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More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e group did not get a private meeting with Pope Francis, but was given VIP tickets to the pope’s weekly audience in St. Peter’s square. Religion News Service reports that several bishops, including “San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone – point man or the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ battle against gay marriage – had written a letter to the Vatican on their behalf.” A group of LGBT Catholics from London who met up with the New Ways…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…omething-year-old Deadhead guys hit on my teenage friends by offering them tickets to shows. Deadheads were anathema to my chosen subculture of socially conscious punks. East Bay punks were aggro and in your face about social justice, feminism, human rights; Deadheads, in our eyes, were too stoned and obsessed with their god Jerry to care. Sometimes, I’d be out in Berkeley at night, coming out of a punk show in some basement or garage, and I’d hea…

Jerry Brown’s Cynical, Unethical Prison Plan

By Peter Laarman

…e a single additional prisoner”), there is a very good chance that Brown’s plan will clear the Assembly as early as tomorrow, after which he will put the screws to Democrats in the State Senate on Thursday. No one should be fooled when the “other” Jerry Brown benignly quotes various church fathers and doctors or waxes philosophical on the thinking of Josiah Royce or on the weltanshauung of Rainer Maria Rilke (yes, Brown likes to show off his erudi…

White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…ult Fox News: The new Obama health care law requires that employer health plans provide birth control coverage as part of preventive services for women. Catholic and other religious-affiliatedhospitals and universities typically have not provided any birth control coverage for their employees, and oppose the new requirement because it violates their religious rights. Overall, do you approve or disapprove of requiring employer health plans to cove…

God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…propaganda. To illustrate the linking of abortion with genocide, images of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger are stamped with Nazi swastikas. Historically revisionist assessments of Planned Parenthood conveniently omit the connections many early 20th century progressive black activists made between family planning, birth control, abortion, and black liberation. Tellingly, such figures as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mary McLeod Bethune,…

Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau

By Jay Michaelson

…-out doesn’t really work. Since the angels possess a written copy of God’s plan, there’s no way to know ex ante whether Norris’ disobedience is All Part Of The (Meta-)Plan or just plain old disobedience. At one crucial moment in the film, Norris looks into his beloved’s eyes and says “this just can’t be wrong.” Certainly, this is an experience I can relate to, as can anyone who’s fallen in love with someone of the “wrong” gender, religion, or ethn…

Glenn Beck Has a Plan

By Julie Ingersoll

…re will be busses there from all over the country when Beck announces “the Plan.” While he’s said very little about the Plan, or who the other speakers will be, Beck has “discovered” a medal of merit George Washington awarded and, characteristically lacking in humility, has decided to reestablish the practice of the founding father. When he announced Palin’s participation, he had this to say: In 1780 George Washington developed a badge of merit. I…

For Many Christian Zionists, Israeli Protesters are a Threat to God’s Plan

By Aidan Orly

…, which is, according to some biblical interpretations, essential to God’s plan for salvation. It’s important to note that Christian Zionist movements include tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people around the globe who undoubtedly take a range of positions on the Israeli protests, and even on Israel itself. In an ongoing debate, some scholars have challenged the notion that End-Times theology is a significant factor for many Christian Zionis…

‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning

By Chrissy Stroop

…o some IUDs, which, in addition to preventing fertilization, can prevent implantation of fertilized eggs, and very likely Plan B (despite the fact that, contrary to popular belief, it does not work by preventing the implantation of fertilized eggs). And there is no reason to believe that birth control won’t be tackled in separate bills. Indeed, right-wingers are already strategizing about possible contraception bans. The horrors playing out in Okl…

Little Sisters: When Exemptions Are Not Enough

By Sarah Posner

…n fully protected by the federal law for their entire careers before their plans applied for church plan status,” PRC writes. According to Politico this morning, an unnamed White House official is “confident that our final rules strike the balance of providing women with free contraceptive coverage while preventing non-profit religious employers with religious objections to contraceptive coverage from having to contract, arrange, pay, or refer fo…