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The Only Religion Question Reporters and Debate Moderators Should Ask Presidential Candidates (Kim Davis Edition)

By Sarah Posner

…ent should step aside for a particular religion. While Huckabee may be the most ambitious of the presidential candidates on this issue, others are nonetheless coming to Davis’s defense. Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal, competing with Huckabee to be the second-tier presidential favorite among religious conservatives, issued more mild statements in support of Davis. Jindal told the Huffington Post that religious liberty “is an essential freedom and an ess…

Another Book Burner Lusts for Attention

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ear in agreement with what we are doing. I may ask for your church’s name, phone number, and Web site to verify your stand. What I see as the sin at the heart of Grizzard and Jones’ actions—as well as at the heart of anyone who seeks to violently control the free will or belief of others—is lust. These men lust for control; and in their lust they objectify others, people they call “heretics” or “sinners.” Lust, in and of itself, is not a bad thing…

Ralph Reed’s Group Goes after “Union Thugs” in Wisconsin

By Sarah Posner

…rategy that serves his own business interests. A recent profile in the Christian Post noted how the Faith and Freedom Coalition is housed right next door to Reed’s (and Phillips’) Century Strategies, and it has “the look and feel of a campaign headquarters.” “That’s what this is,” Marx told the Post. “Pure and simple.” It’s 2012’s version of the Christian Coalition: melding evangelicals with the tea party issues they’re already comfortable with, b…

Playing God in the Wild Kingdom

By Lauri Lebo

…d the frog’s suffering, my position is that one shouldn’t interfere with the cruelties of the wild—no matter how brutal—and that having the power to play God doesn’t mean we should. Jeff’s response is that most people would have done what he did and, anyway, I’m just a cold-hearted harlot. So readers, I’d be interested to hear from others with similar stories. How did you choose to react?…

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…—and when it comes to a subject as contentious as abortion rights, there almo*]}*st always is—judges will look to the committee report as evidence of congressional intent, and use it to decide what the law actually means. In this case, the committee report for H.R. 3 says that the bill will “not allow the Federal Government to subsidize abortions in cases of statutory rape.” Wow. Well, how to make sense of this? I can think of a few possible angles: …

Dear Lindsay Lohan, I’m Sorry

By Haroon Moghul

…isn’t because of that—although I am sorry—or even Mean Girls, one of the best movies ever. Or even that I had the biggest crush on you because of that movie. (A 24-year-old Pakistani nerd is like a 13-year-old lovelorn white child. It’s not racism, it’s anthropology.) I’m apologizing because I saw this morning, and now returning back to the coincidence, a story on Fox News: “Lindsay Lohan converts to Islam?” The best way I can describe Fox News is…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…Some countries where authorities have used forced anal exams in the past, most notably Lebanon, have taken steps to end the practice. But others, including Egypt and Tunisia, rely on them with great frequency in prosecutions for consensual same-sex conduct. The use of forced anal examinations appears to be a recent phenomenon in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. United Methodist Church: First openly gay bishop elected; schism ahead? The Western Division…

Who’s Accusing Who of Mormon-Baiting?

By Joanna Brooks

…day, Bill Donohue and the Catholic League charged the Obama campaign with “Mormon baiting.” The evidence? A report in US News & World Report, based on one blog piece by Deal Hudson, president of the Pennsylvania Catholics Network, a conservative Catholic advocacy group, who is accusing Catholics for Obama of staging an anti-Mormon “whispering campaign” against Mitt Romney. Deal wrote that one Catholic friend told him she had been called by a phon…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…t the United States was incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM’s mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises, [and] that Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing US standing in the region.” In testimony (pdf) before the Senate Armed Services committee on March 16, Gen. Petraeus reiterated these concerns. Petraeus, one of the most respected military men in the country, told the committe…

Mel Gibson’s ‘To-Do’ List

By Becky Garrison

…er assclown costume 3. Bring cotton candy to the media circus 4. Conduct taste test to find best chalk 5. Buy extra-strength Depends 6. Polish tinfoil hat so can wear it to Restoring Honor Rally 7. Find E.T. 8. Phone home Sarah Palin 1. Conference call with Smokey the Bear to map out guerrilla grizzly action plan 2. Primp for photo shoot with Today’s Christian Woman 3. Order camouflage Bible 4. Call Pat Robertson for spiritual guidance 5. Put hubb…