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Pope Francis Praised for ‘Civil Unions’ Comment, But Justice Begins at Home—In the Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…ntries offered (and some still offer) civil unions. Statistics are hard to come by, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the vast majority of couples who formed civil unions were same sex partners who enjoyed the same kinds of relationships, including sex and children if they so choose, as their hetero-married counterparts. What they did not enjoy before marriage equality was the many financial and social benefits that come with marriage. That is…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…rer setting out to find an alternate route to Asia for spices, to the more complex and unsympathetic readings, Columbus as origin myth is a Rorschach test in which Americans see either the America they want to “make great again” or the America they want to see live up to its promises. Italian Americans’ embrace of Columbus during the early 20th century can be tied to their quest to assimilate into the largely hostile white Protestant society that…

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

…the centuries. I see the Jefferson Bible as a kind of spiritual Rorschach test. Just as with the founding fathers themselves, it’s easy to see what we want to see. Especially since Jefferson didn’t write any of this. He simply edited, and so there’s a lot of interpretation that can be done in terms of the very act of making the Jefferson Bible. He explained the reasons for making the book in his correspondence, but there’s nothing in the book its…

Glenn Beck Takes on Liberation Theology

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…, Martin Luther King Jr., and James Cone remind us of is that the ultimate test of any community or identity is how it manages that border between what is known and what is outside. We live in a country that has a long history of sometimes doing that well and sometimes doing that in horrific ways. Glenn Beck plays on the edge of that border all the time. The thing about grace is that it removes the line altogether and gives us a completely differe…

Welcome to the “Career College” Scam

By Peter Laarman

…r fraud and abuse is that career colleges must be able to demonstrate that underachieving students have the “ability to benefit” from federal aid programs. The schools will stop at nothing to fudge this. The loan default rate for career college students is over 23%, compared to 9.5 percent for students attending conventional colleges and universities. And lest anyone imagine that we are talking about small dollars here, the proprietary school indu…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…ritique is the same as mine: this program will significantly add to the burden of underachieving poor children, making them double losers as students who attend “loser” schools in a mad scramble for funding. There are other problems, of course, some having partly to do with the carelessness with which the states enacted the desperate measures needed in order even to qualify for RTTT funding. My home town newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, recently…

A New Book By Esteemed Sociologist Robert Wuthnow Struggles to Show ‘Why Religion is Good for American Democracy’

By Peter Laarman

…rough his Reagan-inflected “personal responsibility” bill in 1996. I was roundly denounced by ostensibly progressive clergy colleagues—and by several ostensibly liberal newspaper columnists—for getting my morals wrong; these distinguished leaders insisted that Giuliani was entirely correct in forcing poor young mothers to sweep streets and rake leaves in order to receive the money needed to feed their children—that it was these women’s morality th…

New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

By David R. Brockman

…tributions to Christian Americanist groups and politicians. The Thirteen Foundation, founded by Farris and his wife, gave WallBuilders $3 million in 2015, while Dan Wilks’ Heavenly Father’s Foundation has helped to fund California-based David Lane’s “Pastors and Pews,” a nationwide effort encouraging pastors to preach about politics and connecting them with right-wing and Christian nationalist activists, like Barton and Mike Huckabee. (Lane himsel…

There’s no Legal Reason for Churches to Receive Quarantine Exceptions

By Chrissy Stroop

…e right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community…to communicable disease.’” Fish also maintains that there’s no case for such exemptions under RFRA legislation. RFRA laws, Fish explains, hold that “any government action that substantially burdens religious exercise must be narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling government interest and be the least restrictive means of achieving that interest.” And, he argues,…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…e Allied Commander who conveniently joined the Presbyterian Church after becoming president, was canny enough to realize that God could be weaponized to defeat the Soviet Menace. How odd, then, that this ostensibly anticommunist Christian force later became the vessel of Russian skulduggery to undermine American democracy through its embrace of people like convicted Russian agent Butina. But I digress. Thanks to Doug Coe’s astonishing prestidigita…