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Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?

By Michael Schulson

…’t be messing with.” Shapiro takes that concern seriously. But she doesn’t buy into that fantasy of a world in which it’s possible for humans to exist without messing with things, including that which we don’t fully understand. That’s the fantasy, really, that underlies so many of our visions of simpler times. “With the earliest attempts at domestication of gray wolves in Europe some 30,000 years ago,” she writes, “our species began manipulating t…

The Nuns’ Chutzpah

By Sarah Posner

…mbed their noses at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops by refusing to buy the bishops’ false claims that the Senate health care bill requires taxpayers to fund abortions. These organizations, in a remarkable move against the church hierarchy, said they were supporting the health care reform bill because it adquately prevented federal funding for abortion and served their social justice goals of providing needed health insurance to 30 million…

Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’

By Bill Berkowitz

…of financial crises, bailouts, extensive layoffs, and reports of a massive number of housing foreclosures, there is little doubt that President-elect Barack Obama is also thinking about how to fulfill his pledge to rethink President Bush’s faith-based initiative and create effective government/community/faith-based partnerships through his Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Earlier this month, the Washington, DC-based Brookings…

NOM’s Gallagher: “Don’t Call Me a Bigot!”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e law, I can build a lifelong relationship with my partner, have children, buy property in common, and do everything other married people do. But, when one of us dies, we are strangers under the law. The custody of the children is up for grabs, perhaps by parents or grandparents who disapproved of the relationship. Our property is up for grabs, usually by greedy family members who smell quick money from estates. Our government refuses to give us b…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…California education system. And many other states follow Texas’ lead and buy the same version. So that means students across the country could be forced to read McLeroy’s myopic vision of America’s past. The organization, which champions faith and defends religious freedom, sent a letter to top publishing companies. Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, president of Interfaith Alliance, said: The Texas SBOE members certainly are entitled to believe whatever…

Lindsey Graham and Al Qaeda Share the Same “Allahu Akbar”

By Nathan Lean

…tors who misuse these terms have allies in people like Lindsey Graham, who buy into their twisted interpretations, turning one of the most fundamental phrases of the Islamic faith into a “war chant” simply because a few yahoos run around shouting it after some ghastly act. When the Westboro Baptist Church says “Thank God for 9/11” and “Praise the Lord for dead US soldiers” few would argue that “Thank God” or “Praise the Lord” are somehow inextrica…

American Virgin Doesn’t Quite Get It

By Gabriel Mckee

…blems are exacerbated by some character inconsistencies. It’s difficult to buy Adam as a conservative Christian once we’ve seen him in bondage gear in issue #7. Like the evangelical world he comes from, Adam’s own faith is drawn in shorthand. He begins questioning his beliefs as soon as the series begins, so that before too long the “conservative” label doesn’t really stick. It’s hard to tell if Seagle is trying to get us to question the assumptio…

Katie Britt Wants You to Be Afraid — It’s the Fuel That Feeds Conservative Power

By Daniel Schultz

…nomenon. They’re simply an extension of the evangelical path of literally “buying into” the fold, stretching from contemporary Christian music to the Left Behind series to James Dobson’s books and cassette tapes—albeit with a much deeper reach than earlier iterations. The French philosopher Guy Debord criticized such performative attempts to fit in as “spectacle,” defined as social connection formed through participation in commodified identities….

New Poll: Americans Disagree with Hobby Lobby

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Americans are still divided about whether those couples should be able to buy a wedding cake from any baker they wish. According to the survey, 51% of respondents said that transgender people “should be allowed to use the public restrooms of the gender with which they currently identify.” Forty-nine percent of respondents said transgender people “should be required to use the public restrooms of the gender they were born into.” Though Pew laudabl…

Christian Publishing v. the Vagina

By Katie Toth

…ar that this book needs to be bought by these major stores. If they do not buy tons of copies of this book, we’ve got nothing here, because we’re probably not going to sell a lot into Barnes and Noble or the secular chains.” Metaxas believes that the industry’s sanitation of language makes it harder for Christian writers to spread their message. “This culture is starving for a robust, passionate Christian art,” he says. “For your average beginning…