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Marriage Equality Is the Next Roe v. Wade… And That’s Okay

By Patricia Miller

…rcent of Americans agreed that first trimester abortion should be legal in December of 1969, but that number increased to 50 percent in May of 1971 and to 57 percent in January of 1972. By contrast, the Post reports that the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC Poll found that 59 percent of Americans support same sex marriage, up from 30 percent in 2004. If a lack of popular support for abortion doesn’t explain the backlash against Roe, what does a…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…oliness the Dalai Lama, and visited the monumental Buddhist statues on Sri Lanka—they were to be the inspiration for what was to be his final artistic and mystic vision. Then, almost as mysteriously as that Buddha’s smile, Merton was gone. Clearly exhausted, he gave a rather poor performance in Bangkok and then, before retiring to his room for a nap, he uttered what were to be his final public words: “Now I will disappear.” He returned to his room…

An Interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin on the Feminist and Abolitionist Founder Who Has Slipped into a Memory Hole

By Andrew L. Seidel

…One of the brilliant themes in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton—whose closing number is “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”—concerns the stories we as a nation tell about our Founders, something Raskin invokes. “The absence of a Paine memorial in Washington is a real problem in our political culture. So much of the pop culture debate today is a fight between the fans of Hamilton and Jefferson.” Hamilton’s “scrappy biography” has been so crea…

Is Religion a Game?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…w 1429 and for many Jews it’s 5769. And this apocalyptic Mayan thing about December 21, 2012 only illuminates the creative poverty of Eurocentrism by misunderstanding that “2012” even exists on a Mayan calendar. The Mayan calendar represents a different world from that of the modern West; we may play in it, but we can’t really live in it. The point of all this is that there are multiple, interwoven, concentric worlds that simultaneously exist on t…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…mselves that they might then help others privately and voluntarily. God’s plan, in short, is the libertarian plan mixed with Christian self-restraint; for capitalism without morality is anarchy. Much of this is standard-issue conservative economic script, of course. But to this familiar story, Ramsey adds his theology, giving divine imprimatur to a particular and historically bound set of ideas. Wielding the Book of Proverbs and Zig Ziglar, where…

Is “Racist” Jesus Lawsuit Against The Met Already a Success?

By Andre E. Johnson

In December a lawsuit was filed against the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City claiming that the artwork of Jesus hanging on the museum’s walls is “racist propaganda” because the pieces depict Jesus as white. Noting that the Met receives “millions in taxpayer funds,” Justin Joseph, the New York City resident who filed the federal lawsuit, argues that this makes it “government speech” and that the government should not support speech that…

Senators Can and Must Ask About Nominees’ Religious Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…VI is sublime. First, it declares the Constitution the “supreme law of the land,” and lays out the two provisions that are important in this discussion. First, it says that state and federal officials “shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.” The next clause immediately adds, “but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The central question in…

The Myth of the Pro-Life Swing Voter the Dems Must Chase

By Daniel Schultz

…er Democrat. But this article makes far too many common mistakes. It’s unbalanced. It takes people with clear agendas at their word. It imputes support for those people outside their own circle without much evidence. And worst of all, it does this: An AP-NORC poll taken in December found that 45% of Catholics backed significant restrictions that would make abortion illegal except in cases of rape, incest, or threats to a mother’s life. Among Democ…

Pope Benedict’s 2006 Islamophobia Controversy Wasn’t an Isolated Incident — Islamophobia is an Integral Part of His Theological Legacy

By Wendy Mallette

Since Benedict XVI’s death on December 31, 2022, a flurry of reflections have emerged about the former Pope as a renowned professor, influential theologian, and “one of the most conservative pontiffs in recent memory.” Many of these recollections mention—sometimes apologetically—his infamous 2006 lecture in which he quoted a 15th century Byzantine emperor who described the words of Muhammad as “evil and inhuman.” Sohrab Ahmari’s piece in the New…

Is “Israel-Firster” Anti-Semitic?

By Sarah Posner

…und there and what Wildman has called a “mythical” vision of Israel as the land of milk and honey. Remnick: Although Israel as imagined by Theodor Herzl and built by the generation of David Ben-Gurion was never intended to be a replica of the Anglo-American model—its political culture, even now, is closer to that of the European social democracies—its structures of governance are points of pride. And yet, as an experiment in Jewish power, unique a…