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The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…et what they want,” Mother Teresa said, and went on to suggest adoption be promoted as an alternative to abortion. “Please don’t kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child.” Mother Teresa’s pro-life fans swooned, with many giving the nun a standing ovation. The Clintons remained seated, yet both—particularly the ever-politic Hillary—understood how behind-the-scenes power politics work within the Christian Right, and responded to th…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…s” to advance a plot. See here for the full list of discussions so far, or sign up here for the RSS feed. Diane Winston_________________ Sunday, February 7. Fellow Capricologists: What did you make of the centrality of the news to “Reins of the Waterfall,” this week’s episode? On an earlier post, I’d joked about Ron Moore’s nod to newspapers with the debut of The Caprican on the SyFy Web page. But this week’s clips from Cap2 News, the Caprica Tr…

Capricology: Week 2: The Soul of a Robot

By Salman Hameed

…ve some throwaway lines about Uncle Sam Adama’s tattoos, which we are told signal to others in his community who he is and what he has done. His “tats” are a kind of information appliance which has been inked directly onto his body—and indeed, this is often the way tattoos function in contemporary criminal societies—as markers of affiliation, as statements of fidelity, and as records of accomplishments. Is there any parallels to be drawn here betw…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…first episode here.] See here for the full list of discussions so far, or sign up here for the RSS feed. Diane Winston ___________________________ Comrades, Capricsters, Y’all (or simply Anthea, Henry and Salman): If there had just been the BSG miniseries – Dayeinu If there had been the miniseries and four seasons of BSG – Dayeinu If there had been the miniseries, the four seasons, and the Caprica pilot – Dayeinu But The Caprican? At the very m…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…to be held accountable for their racism. Too many people are hearing this coded rhetoric and deciding that the real problem with the economy must be folks of color, immigrants, and the Jews.” During the last period of Patriot and militia growth in the mid-1990s, Ward witnessed this coded racist rhetoric being tested in the margins of the right-wing media, though it has since moved into the mainstream. In the past year I’ve interviewed dozens of a…

Oppose Afghanistan But Not a Pacifist? Tough.

By Gabriella Lettini

…ghborhoods like Beverly Hills. But economics are not the whole story. Some sign up, as many did in World War II, because they want to fight a war they support. Lt. Ehren Watada, a college graduate, enlisted after 9/11 because he wanted to defend his country. Instead, he became the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq—he believed ordering soldiers to fight would make him a war criminal. He volunteered to go to Afghanistan or to r…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…s more, many early Zionists were ashamed of their weakness, seeing it as a sign that Jews were “abnormal.” They expected to escape all those feelings once they had their own independent nation, with its own armed forces. It doesn’t seem to have worked out that way. They have the power, to be sure (by various accounts, the fourth, fifth, or sixth most effective military in the world) which they frequently put on display. But all that expenditure of…

Christians to Conservative Conference: Gays, No! Birchers, Yes!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sociation of Michigan, was one of the first social conservative leaders to sign the letter. He believes CPAC’s embrace of GOProud is symptomatic of a broader problem — what he calls the “dumbing down of the pro-family stand in the public policy arena.” If “dumbing down” is something that concerns Glenn, why isn’t he, Falwell and their cohorts protesting against another co-sponsor of next year’s event: The John Birch Society. Calling the Birchers “…

Conservative and Liberal Voices Combine to Condemn Anti-Gay Ugandan Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n called the “Karl Rove of Hispanic evangelical strategy.” Another notable signer is Mercer University professor and author David Gushee, who has refused to sign the Manhattan Declaration. Other names on the statement are no surprise like Rev. Debra Haffner from the Religious Institute, which strongly supports LGBT rights. I’m glad to see other names, including Geoffrey Black, the general minister of my own denomination, the United Church of Chris…

Campaigns of Omission

By Sarah Posner

…bsumed into a moderate image. The hard right is the new normal. In another sign the culture wars aren’t over, anti-gay activists in Maine successfully overturned a state law legalizing gay marriage. Some LGBT rights activists are angry that Obama, reprising his refusal to take a position in the Proposition 8 campaign in California last year, didn’t weigh in on Maine’s referendum, which repealed a law passed in the state legislature and signed by t…