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Nobel Laureates Tell Gov. Jindal to Repeal Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…c Freedom” bills, which pave 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. Whether lawmakers will heed a bunch of bona fide experts in their fields remains to be seen, but their statement certainly adds a lot of weight to Kopplin’s argument that LSEA is a “job…

A Nobel Prize for LGBT Civil Rights?

By Jay Michaelson

…, are at real risk. Sexual diversity is not an American issue, or a middle-class one, or a white one. Sexual and gender minorities are at risk everywhere—in fact, especially when they aren’t white, middle-class Americans. Third, and relatedly, LGBT equality is a (I won’t say the) defining civil rights issue of our time. This is not because LGBT people are at more risk than, say, undocumented immigrants, or that our struggle for equality is more co…

“Pro-Life” Has Officially Lost its Meaning

By Patricia Miller

…ctions on abortion that left the procedure available in practice to middle-class and upper-middle-class women, while cutting off access for poorer and younger women for whom logistical and financial hurdles were most salient. But as a new study makes clear, these restrictions do little to actually protect fetal life. A study of prototypical waiting period laws that require a woman to make two visits to an abortion clinic 72 hours apart found that,…

Are Social Issues Non-Issues?

By Jay Michaelson

…y debatable quality, shot through with assumptions about gender, race, and class, but nonetheless the most important factor for those muddle-headed moderates we refer to as undecided. Romney was The Man out there tonight, in all those gendered, racial, and class-bound ways. Inchoate as it was, he did in fact articulate a clear, moral vision: where men like him are in charge, free enterprise reigns, and those who are weak deserve the suffering they…

Response to Nicholas Kristof on Religion and Women

By Mary E. Hunt

…re nuanced understandings of particular women of different racial, ethnic, class, national, age, and sexual backgrounds. I would have preferred to see this twenty-first century approach reflected in Mr. Kristof’s article. This does not change the fundamental insight that Kristof, Jimmy Carter, and the Elders brought together by Nelson Mandela are promoting, namely that the major world religions have been complicit in the oppression of women and gi…

Banning the Burqa Isn’t the Answer

By Rushda Majeed

…al standing. Over the last two centuries, women projected their status and class by shielding themselves behind it. It wasn’t meant as a means to make oneself invisible, but rather to distance oneself from the commoners. Over the decades, such practices were discarded by one class only to be taken up by the less well-to-do, perhaps as an effort to climb the social ladder when sheer wealth or education might not have been enough. Present-day images…

Bad Religion Leaves Big Bruises: When Christians Threaten Health Care Reform

By Peter Laarman

…ies to drop existing coverage of abortion services if they want to stay in business? What kind of narrow obstructionist would make any kind of fuss over telling American women that they will now have to purchase a special rider if they want abortion services included in the private insurance plans they pay for with their own money? As with the Ayn Rand types, my question about misogynist Christians is just how Christian are they, really? I do not…

Supreme Court Conservatives Allow Execution of Muslim Prisoner Despite Religious Freedom Violation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…istian. The conservative bloc on this Supreme Court is dividing our nation along religious lines. If it continues on this path, Christians will be a favored, privileged class; non-Christians will be second-class citizens. Chief Justice John Roberts needs to get his house in order….

The Religion of Self Improvement Grinds On Despite Hard Times for Grads

By Peter Laarman

…equired to hold a job, but it is not enough to deliver a reasonable middle-class income. In a recent Harper’s essay, Jeff Madrick accurately describes “get more education” as a cardinal tenet of mainstream economic orthodoxy, even as he pounds that tenet to smithereens: “Mainstream economists are disturbingly wedded to an ideology that fails to take into account the fact that labor markets can fail or that workers can be abused.” Madrick is especi…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…way from the television or computer or whatever. The rise of Muslim middle classes means very different people have trouble finding the same, frequently Samsung remotes despite allegedly impassable civilizational boundaries. With the rise of a global Muslim middle class, all kinds of people from Morocco to Indonesia will have the same problems we do: Where’s the remote, and why can’t I get myself up to get it? Take that, Samuel Huntington. Sit bac…