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Gorsuch Confirmed… But Don’t Get Too Bent Out of Shape

By Sunnivie Brydum

…American shenanigans the GOP has subjected the American people to over the past decade. But let’s not kid ourselves. A Supreme Court with Justice Gorsuch seated is no more deeply conservative than it was with Justice Scalia on the bench. Despite the apparent similarities between Gorsuch and Scalia, I actually believe Justice Gorsuch’s legacy will more closely mirror that of Chief Justice John Roberts. Both are reliable conservatives, and jurists w…

Is Terry Jones the Death Rattle of the White Male Protestant?

By Gary Laderman

…e symbolic head of the body politic? And it is certainly the case that the Republican Party has been taken over by a predominantly white, religiously conservative, and aggressively nationalistic Tea Party hoping to snuff out any signs of political muscle by moderates. But rather than provide succor and reassurance for WMHCC, the Tea Party has its own agenda—willing to sell out their souls to big money, fixate on the national debt while the rest of…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…day. – eds Late last month, after federal authorities arrested a Tennessee pastor on charges of aiding and abetting an international parental kidnapping, students at Liberty University Law School saw one of their exam questions come to life. The pastor was charged with helping Lisa Miller, an “ex”-lesbian, abscond to Nicaragua with her young daughter Isabella after she flouted a series of court orders requiring Isabella’s visitation with Miller’s…

Devil’s Bookmark: Sex and Drugs and Hating God

By Bernard Schweizer

…ul God to a dog’s view of his master. And since France was an anarchist sympathizer, he was out of patience with any kind of centralized authority; hence his disdain for Yahweh. But he also viewed any form of social stratification with a jaundiced eye; hence his spoofing of the angelic hierarchy. Revolt of the Angels reminds us that the Christian angelic hierarchy is composed of different spheres or “choirs” (depending on what theologian one follo…

Mike Lee’s Father: Constitution Not Scripture

By Joanna Brooks

…or Mike Lee, his father the former US Solicitor General Rex Lee, and the impact of Cleon Skousen on contemporary LDS conservative thought. He included an excerpt from a 1991 address delivered by Rex Lee when he was president of Brigham Young University: “From the general label ‘divinely inspired,’ some assume that the Constitution is tantamount to scripture, and therefore perfect in every respect, reflecting in every provision and every sentence t…

Irish PM Scathing Denunciation of Vatican

By Anthea Butler

…ering position being the polar opposite of the radicalism, humility and compassion upon which the Roman Church was founded.” The Irish Prime Minister’s impassioned rebuke is a welcome breath of fresh air from the stench that has wafted from the Tiber and the seat of Peter. No matter if Pope Benedict XVI has met with the abused; the continued, rampant malfeasance of the church with regard to quickly and decisively adjudicating sex abuse cases conti…

Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Headed for NC Vote

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…constitution, thanks to Democratic control of their legislature. Now that Republicans rule the roost, the measure has passed, even as the state’s unemployment rate is 10.1 percent. House Majority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake opened the floor debate this way: “The question is are we going to let the people decide, or judicial decisions based on the Supreme Court decisions of a half-dozen other states?” Which is interesting because Stam would not allow…

What the USCCB’s New “Religious Liberty” Initiative Took from Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

…rector and anti-bullying activist Kevin Jennings, in the fight over the Stupak amendment and health care reform, and in other instances in which a particular version of Christianity does not get enshrined in the law. The coalescing between evangelicals and Catholics over this supposed “religious liberty” issue became official with the 2009 release of the Manhattan Declaration, hailed by its authors as a glorious “ecumenism” because evangelicals, C…

Darrell Issa’s Show Trial
on Alleged Obama Administration “Anti-Catholic Bias”

By Sarah Posner

…zen or so men talked about them (with brief questioning by the anti-choice Republican Anne Marie Buerkle and the pro-choice Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton). Two Catholics, though, stepped up to contest the Republican charges of anti-Catholic bias. Gerald Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, noted that in spite of “USCCB’s lobbying against Administration priorities,” HHS awarded many other grants to the USCCB, and that “federal funding for Catholic Chari…

Making Fun of Mormonism

By Max Mueller

…rship, tapping into this unlimited potential takes a fairly workaday form: participating in time-consuming church service, forming heterosexual couples with the purpose of raising faithful Mormon children, and succeeding in the corporate world. The second reason for the ongoing discussion of Mormons’ “weird” beliefs is political. Mormons are the last (or at least the latest) religious “other” to confront the heart of American politics, to deem the…