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This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…ent toward cities, as hipster evangelicals plant new churches in New York, Chicago, and L.A. with names like The Journey, The Awakening, and Revolution. But Palin is not a hipster evangelical. She is, as she tells us over and over, a small town girl. And she grew up in a small town church, one with a fondness for spiritual war and a wariness of cosmopolitanism. “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” Palin…

Catholics Fire Back at Bishops’ Anti-Gay Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…to Palacios, the taxpayer-to-charity mix for Catholic Charities funding in Chicago is 87 to 3 (the remainder representing things like fees for services). He quoted ranges of taxpayer funding in other dioceses from 54 to 86 percent. Catholic Charities, he suggests, would more accurately be described as “Catholic contractors.” Palacios also pointed to a speech given earlier this year by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi in opposition to UN recognition of L…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…hing on the pastoral care of gay and lesbian persons. DePaul University in Chicago was the first Catholic college to establish an LGBTQ resource center, founded in 2003. In the proposal for the center, the committee cited a passage from Always Our Children, a document on the pastoral care of homosexual persons published by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1997: Respect for the God-given dignity of all persons means the recognition of hum…

How Evangelicalism’s Twin Seeds of Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism Spelled the End of Roe

By Austin Lee Steelman

…all matters, including history and science. He helped to organize the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, a document aimed at bringing together those who still called themselves fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals and at purging moderates willing to compromise on the all-important doctrine. But, like his mentor Machen, Schaeffer had two texts to save. The American Constitution, he argued, had been rooted in the “biblical worldview.” It…

Muslim Until Proven Innocent

By Haroon Moghul

…tter than does Mayor Bloomberg or the NYPD). The AP continues to release information which undermines and refutes the city’s changing defenses of its tactics, while mayors like Rahm Emanuel and Corey Booker distance themselves from Mayor Bloomberg’s police force’s tactics (More on Chicago.) Yesterday, I spoke with Dr. Sebastian Gorka from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Law Professor Sahar Aziz of Texas Wesleyan on Al Jazeera’s T…

Cardinal Who Once Compared Gay People to Klan Warns Church is Being “Despoiled”

By Sarah Posner

Small update below. Via the website Catholic Culture, Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George frets that Catholic hospitals will be forced to close down rather than comply with the contraceptive coverage requirement. In the process, Cardinal George, who has previously compared gay rights parades to the Ku Klux Klan, issues a parade of doozies, including a warning that the church is being “despoiled of her institutions.” George later apologized for th…

New Gallup Poll on Religion in Election Has Problems

By Sarah Posner

…tant Christian, and was a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, while Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Despite Protestants’ broad religious connection to Obama, they support Romney over Obama by a five-point margin in the April 19-23 tracking aggregate.” It’s silly for Gallup on the one hand to declare that “very religious” Protestants are the “functional equivalent” of evangelicals (which…

Paul Ryan: I Reject Ayn Rand, She’s an Atheist!

By Sarah Posner

…I enjoyed them,” Ryan says. “They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School and Milton Friedman,” a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. “But it’s a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.” “I reject her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody…

Methodists Vote to Keep Homosexuality “Incompatible”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a, a Brazilian-born music minister at a small conservative Hispanic UMC in Chicago, the presence of LGBT people and their allies at the convention is a strong witness to just how active the LGBT community already is in the church. “We’re here already. We’re lay members, we’re music ministers, we’re Sunday School teachers, secretaries and clergy. We are active. We are not a silent group of people sitting in the back row waiting to be recognized. We…

Obama Says His Faith Informed His Support for Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…r I’ll be as president. In 2004, Obama told a public television station in Chicago, “What I believe is that is between a man and a woman. What I believe, in my faith, is that a man and a woman, when they get married, are performing something before God, and it’s not simply the two persons who are meeting.” In 2010, he told progressive bloggers, “I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandi…