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High School Senior Leads Effort to Repeal Louisiana Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…have never been passed in the first place, one based on intelligent design-promoter Discovery Institute’s sample “Academic Freedom” bills, which paves the way for sneaking creationism into science class. While lawmakers have denied the law has anything to do with inserting creationism into science class, I’ve written about how members of Louisiana school boards interpret the law here. Admittedly, Kopplin and other supporters of the Constitution in…

Catholic Church Targets Proponent of Women’s Ordination; Feminist Theologian

By Mary E. Hunt

…hops’ Committee on Doctrine declared that Professor Elizabeth A. Johnson’s latest book, Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God (NY: Continuum, 2007) contains “misrepresentations, ambiguities, and errors that bear upon the faith of the Catholic Church.” Or, as the bishops insist, it “contaminates the traditional Catholic understanding of God.” At issue is nothing less than how we engage in theological reflection in postm…

Sex Is More Fun than Lying

By Sarah Posner

…blogging will be light or possibly nonexistent. So I’ll leave you with the latest religion Bloggingheads which I taped earlier this week with Michael Brendan Dougherty of the American Conservative. We discussed Michael’s new cover story on religion and the Tea Party (a topic RD readers are certainly familiar with), although we delved into some of the foreign policy divides within religious conservatism — basically the Armadeggon-ites versus the no…

Which Side Are You On?

By Daniel Schultz

…will stand up and call the people of God out into the street to oppose the latest iteration of Pharaoh.* In the meantime, the people are doing a pretty good job of getting ready to leave Egypt all on their own, and we’re stuck wondering why it is nobody thinks we’re relevant anymore. *Harold Meyerson calls Scott Walker “the cheddarhead pharaoh.” Update: No sooner have I spoken than a religious voice weighs in – on the side of the unions. Jerome Li…

Palin’s Prayer Shield

By Anthea Butler

…ed to him about how “dumb” Palin is. A former aide, Frank Bailey, has been promoting his negative book about Palin, Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, released this week. Bailey’s book is also competing against Geoffery Dunn’s latest book, The Lies of Sarah Palin. With the unflattering books and criticism from her boss at Fox, you’d think that she would back off from running for president. Au contraire! Should Palin enter the race (and I am betting…

Note to the Tax-Slashers:
We Are Already Serfs

By Peter Laarman

…that in the individual states now facing budget crises—Minnesota being the latest example—the dynamic is exactly the same as in Washington DC: Everyone must sacrifice to balance the budget except for the only people in society who have continued to do very well during the Great Recession: the top 20 percent and the top 5 percent in particular. My question is why there is still no significant religious component in movements like US Uncut, which or…

Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…he languid, almost unbearable restraint of the music, particularly on this latest recording, constantly strains against the mythically dark stories of the characters’ individual lives. The understated, even mannered, songs tell hyperbolic character tales. In “Tennessee,” a girl-gone-wrong song, a gentle guitar and swaying melody gives voice to a character who learned to sing hosannas on my knees, was corrupted by the feel of whiskers on her cheek,…

The Battle Beneath the Battle: Do Gay People Exist?

By Jay Michaelson

…intellectual reasons, LGBT activists are loathe to base our rights on the latest scientific or pseudo-scientific data. This strikes me as wise. But as I talk about these issues with folks in the “movable middle,” I’ve noticed that the reluctant allies, semi-supportive family members, and more-or-less-convinceable moderates come to pro-gay conclusions for the reasons Lady Gaga identified: because gay people are born that way. So it does matter, po…

By the Numbers: All Religious Affiliations Pro-Choice Except White Evangelicals

By The Editors

…to decoupling religious affiliation from views on reproductive rights, the latest survey from the Public Religion Research Institute yields data with significant implications for elections and election coverage. The misnamed “values voter,” a mythical beast whose voting values consisted primarily of opposition to legal abortion and marriage equality, is in a state of major decline. To the extent that the pro-choice/pro-life binary is a useful one…

Methodists Move Toward LGBT Inclusion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…an proposal to allow gay and lesbian clergy was defeated in the Presbyteries—with narrower margins than the two previous votes, until this year, when the margin finally favored gay and lesbian clergy. If these latest moves do not prove to be the ultimate tipping point for the Methodists, then we may well be witnessing the beginning of a trajectory toward inclusion similar to the Presbyterian journey….