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The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…same Torah and commentaries, study the same Talmud, live by the same legal codes, and adhere to the same basic belief system. Yes, the haredim have a very narrow reading of these sources but it’s a safe bet that they can cite chapter and verse to support their views—often more adroitly than their modern counterparts. In his Mishneh Torah (Code of Law), Maimonides explicitly advocated the position that women should stay mostly in their homes. The k…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ious liberty.” Certainly, the religious right has made “religious liberty” code for “we reserve the right to discriminate against LGBT people with impunity,” but I think some businesses ought to have the right to deal with who they want to deal with. A photographer, or a baker, for example, should be able to serve who they please. If their refusal to serve an LGBT person (or anybody else for that matter) leads to a lawsuit or a boycott, that’s the…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…% of self-identified evangelical Christians voted for Romney, 23% for Rick Santorum, and 21% for Ron Paul. It is also worthy of note that in South Carolina Mitt Romney actually improved his share of self-identified Protestant voters. In 2008, Romney won about 13% of South Carolina Protestants; in 2012, that number grew to 27%. Certainly, data shows that anti-Mormon sentiment played a role in Romney’s fortunes, but here are five other takeaways fro…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…tals and so forth. So if one had to bring Boudway’s original analogy up to code, one would have to say this: Imagine you live in a country where the default way to buy food is buying it from your employer. You get a job, and your employer negotiates with companies who in turn have agreements with grocery stores and growers, shipping companies and meat processing plants, and so on. The end result of all this is that you get a card, which you presen…

Santorum Spokesperson Confuses “Radical Environmentalism” with “Radical Islamic” Policies with “Theological Secularism”

By Sarah Posner

…legitimate if in conflict with a “Christian worldview.” Don’t be fooled by Santorum’s defense that he believes Obama when the president says he’s a Christian. Listen to the world salad Santorum and Stewart dropped onto the national airwaves. Anyone steeped in the “Christian worldview” (including Stewart’s old boss Bachmann) would fully understand that code as “Obama doesn’t govern from a ‘Christian worldview.’ And you know what that means: he must…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…s to set them aside as irrelevant “old speeches to religious groups” that are nothing but a distraction from his message. But this vision of cosmic war, far from being an irrelevant distraction, permeates and enlivens Santorum’s political platform. When Santorum sounds as if he is attacking higher education as such… well, he is. And his attack is backed up by all the conviction of a holy warrior taking on the forces of evil….

We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree

By Thomas Lecaque

…n 2020: The QAnoners’ apocalypse, unsurprisingly, is one of political partisan violence, culminating in “The Storm,” when all of the so-called “deep state leaders” will be arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay, including a variety of Democratic politicians, celebrities, and public servants numbering in the thousands, and then public executions and the works. That last bit is really the key: the Day of the Rope, from the White supremacist guidebook/n…