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Old Politics, New Bedfellows: The Olson/Boies Challenge to Prop. 8

By Jesse Lava

…of religion.” Or, heck, that financial policy should be based on real-life numbers rather than the numbers that banks would like to pretend are real. We are at a point where it’s no longer clear that a large, vibrant conservative movement exists outside of policy areas that are supposed transcend conventional political divides. The constellation of interests that now define conservatism include being anti-science, anti-privacy, anti-Constitution,…

Op-Ed: McCain’s VP, Sarah Palin, and ‘Feminists for Life’

By Ruth Rosen

…uldn’t agree more. Young women, she says, should have the right to bear a child and have access to high-quality, affordable child care. Again, I heartily agreed. But Foster is cleverly disingenuous. When I asked what she does to promote child care, her answers were vague and evasive. When I read the organization’s brochures aimed at campus physicians and psychologists, I found nothing about campaigning for child care. The real goal is to convince…

Mega-Church and State Separation? Not in an Election Year

By Daniel Schultz

…political activities hurt religion by driving away dissenting adherents. While this seems to explain why the US has become less religious overall, it is not clear that involvement in politics actually drives politically active churches’ own members away. Politics may hurt religion as a whole, but it does not necessarily hurt the political churches themselves. Sounds about right to me. One of the first things you hear when you talk about church wi…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…eve it or not, though, there are very sound critical arguments for saying this, which I lay out in the book. But even without these scholarly gymnastics, one can see that the creed was not originally about cultural obliteration. “There is no Jew or Greek” stands alongside “no slave or free” and “no male and female.” These are not distinctions of religion and culture, but of power and privilege. In the world of Greek and Roman antiquity, free men h…

Conservative and Liberal Voices Combine to Condemn Anti-Gay Ugandan Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ther conservative signers include Sam Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Council. Rodriguez also signed the Manhattan Declaration and was a supporter of California’s Proposition 8 to overturn marriage equality in that state, and has been called the “Karl Rove of Hispanic evangelical strategy.” Another notable signer is Mercer University professor and author David Gushee, who has refused to sign the Manhattan Declara…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…path in lower Manhattan, killing eight; the driver, as he abandoned the vehicle, left behind a note in Arabic that read, “ISIS lives!” Whether or not ISIS lives is a debatable point. The fact that various groups and individuals around the world have identified with the ISIS brand and its extremist ideology doesn’t mean that there’s an organizational connection between the old ISIS infrastructure and these various individuals and entities. When I…

Let The Sun Shine In: Marriage Equality Comes to Broadway

By Paul Gorrell

…cholar on his own front porch and the banning of children of color from a Philadelphia pool.) But the landscape of race relations has taken on many new contours since Hair first hit Broadway in the 1960s. The human rights struggle at the heart of this new production? Marriage equality. Gavin Creel, who plays Claude in the current production, is openly gay and serves as a co-chair of Broadway Impact, a group fighting for marriage equality. In a rec…

Catholic Bishops Want a Place at the Table of Hate

By Kate Childs Graham

…of Catholics voted ‘yes’ on Proposition 8 and Catholics make up nearly a third of California voters. However, something similar to the Bradley effect may have occurred as just before the election only 48% of Catholics supported the measure. And now, after the Bishops’ meeting in Baltimore this week, it looks like the bishops—with the help of the Knights of Columbus—are going to try to take the ‘Prop 8 show’ on the road. They have made two out of…

Secret Treasure, Bible’s Real Housewives, & ‘Dear Lord, please don’t let me f-up’

By Michael J. Altman

…ut the BBC’s three-part documentary The Life of Muhammad slated for later this month. Chinese officials are conflicted over how to deal with the rise of Christianity in China. Investigators found billions of dollars worth of treasure in the vaults beneath a southern Indian temple. The Vatican is opening up its Secret Archives to reveal 100 previously unseen documents to the public. The documents cover the period of Pope Pius XII’s World War II pap…

Rising to Heaven in a Secular Rapture: Trump’s Golden Promises

By Eric C. Miller

…of people, could win the devotion of deeply religious people. The guy’s on his third marriage, was propositioning women while his third wife was pregnant, he can’t name a favorite verse or book of the Bible, says he’s never asked God for forgiveness. There are many reasons why, you would think, especially evangelical believers would turn away from him as a candidate. But I think religious belief opens a way for a charismatic leader like Donald Tru…