s health, but not abortion funds. That’s because the federal government does not fund…

Transforming Sports Culture: Sochi and the NFL

By Darnell Moore

…t Young and Gay in Putin’s Russia documentary, was recently interviewed on CNN’s Global Public Square Blog. Larsson reporting on the state of young LGBTQI people in Russia stated the following: What worried me even more was the attitude amongst young people, whose replies to my questions about their view of homosexuality were bordering on aggressive. There is no education in schools about what homosexuality is so the ignorance surrounding it isn’t…

4 (or 5) American Muslims For Ben Carson to Interrogate

By Haroon Moghul

…erview is over,” Williams announced, from off-camera. Jake Tapper, host of CNN’s State of the Union, had gone too far. Though it’s Carson who’s gone too far. As he told Tapper (before the interview was cut), if American Muslims “are not willing to reject Sharia and all the portions of it that are talked about in the Qur’an,” then, Carson said, “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.” A pronouncement as entertaining as…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…cted in the occasional “prayer being mumbled under our breath,” as he told CNN. His religion found more expression in the music. Haggard once cut a gospel album pulled from performances at churches (he basically hijacked a Sunday morning at Big Creek Baptist Church), the prison chapel at his alma mater San Quentin, and a rescue mission in Nashville. It’s a masterwork of spiritual and musical generosity: he makes space on the album for pastors’ pra…