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What’s the Problem With a Good Placebo?

By William Grassie

…es as mere placebo providers. These practices have been developed over thousands of years of human experimentation in diverse cultures. There may be scientific reasons why some of these CAM therapies work, just as some of what is practiced under the rubric of Western, physicalist medicine is not really evidence-based, but an ongoing experiment with only probabilistic results and unknown longterm consequences. There may be some important discoverie…

Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown

By Sarah Posner

…stence of the teenage erection was depicted as a wondrous joy. That same-sex sexual desire — not just civil rights — is equally celebrated in God’s eyes was both a divine (double entendre intended) and human argument to which Gallagher had no decent (again, double entendre intended) rebuttal. Sexual desire, Gallagher insisted, “is not an appetite, it is a vocation” to create babies. But to dismiss gay desire as just an appetite of course missed th…

2012 Presidential Hopefuls: God Game is On

By Sarah Posner

…warriors: aside from Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, dark horse Rick Santorum, and culture warrior-when convenient Mitt Romney are among the candidates. Here’s an early look at what these Republican contenders might do to win the hearts of Iowa’s social conservatives, from last year’s Values Voters Summit: [T]o win over this crowd, the presidential hopefuls — and tea party king- and queenmakers like Michele Bachmann and Jim DeMint — have to…

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…Jamaat-e Ahl-e Sunnat quoted on al Jazeera declared, “there should be no expression of grief or sympathy on the death of the governor, as those who support blasphemy of the Prophet are themselves indulging in blasphemy.” Reports from various sources in Pakistan indicate a widespread sympathy or, in some ways worse, apathy about the killing, even as many thousands rallied at the slain leader’s funeral. Perhaps most poignant, journalist Ahmed Rashi…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

…ime.” Indeed sex is so taboo it’s not even discussed—even to condemn homosexuality. “To even mention the name of [homosexuality] was a sin,” said Jack. “To talk about sexuality in general was wrong. The ‘S’ word as we called it was in my family absolutely never mentioned. Things like masturbation—I didn’t even know what it was until I was 19 or 20. Sex was considered bad and wrong and almost like the boogeyman that you don’t talk about.” Gothard’s…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…eir newfound media savvy the Catholic bishops may want their own concert next year. They would do better offering good coffee and hand warmers. This was the 38th such March for Life. In all likelihood, there will be another one next January 22nd. But let’s call things by their names—a Catholic demonstration that is made to appear far more generic than it is. It reminds me of the theological sleight of hand that would have everyone think that all C…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…hypocrisy of American conservative politicians like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum for fomenting panic about the Brotherhood’s supposedly theocratic aims: After all, in the United States it is axiomatic that Islam is inherently opposed to democracy and that Muslims are incapable of reconciling democratic and Islamic values. Never mind that the same people who scoff at the notion that religion could play no role in the emerging democracies in the…

CPAC Speaker Admires Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…s was passing out.) As I discuss in the piece, there was one official and explicitly Islamophobic panel at the conference, the essential premise of which was that shari’ah law is coming to America, beware, beware! The panel included former CIA director James Woolsey, activist-scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and National Review contributor Andrew McCarthy — whose book, How Obama Embraces Islam’s Shari’ah Agenda, was peddled in CPAC’s exhibit hall. On the…

South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Killing Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…e made in the committee hearing on the bill last week. “If you look at the code, these codes are dealing with illegal acts. Now, abortion is a legal act. So this has got nothing to do with abortion.” Here is the bill in its entirety: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: Section 1. Th…

In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

…nd, to take it a step further, from a refusal to consider that the robust expression of adult sexuality might be good for the soul). Beyond that, there is the fact that the Catholic Church itself is one of the all-time leading instigators and purveyors of anti-Jewish sentiment, though this circumstance has been blessedly altered over the past half century. But, again in the words of my congregant, himself a passionate participant in Catholic-Jewis…