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In the Lewinsky Redux, a Religious Message

By Sarah Posner

…ate someone who preyed on women working under him in the workplace. At the Washington Monthly, Ed Kilgore has a theory< There is, however, a meta-message here that is worth thinking through. Many conservatives sincerely believe that abandonment of a stoutly patriarchal society has been a disaster for women: they’ve lost the stability of “traditional marriage,” the presumption men will be held accountable for their material welfare, the chivalric a…

Inside the Rubio-Cruz Battle for Evangelical Voters

By Sarah Posner

…n the conspiratorial specter of sharia law. As David Weigel reports at the Washington Post, Rubio, when asked by an Iowa voter about sharia law coming to America, “swiftly pronounced that this was ‘not going to happen.’” Cruz’s reaction to a voter question about the prospect of sharia courts was to claim “there have been instances” and to promise to “do whatever is necessary to prevent” sharia law from coming to America. The Rubio supporters are c…

Catholic Child Neglect: DC Archdiocese Cuts Adoption Rather Than Abide Same-Sex Parents

By Mary E. Hunt

…not care for them, Catholic Charities there faced the same situation as in Washington. Under the leadership of its then president, J. Bryan Hehir, Catholic Charities in Boston was faced with abiding by the state law or doing the Catholic Church’s bidding. They tried every trick in the book to skirt the law. They asked then Governor Mitt Romney for an exemption, they launched various legislative strategies, all with the help of a powerful local law…

Penn. Legislator’s Jaw-Dropping Prayer Showcases America’s Christian Nationalism Problem

By Andrew L. Seidel

…speech itself. Borowicz’s other two examples are clear: Neither happened. Washington did not pray in the snow at Valley Forge and the delegates at the Constitutional Convention did not fast or pray. These are invented myths, not historical moments. ALSO FROM THE AUTHOR The Valley Forge prayer myth was invented by the same cleric, Mason Locke Weems, who invented the story about a young George Washington chopping down a cherry tree and confessing t…

DC Attorney General Goes ‘Religious Freedom’ Route to Investigate Catholic Church

By Patricia Miller

…neral is granted subpoena power regarding nonprofits and, according to the Washington Post, can “seek penalties against a non-profit—up to and including dissolving it.” Any felony activity that Racine discovers in the course of his investigation could be forwarded to the U.S. attorney. The Archdiocese of Washington said in a statement that to its knowledge there has been no clerical sexual abuse of minors in the last 20 years. However, Racine anno…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rch to bring disciplinary charges. Trustees of the AFF have been active in Washington, D.C. and Maryland churches, some of which have split with the Episcopal church and joined the AAC. The regional group had long opposed evolving church policies related to the ordination of women and the full inclusion of LGBT persons. They had previously coordinated their efforts against these changes through their ACC chapter. The recent name change allows memb…

The Sacramental American Day of Thanks

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ncoln) and its sacred shrines (cemeteries at Gettysburg and Arlington, any number of memorials on the Washington Mall, and more recently, Oklahoma City, the Pentagon and Ground Zero in New York). Perhaps most important, the US civil religion boasts its own calendar of “secular” holidays. These days, actually constituting a quasi-sacred calendar, span the entire calendar year: New Year’s Day, the King Holiday, President’s Day, Memorial Day, the Fou…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post, noting that next month will mark the 10th anniversary of marriage equality in Spain. I know how so many people in Ireland feel right now. When the parliament passed Spain’s same-sex marriage law on June 30, 2005, I said that our country would from that moment on be a fairer place. And I honestly believe that this has been the case. Our Constitutional Court…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…only fitting given the pervasive hyper-masculinist messages, down to the “Washington was a Chad” sticker at the Claremont Institute’s booth [see image at top]. The most important gathering of conservatives in the 21st century A week before NatCon, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts made headlines for announcing triumphantly, after the Supreme Court’s “president-king” ruling, that the US is in the “in the process of the Second American Re…

Jeb Bush’s “New Way” Of Talking About Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…bsolutely,” Bush replied, segueing to the case of Barronelle Stutzman, the Washington State florist who has become a conservative cause célèbre. “She had a regular customer who came in and she would provide flowers to him, and he was going to marry his significant other,” said Bush. “Asked her to participate as a friend in the wedding, to help organize it. And she thought about it, and said, look, I love you, you’re my friend, but I can’t particip…