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In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…tion of powers and run roughshod over the independent judiciary,” said Rob Boston, Senior Policy Counsel for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. “The United States enjoys the highest degree of religious liberty of any nation in the world. Gingrich and his allies talk about threats to religious freedom, but what they really want is the right to use government to shove conservative/fundamentalist/ultra-orthodox social views down…

Blood for Oil

By Peter Laarman

…ed and sank on Earth Day. I felt the inconvenient truth in Dan Wasserman’s Boston Globe cartoon picturing one mournful and sooty miner telling another: “Folks on Nantucket worry that windmills will spoil their view.” We shouldn’t let spinning windmills in the current news cycle spoil our view of the deeper message from the oil-slicked Gulf. Many of the windier pundits are saying that these horrific events highlight the need to conserve energy and…

Vatican Unhappy with Obama’s Ambassador Picks

By Frances Kissling

…a piece of cake. Clinton was respectful and appointed first Ray Flynn, the Boston anti-choice mayor who had supported him and then Lindy Boggs, a pro-life Catholic member of Congress. No mind, the tension between Clinton and the Vatican was palpable, especially around the Clinton administration about face on reproductive health in the UN. Now, it is time for the Obama administration to appoint an ambassador and if early reports are true, the admin…

Why America’s Handmaid’s Tale Doesn’t Look Like Hulu’s

By Christopher Douglas

…an paramilitary takes control. Even in the not-particularly-devout city of Boston resistance quickly disappears. Indeed, despite the novel’s prescience otherwise, the depiction of the process by which it all happens seems unlikely and remote. And the novel was prescient. In an era in which most literary writers had difficulty recognizing the socially and politically resurgent Christian Right for what it was, Margaret Atwood understood its history,…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…at all non-queer Muslims are homophobic,” said Mohamed of Queer Muslims of Boston. But these and other organizations, such as Noor in Seattle and El-Tawhid Juma Circle in Toronto, are filling a long-ambiguous space within Muslim communities. As Shahar said, “I’m over people within the LGBTQ Muslim movement telling me the movement is young and therefore we need to wait a little bit longer before rolling up our sleeves and helping folks among us.” A…

Lincoln and Obama: A Precarious Parallel

By Susan Henking

…ous media discussions of this including the NY Times Book Review or in the Boston Globe.) Is Obama’s invocation of Lincoln meant to raise questions about sexuality? Of course not. And yet, we might ask: what does the rendering invisible of that particular Lincoln tell us about the Obama who has included evangelical pastor Rick Warren—and belatedly New Hampshire Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson—in his inauguration? Nor have we inquired about the risk…

Why Can’t We Take Death Seriously? The Obama Administration’s Latest Retreat

By Peter Laarman

…Medicare rules back in July in order to allow more public comment. But the Boston Globe got it right in a stinging editorial: the truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the express…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

…xercises is a recreation of a 1746 incident when a French fleet threatened Boston. A teacher playing Thomas Prince leads the students in prayer and “call[s] upon God to bring a storm and wipe out the ships,” whereupon their prayers are answered, showing God’s special protection of America. The lesson then connects the site of Prince’s prayer, the Old South Church, to Samuel Adams and thus to the American Revolution. It trumpets the role of the “Bl…

How Are The Justices Hanging in the Challenge to Prop. 8?

By Nick Street

…uggests that Tauscher’s legislation has a decent chance of passage. And in Boston on Tuesday, a gay and lesbian advocacy group filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging one of the key provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act, another of Bill Clinton’s sops to the right wing. The plaintiffs argue that, because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the “one man and one woman” language in DOMA violates the Constitution’s equal protection c…

Romney Baffled by Own Party

By Sarah Posner

…n health care for religious institutions and people of faith.” Later, on a Boston radio program, Romney himself finally realized what talking points he was supposed to use: “Of course I support the Blunt amendment. I thought he was talking about some state law that prevented people from getting contraception so I was simply — misunderstood the question and of course I support the Blunt amendment.” A few things. The Blunt amendment would not ban co…