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Utah’s New Senator And The Intellectual Decline Of LDS Conservatism

By Joanna Brooks

…an his own father, Rex Lee (1935–1996). Lee the father was a University of Chicago-trained jurist, founding dean of the Brigham Young University Law School, and Solicitor General of the United States under Reagan. A conservative, to be sure. A legal advocate capable of cagey instrumental reasoning in the service of an anti-progressive agenda, as in his work against the Equal Rights Amendment. But also, in his own way, urbane and pragmatic, and cap…

RI Civil Unions Religious Exemption Sets Dangerous Precedent

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…manner possible. Governor Lincoln Chafee reluctantly signed the bill. The Chicago Tribune noted that he had wanted full marriage equality for gay and lesbian citizens of his state: Describing the proposal that passed the tiny New England state’s Senate this week as “a step forward,” he said it did not fully achieve its goals of giving same gender pairs the same rights, benefits, protections and responsibilities as married couples. The new law inc…

How Evangelicals Pick Presidents

By Sarah Posner

…a deployed the same line when trying to court conservative evangelicals in Chicago in 2008, evidence that Democrats still don’t have their own blueprint for religious outreach.) In 2000, Texas once again served as the anointing spot for a GOP president. In his hagiographic The Faith of George W. Bush, Stephen Mansfield reports on a 1999 meeting between Bush, then (like Perry) Governor of Texas, Karl Rove, and Robison, after which Robison conclude…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…a lesbian’s request for infertility treatment, and an ambulance driver in Chicago to turn away a woman who needed transportation for an abortion. Opposing conscience protections is just like requiring Muslims to sign loyalty oaths, isn’t it? George couldn’t just say Cain is wrong and leave it at that. He had to compare Cain’s McCarthy-esque Islamophobia to opposition to health care providers refusing necessary, legal treatments on religious groun…

Obama’s Preaching Doesn’t Reach

By Anthea Butler

…speech excoriating absent black fathers at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, and his comments on the campaign trail in 2008 in Beaumont, Texas urging black parents “not to feed their kids cold Popeye’s chicken for breakfast,” are just two examples of how Obama deploys this racially-coded rhetorical strategy. The president’s behavior since taking office towards the African American community has been either to tell black folks to get in line…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…n of Labor, and even the IWW attracted significant religious allies. Large numbers of clergy and religiously-based lay activists rallied behind the industrial union surge of the 1930s. Yale Divinity School’s Liston Pope became a national labor advocate during the ’30s and ’40s. The Brothers Niebuhr and the Brothers Reuther spoke pretty much the same language—and I don’t mean German. During the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights heroes like King and Hes…

Turn Off, Slow Down, Drop In: The Digital Generation Reinvents the Sabbath

By Elizabeth Drescher

…entless deluge of information constantly comes at us every day on our smartphones and computers,” says Schevitz. But this is not always the case. As Schoenfeld notes, “If you live in an isolated, rural area where there is not a Jewish community, not driving a car on Shabbat has a very different effect in terms of your connections to others than it does for someone in a city. That doesn’t mean you don’t observe the law, but that observance will me…

Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…be. Early on in the film, “Joliet” Jake Blues (John Belushi) knocks around Chicago with his brother, Elwood (Dan Akroyd), trying to figure out what to do as a newly released ex-con. Soon enough, he has an epiphany: he and his brother should restart the R&B band they formed before Jake went to prison and use the proceeds from the band’s gigs to save the orphanage where the brothers grew up. When he has this revelatory insight, Jake isn’t listening…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…are pro-choice. It was a day for papal flags, banners like “Archdiocese of Chicago,” handmade life-size crosses, and even a gold crozier that someone brought along to add gravitas, or maybe just in place of a cane. It was hard to make out from my perch in an office along the route, but I thought I saw a reliquary go by. I shudder to think what was in it. There were statues of various saints and of the Blessed Virgin Mary in several of her varietie…

Why I’m Not Watching the State of the Union Address

By Daniel Schultz

…in 1987, back when the future president was still a community organizer on Chicago’s south side. In fact, I don’t think Obama is a sellout or a Wall-Street lapdog, as some people have suggested. I believe that he is a generally moderate-to-liberal technocrat who honestly believes that he can do right by both big money and the little folks. And therein lies the problem. When your vision of economic leadership involves buzzwords like “competitivenes…