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Kim Davis, County Clerk, is Not a Person

By Ivan Strenski

…e been unlucky enough to have trespassed. Public offices are not like the “businesses” Tony Soprano “owns,” the use for which you have to pay what he demands on top of the cost of service. Tony’s “businesses” are very personal things, part of himself. And, thinking this way about public offices is precisely what defines “corruption” means. Flip the coin, and just as Kim Davis does not own the County clerkship, despite her mother having served in i…

Mainline Protestantism a Shambles? Tell Us Something We Haven’t Heard

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…eryone spineless wimps who stand for nothing except vague and gooey middle-class niceness. —Clueless 19th-century rationalist holdovers who still believe it’s possible to look at things objectively because, I don’t know, our schooling was so full of Moustache Grooming 101, practicums in The Care of Tweed Frock Coats, and private lessons in Somber Intonation that we simply never got around to critiques of modernity, or something. Pretty impressive,…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…essential to neoliberal democratic citizenship. In addition, it creates a class of sexual and racial outsiders whose alleged regressiveness enables the (typically white, typically economically advantaged) citizen’s own homophobia to be discursively projected onto an uncivilized other. Many gay people who enjoy ethnic and class privilege have themselves espoused homonationalism, endorsing neoliberal privatization, anti-immigrant laws, institutiona…

Publisher Withdraws History of Hinduism, Amid Protest

By Laurie Patton

…which criminalized “the deliberate act intended to outrage feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.” And Section 295A was indeed subsequently enacted by the British because of the escalation of communal violence involving Muslims, Hindus, and other religious groups. As Shoaib Daniyal writes, Even at the time though, there was unease over the implications of the bill. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who was a member of the committ…

Obama Criticizes Black Fatherhood

By Jonathan L. Walton

…g practices commonly attributed to the black poor serves to bolster middle class privilege by distancing the black church from the perceived deviant mores of “ghetto” society. The black church is thus able to obscure its own gross patriarchy and self-indulgent tendencies that are as American as Wall Street greed. On the personal level, by saying “Amen” to such accusatory and self-righteous rhetoric, individuals are able to reaffirm their own sense…

Just Give ‘Em a Little Jesus: Black Marriage Meets White Paternalism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…urches are often the most prominent providers of social welfare in working-class and middle-class African-American communities. Given these disparities, some churches may in fact provide a path out of recidivism because they are literally the only accessible avenue for cultural and communal connection in neighborhoods devastated by economic depression. But to suggest that recidivism is the most salient measure of black male “flourishing” ignores t…

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

By Eric Reitan

…ation in America. Santorum’s anti-intellectual populism, aimed at working class Americans “who go out and work hard every day… [but aren’t] taught by some liberal college professor [who is] trying to indoctrinate them,” isn’t a new development. In fact, he’s used this exact language before, as when he questioned federal support for colleges and universities on the grounds that they are “indoctrination centers of the left.” Not unlike much of what…

Intelligent Design Trial Celebrates Fifth Year Reunion

By Lauri Lebo

…es struck down the teaching of intelligent design in public school science class as unconstitutional, writing that it was merely revamped creationism posing as a scientific theory. For many of us who were involved in the trial (I was a reporter at the local newspaper at the time who covered it), it was a life-changing experience. As I’ve said many many times, Kitzmiller v. Dover was this bright shiny moment at a very unsettling time in our nation’…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…tual-but-not-religious sensibility that pervades the North American middle class, and they do so with a mostly appreciative attitude. From Shrinking Churches to ‘Cultural Victory’ Intellectual historian David Hollinger has spent the past decade writing about the overlooked social, cultural, and political achievements of liberal Protestantism, now collected in After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History. In Embatt…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…with money and time to spend. Many of them hold down regular jobs in small businesses or corporate America: they are teachers and college students, massage therapists and social workers, lawyers and emergency room physicians. They staff what Burners have dubbed “the default world” and keep it running, even though they come to the desert to escape it. Desert Pilgrimage The main road to the Black Rock Desert is a seemingly endless two-lane highway r…