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Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…re the news of his crimes hit. But it could, so it would, and it did. This latest twist about lifting immunity is meant to convince that they were really doing the right thing all along. It rings suspiciously hollow. A certain slime factor hovers over this case—evil so deep and enduring that few people want to talk about it. The sheer number of victims and their willingness to come forward despite whatever stigma they might endure give this case s…

Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…not abridge the rights and benefits that a state must afford to same-sex couples. It remains to be seen how effective this particular case—with its backing from powerful Republican leaders in Texas—will be in gutting the freedom to marry in the Lone Star State. But it does signal the latest, and clearest to-date, sign that marriage equality is far from legally settled. As long as there are right-wing politicians and civilians willing to claim that…

Vandals Deface Easter Billboard in New Zealand

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…, St. Matthew in the City, is again cleaning up after vandals attacked the latest billboard it erected for Easter. The billboard features “a cartoon of a bearded Jesus nailed to the cross with the caption: ‘Well this sucks. I wonder if they’ll remember anything I said. . .’” Vandals were not amused by the church’s cheeky sign and again defaced it—only this time, the vandals didn’t just indulge in mindless destruction. Instead, as church spokesman…

An Open Letter to Kim Davis From a Gay Pastor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ffice to issue marriage licenses to all eligible couples who want one, the latest setback for the Kentucky county clerk who went to jail rather than issue licenses to gay couples. … “Such an approach would not only create piecemeal litigation, it would be inconsistent with basic principles of justice and fairness,” [Judge] Bunning wrote. – Reuters, Sept. 24, 2015 Dear Kim Davis, I am so glad to see that you are finally able to sit down and explain…

Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…ing high in the ratings game these days with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, the latest offering to confirm mainstream media’s deep investment in portraying a one-dimensional and abject South. The old weary stereotypes slide down smoothly, like the creamy underlayer of a hashbrown casserole. It takes too much work to refract the South through a variegated interpretive lens; and besides, would consumers buy into this multifaceted vision anyway? Don’t the…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s a fight about numbers. And balance. And the virtue of justice. What this latest budget battle, and the question of raising the debt ceiling, and the straw polls are revealing, is just how Tertullian a wing of the Republican Party has become. It not only offers absurd arguments with a straight face, but actually insists that belief in the absurdity of the nation’s fundamental fiscal health is a central tenet of the true faith: patriotism. To expr…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…OP due to his strong following in the midwest, it was King’s full-throated promotion of white supremacy and white nationalism as a virtue that finally proved too much even for the GOP. And so, in 2019, Republicans unanimously voted to remove him from his committee assignments (though he wasn’t removed from the “G.O.P. House conference itself, so he [could] still attend its party meetings”). Since then, the GOP has been radicalized even further, an…

Caprica’s Advertising and Teen Religion

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

My competent colleagues have collectively conspired to bring us the latest news from Caprica on an ongoing basis. So I’ll leave the Capricologizing to them. But I wanted to note a couple things surrounding the show that I think fills out some of the interest in its relation to religion: its advertising and the reception of the show as a potentially religious event in itself. The SyFy channel obviously paid a hefty sum to the New York Times and ot…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?, Part Two

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…e Muslims as individuals, but as monolithic… Not only did Harris write his latest book with someone who identifies as a Muslim, he’s actively praised Muslim reformers like Malala Yousafzai, and supported the work of moderate Muslims who want to reform the extremist views within the faith. While we’re glad to hear that some of Sam’s best friends are Muslim, we don’t see how that makes his arguments any more or less bigoted. Our case is that, no mat…

Jeff Flake’s (Mormon-Influenced) Anti-Trump Speeches: Prophetic or Performance?

By Grant Shreve

…ch merely skimmed the surface of his Mormon heritage, the value of Flake’s latest was that it recovered and entered into the public record some of Mormonism’s key epistemological assumptions and set them in relation to the nation’s founding documents. The question remains, however, whether this address is more style than substance. Does it reflect Flake’s genuine commitment to upholding and outing truth, or will it prove wholly performative? As Fl…