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U.S. Bishops (Who Lit Religious Liberty Fuse) Urge Civility

By Patricia Miller

…rts to comply with activities they judge to be deeply immoral or go out of business. But, as the Times reported, it was the Catholic bishops who made the manifesto a political reality when they “took the lead” in opposing the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act, suggesting that it was an “infringement of religious freedom” to require religious institutions or Catholic business owners to cover birth control: Soon bishops were holding r…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…l enterprise. First, at the urging of several supporters from the world of business, he decided to incorporate his revival apparatus as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, thereby adopting a business model of organization and efficiency. After initial resistance, he also agreed to undertake a radio broadcast, the Hour of Decision, thereby tapping into the newly expanding universe of electronic media. Later, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Ass…

“Traditional values.” Tom DeLay. Jesus loves low, low prices! Just another day in Texas.

By Sarah Posner

…listic about the social responsibilities of any corporation. Wal-Mart is a business which the American people clearly value: shelves stocked with items they need (or want) at prices that alleviate financial pressure on the poor and underprivileged, while also benefiting millions of middle class shareholders who count on the firm’s financial success. The company pays employees well above the federal minimum wage, and employs more people than any ot…

I Booed Romney For Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…e of the big battles of the civil rights movement—voter suppression—is the business of the Republican Party today. What separates Vice President Biden’s speech from Romney’s is an appreciation and respect for cultural differences. While Biden is not a natural preacher, his energy and lively delivery resonated with the crowd. It did not seem forced to hear Biden say “We are our brother’s keeper, we are our sisters’ keepers” as he closed out his spe…

Blackwater’s Free-Market Crusade

By Nathan Schneider

…tive Pentagon and State Department contracts meant that, now a free-market businessman in his own right, Erik Prince had come full circle. Prince’s freedom, however, may not last. On August 4, Jeremy Scahill reported in The Nation that the night before, a pair of anonymous former Blackwater employees had filed sworn affidavits (John Doe #1 and #2) against Prince and his company in a Virginia federal court. Neither informant feels at liberty to rev…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…ge capitalism rather than abandon it, but they supported the regulation of business and banking, protections for workers, and the gradual extension of a limited social safety net. They voted for Franklin Roosevelt because he was a Democrat, but also because he promised those things, albeit in vague terms. Except for the most conservative among them, white clergy actually remained pretty willing to talk generally about systemic injustices throughou…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…major battle over Manassas in Virginia the smug Washington politicians and business patricians buggied out to the ridges to watch their volunteer boys send the rebels packing. But the southern confederates won the day and the war picnic-goers fled alongside the hopes of a quick end to the conflict. They came to feast their eyes on killing and revenge and ended up with a cowardly diarrhoea. Like a bloated drunk, they could not stomach what their ey…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…put Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions, out of business.” “In the past, there have been may local and statewide efforts to thwart Planned Parenthood, but what makes the National Coalition to Defeat Planned Parenthood special is that for the first time, the major pro-life groups around the country are coming together to implement a unified national action,” said Eric Scheidler, communications director for the Chicago-bas…

The Religious Implications of Nudity

By Steve A. Wiggins

…zy weekday morning in the Raleigh-Durham Airport and I am returning from a business trip I didn’t really want to take. I am dressed in business casual. I’m about as threatening as your average Gund creation. Having a total stranger employed by the government narrate just how he’s going to touch you is strangely erotic in a nation so squeamish about frank discussions of sexuality; especially involving same-gender touching. In public. Yet, here I st…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…me 420,000 people where it seems just about everyone knows everyone else’s business and generations of gay people lived undercover to avoid the moral judgment of neighbors and colleagues. To Mangion’s dismay, his party abstained from voting on a 2014 civil unions law because of objections to allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. Then, two months ago, Malta became the first European nation to ban gay conversion therapy… The “devoutly Catholi…