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The “Religious Freedom” Long Game and the Santorum Surge

By Sarah Posner

On the latest episode of my show on Bloggingheads, World magazine political reporter Emily Belz and I discuss the ongoing battle over contraception coverage and the Rick Santorum surge. Was Darrell Issa’s hearing last week a political winner or loser? For religious conservatives, this battle is not about 2012, but a long game, as mapped out in the Manhattan Declaration. In this clip, Belz and I discuss the religious language Santorum uses, and wh…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…d have been alleviated. But as yesterday’s statement from the USCCB on the latest proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services on religious exemptions and accommodations made clear, there appears to be little the administration can do to satisfy the bishops. Could that situation have been improved with greater involvement by someone who has dismissed church-state separation concerns? Something DiIulio observed underscores fundame…

Catholic College Won’t Reveal Insurer; Yet Another Contraception Accommodation in the Works?

By Patricia Miller

…n that emergency contraception is an abortifacient. In its comments to the latest version of the accommodation, the USCCB took it a step further and asserted that not only are contraceptives not a preventive service, but actually pose a health threat to women, revealing a deep hostility to women’s exercise of fertility management: Unlike other mandated “preventive services,” prescription contraceptives covered by this mandate do not prevent diseas…

Science vs. Ideology and the Legacy of C. Everett Koop

By Sarah Posner

On the latest bloggingheads, I talk to the Religious Institute’s Debra Haffner about the legacy of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who passed away on Monday at the age of 96. In this clip, Haffner describes how, despite his personal opposition to abortion, Koop refused to let ideology get in the way of science in concluding there was no evidence abortion harms women. Anti-choice activists still hail Koop for his role, with Francis Schaeff…

A Pro-Patriarchy Argument in All Its Glory

By Patricia Miller

…Life—announced this week that they had rejected the Obama administration’s latest accommodation and would proceed with their suits. (And which Priests for Life helpfully compared to a government “plan to arbitrarily imprison children between 2 and 4 years old, and imposes on businesses the obligation to inform them of such children among the families of their employees.”) This, too, lays bare the true nature of the suits, since the plaintiffs are…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…ome profound changes in the way people make decisions in their lives.” The latest entry into the series, written by Montgomery’s son, is said to the be the scariest. But, like the others, it’s also meant to be reassuring. “Don’t be afraid,” Montgomery said in 2010, when asked to sum up the Choose Your Own Adventure message. “Understand that we are all confronted with choices everyday of our life. And it’s new, it’s exciting, and sometimes it’s rea…

Accept Gays? Only If They Know Their Place

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ians crushed and torn by religious hatred in his review of the book in the latest issue of The Christian Century. As an evangelical Christian whose career has been spent in the South, I must say I find it scandalous that the most physically and psychologically dangerous place to be (or even appear to be) gay or lesbian in America is in the most religiously conservative families, congregations and regions of this country. Most often these are Chris…

International “Religious Freedom” Agenda Will Only Embolden ISIS

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…vocacy is considerably more complex than is suggested by such accounts. To promote religious rights is to promote a particular mode of governing social diversity that implicates religion in complex and variable ways, depending on the context. Legal and political advocacy for religious freedom tends to mask other contributors to social tension and conflict, amplify and entrench the religious divisions it seeks to manage, and force political authori…

Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween

By Maxwell Grant

…r constructive proposals for what to make of the holiday, they’re only the latest examples of a venerable Christian tradition. Indeed, so much of the work of faith is the process of trying to do just that. In this case, what is it about evil and death, and perhaps the temptation to mayhem, that the Church’s story can’t quite manage to contain? And what should faithful people do about it? The broader cultural narrative of modern Halloween continues…

Karen Armstrong, Caped Anti-Anti-Muslim Crusader?

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…hen a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields of Blood: A History of Religion and Violence to review, she was puzzled. “But you hate Karen Armstrong!” Hate may be too strong a word, but my friend was accurately remembered the attitude I had toward the universally admired, “name brand” in popular religion writing, circa our college years in the late 1990s. I would express frustration at Armstrong’s ge…