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The Mistaken Assumption Behind Employers’ “Right” to Not Cover Contraception

By Mary Barker

…an, we’d understand a Quaker grandmother’s reluctance to help her grandson buy an assault rifle, regardless of how much he pleaded or how big the occasion (birthday, graduation, etc.). It makes sense because we all agree that the money doesn’t “belong” to the grandson. For Locke, however, God gave the world to us in common, and we appropriate a part of it to ourselves for private use through our labor. (We sowed the fields; the harvest belongs t…

Huntsman, the End-of-Empire Conservative

By Sarah Posner

…didates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. What’s more, he seems not to buy the conservative, Gingrich-esque view of American exceptionalism, describing his hawkish critics to Dougherty this way: They clearly haven’t felt our diminished leverage in the international marketplace because of our weak core here at home. They clearly haven’t read the history about the end of empires where you have a diminution in values, you have a society that beco…

Rites, Rituals, and the King

By Amina Wadud

…er to don a new, purified version of the self. But then, one really has to buy into the whole ritual thing for that to happen. One of the distinguishing characteristics of humankind is evidence tracing back through the years, that we have always oriented ourselves towards something Sacred, Ultimate, or wholly (holy?) Other. In burial sites, from the wealthy Pharaohs to the poor desert nomad, this evidence is manifest in the form of elaborate relic…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…ars ago. Maybe Congress could have acted then to make it more difficult to buy a weapon that can easily kill so many people. But they didn’t. And now five more people are dead and twenty-five more injured. The system is working perfectly. And late 2022 is bearing the fruits of a violent summer and fall. Did you know that twice as many transgender people were murdered in 2021 than in 2019? Here’s another fact: Did you know that, contrary to right-w…

It’s Time To Ordain Women—Again

By Elizabeth Drescher

…that Paulist Press, your publisher, provided an opportunity for readers to buy copies for the US Catholic bishops. Do you expect that they’ll read the book? Phyllis Zagano (PZ): I think they will. My own bishop asked for a copy, as did two US cardinals. There is a huge groundswell of support on this issue. For example, the Cleveland-based group FutureChurch has been running a postcard campaign for a year or so, and through FutureChurch thousands o…

Marriage Equality in WA Already Under Attack

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…one is ﬁghting for their right to never worry about ﬁnding enough money to buy a gift for a same-sex wedding. That vast money machine must work quickly, however, or there will be a lot of June marriages in the State of Washington. For the moment though, marriage equality supporters are glowing over the news that their state joins six others, and Washington, D.C. in recognizing same-sex couples. “No matter what the future holds, nothing will take t…

Joyce Meyer Joins Condemnation of Uganda Anti-Gay Bill

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y and lesbian friends who absolutely love televangelist Joyce Meyers. They buy her books, watch her television show, and go to see her live and in person when they get a chance. I was even invited to go by one lesbian friend, but I declined. I have no use for Meyer’s gospel of happy talk and prosperity. It all sounds good until a real crisis hits, then God as Santa Claus seems to lose a bit of his promised luster. I also have no use for Meyer’s an…

Let Michael Vick Play! The Ethics of Reinstatement

By Jonathan L. Walton

…t expect others to bear. To deny an ex-convict the right to earn a living and integrate back into society discredits our entire system of justice in America. Must a professional team sign Vick? No. Do fans have to attend games, cheer for him and buy his apparel? Of course not. But should he be allowed to try to earn a living at the sport that he was once considered among the best in the league? Absolutely! Besides, I am confident there are plenty…

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

By Ruth Rosen

…n financial goals when I saw, in the organization’s magazine, that I could buy a “stunning new logo pin” in either sterling silver or 24-carat gold for $75. In the end, I decided that Feminists for Life is neither about feminism nor about choice. It is a cunning attempt to convince young women that choice means giving up the right to “choose.” Sarah Pahlin is the inexperienced woman Sen. John McCain has chosen as his running mate, hoping that she…

ISIS is the Islamic “Reformation”

By Ed Simon

…dieval army for the simple reason that it is not the middle ages. It is to buy into that old “war of civilizations” idea that eliminates complex historical contingencies in favor of a narrative every bit as mythic as what the Islamic State believes about itself. Indeed it is a formidable and evil army, but it is a modern army. The Islamic State, as Haroon Moghul notes in Salon, was born out of the catastrophic US invasion of Iraq. From the debris…