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A Tale of Two Abortion Narratives: Dems Overreaching on Abortion?

By Daniel Schultz

Instead of simply popping a cork over Dan Gilgoff’s latest, I’d like to offer an alternative narrative, one suggested by Adele Stan, among others. To wit: while the new Pew poll on abortion might signal some real drift toward pro-life positions, the evidence is ambiguous. It’s just as likely that the changes Pew is picking up on stem from a simultaneous hardening of Republican opposition and slackening of concern on the Democratic side, while abo…

Burning Books, Arresting The Pope, And The Death Of The Tea Party

By The Editors

In the latest installment of RD’s collaboration with Bloggingheads.tv, associate editor Sarah Posner and The American Conservative contributing editor Michael Brendan Dougherty talk about the overemphasis on Qur’an burning over other forms of Islamophobia, whether the Pope should be arrested, and religion in the tea party movement. Also: is the tea party’s demise imminent? To view the whole ‘diavlog’ click below. To view separate clips go to the…

Nashville Cats Play Dumb As Backwards Preachers

By Daniel Schultz

…from supporting it. If you don’t know the statement in question, it is the latest in a series of such pronouncements from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, a group of evangelical Christian leaders dedicated to fostering “Biblical Sexuality.” In other words, making sure everybody stays in their lane with their naughty bits and doesn’t freak the squares. You may think this characterization oversimplified. Sadly, no. I hope Religion Disp…

Aspirin as Birth Control, Shazam! and the GOP’s Crusade Against Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…chor Andrea Mitchell picked her jaw up off the floor. As I heard about the latest installment of the 2012 Presidential Campaign Time Travels To Another Millenium, while I was across town in a Congressional hearing room, my first thought was that no one should tell the Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that aspirin could be used as birth control. First, they’d believe it, and second, they’d start a crusade to make s…

Is it Fair to Question Rand Paul’s Religiosity?

By Sarah Posner

…d Paul, uses reporting from a GQ article about Paul’s college days, in his latest political ad: According to the August GQ piece, as a student at Baylor University, Paul, among other things, belonged to a secret society called NoZe, which aspired to blasphemy, and, while stoned, kidnapped a woman, tied her up, and demanded that she worship the Aqua Buddha. (Paul has denied kidnapping anyone, but the GQ piece has photos of him with his NoZe brother…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…edia theorist Sherry Turkle, for example, registers growing concern in her latest book Alone Together (2012), but her primary worry is that a reliance upon technology blinds us to what real connection asks of us, and what it can offer. But what of the additional invisible ways that technology shapes everything we do, feel, or imagine possible? This is more than a question of being offline and online, but rather requires a reconsideration of the wa…

Contraband Valentine

By Svend White

…then there’s Saudi’s long history of oppressing Sufis and Shiahs. So this latest Valentine’s Day farce in the Kingdom illustrates succinctly why I and many other Muslims often find ourselves shaking our heads at the happenings in the Arabian Peninsula and decidedly uneasy over the tendency of observers to conflate Saudi religious policy with Islam. Sure, the Kingdom is proverbially strict and militantly “traditional” (at times schizophrenically s…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor Sarah Morice-Brubaker explores how some conservative Christians channel their anxieties about social change and urban environments through imaginary, fake-transgender bathroom predators. For more on blame, read the introductory post or explore the full series. “The desert was a ‘counter-world,’ a place where an alternative ‘city’ co…

Forty Years Ago, the Worst Mass Murder of LGBT People in the U.S.

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…that this MCC met in on the day this fire was set. Forty years later, the latest data from the National Congregations Study reveals that “Nearly three in ten U.S. congregations permit gays and lesbians in committed relationships to hold volunteer leadership positions, a major increase from the 19 percent of congregations in 2006-2007 that allowed such opportunities.” The litany of denominations that have changed their stance toward LGBT people, n…

Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

…eclarations that pro-gun Christians “aren’t really Christians” at all. The latest brouhaha involves the clownish Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert, who faces a primary challenge from a state politician with a more respectable image in a contest that will be decided later this month. The American Muckrakers PAC, which infamously released the salacious Madison Cawthorn nude “horseplay” video, is hoping to take Boebert down in the same way they…