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Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…ous leaders from a variety of traditions. In the resolution, introduced in January, the Council notes that Asheville has a concentration of same-sex couples more than three times the national average, and that up to 12 percent of the city’s population are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Those residents are likely to consider a candidate’s position on their own rights before his religion. In 2010, Shuler faced a primary challenge from an…

Catholic Priests, Celibacy, and the Marriage Loophole

By Sara Ritchey

…son and other married clergy to achieve Catholic ordination. The growth in number of married Catholic priests in the U.S. stems from the increasing animosity of conservative Episcopalians who disagree primarily with the Anglican Communion’s ordination and promotion to the episcopacy of women and self-identifying, partnered gay people. This phenomenon, then, is due not to liberalizing papal canon as much as it is due to the Catholic Church taking a…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…than appointing them, was the subject of Parker’s First Friday lecture in January, because “elected judges are bulwarks against the agenda of the left.” “If you take a moment to think,” said Parker, “federal judges appointed for life have legalized abortion, homosexuality, pornography, same-sex marriages, and outlawed school prayer and the display of the Ten Commandments.” “When judges don’t rule in fear of the Lord,” he concluded, “all the found…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…h Synder. The photo was displayed the next day in the New York Daily News (January 14, 1928) with the headline “DEAD!” One million copies sold that day. The problem is not the desire to look; that’s much more human than we are willing to acknowledge. The problem is instead the need to find an adequate framework within which to view the images. Right now, voyeurs are consigned to underground clubs, cult films, and obscure-though-popular websites…

Religion, Marriage, and Maine’s Tortured Soul

By Peter Montgomery

…opportunities to do just that. Question 1 is scheduled to have limited release this fall with a national rollout in January….

Mormon-Baiting Pastor’s New Fame Should Help Him Sell His New Book

By Joanna Brooks

…st Gleaming (featuring a one-page foreword by Mike Huckabee) is due out in January. It predicts the end-times demise of the United States but counsels Christians on how they can make “America’s last days your best days” by being the “light” and “salt” of the world. Advance publicity for the book describes Jeffress as a media personality, listing a number of appearances he made in the wake of controversy that followed the Values Voter Summit. But g…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…d for around the clock. At the Texas Alliance for Life’s Rally for Life in January, where Gov. Perry was the keynote speaker, it was Kent who gave the benediction at the request of the group’s executive director Joe Pojman (who did not respond to interview requests). Had an Abortion? You’re Not a Second-Class Follower of Jesus I recently met Kent and his wife, Mary Anne, at their church north of downtown, in a corrugated metal warehouse building n…

Christian-Only Prayer Rally The Response Goes To Early Primary States

By Sarah Posner

…a rally in Cedar Rapids in December, ones in South Carolina and Florida in January don’t have some connection to the primary process. According to the website, the purpose of the rallies is “to call on Jesus on behalf of America, that He might hear our cry and that we would see a revolution of righteousness in this country.” The website states, “we will not rest until we see a righteous revolution awaken the church.” And, apparently, the presiden…

Where the Wild Things Aren’t Just Jewish

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…’s bombastic talking-head character during an instant-classic interview in January 2012. What’s interesting here is not Sendak’s own family (he had a partnership of a half-century and close friends who attended him in his final days). Rather, it is how Sendak’s work opens up new ways of considering Jewish families. Chosenness in some renderings—including those of American Jews themselves during the nineteenth century—was a matter of essentialized,…

Milwaukee Archdiocese, Under Dolan, Paid Sex Abusers to Leave Priesthood

By Sarah Posner

…he facts surrounding the attempts by priests’ lawyers, which resulted last January in Clohessy’s deposition in a case involving a priest accused of abuse in Kansas City, Mo. After making numerous references to the transcript of that deposition, which was released March 2, Donohue asks: “So is David Clohessy a sincere man driven by the pursuit of justice? Or is he a con artist driven by revenge? It may very well be that the former description aptly…