Vatican Sexual Abuse and the High Priests of Hollywood?
As a defensive Vatican attempts to reclassify the pedophiles it has never ceased protecting, the centrist former editor of America magazine makes a flawed Polanski analogy.
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Roman Polanski, Gays, and the Bible
When the director Roman Polanski sexual assaulted a 13-year-old, was it only US law he violated?
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Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit
Judging by this past weekend’s marquee event on the conservative calendar, the center of gravity is moving from religious right to Tea Partiers, from homosexuality to taxes. A closer look, however, reveals the growing symbiosis between the two.
Read MoreGays Losing Value to “Value Voters”?
This weekend’s premier religious right gathering saw same-sex marriage score low in a poll. Has something significant happened?
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Jennifer’s Body and Why I Like Buffy’s Body Better
Has a hotly anticipated new horror film about a murderous cheerleader subverted the mythos of woman as the source of evil or just the opposite?
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Animal Sacrifice and Sexuality in Santería
In the wake of a religious freedom victory, scholar Salvador Vidal-Ortiz discusses the concepts of “newborns,” “wives,” and the role of gays and lesbians in Santería.
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Jewish “Women of the Wall” Defy Law to Pray
A powerful documentary, “Praying in Her Own Voice,” chronicles twenty years of struggle for religious equality at one of Judaism’s most sacred sites and asks: How can there be unity when half the population is silenced?
Read MoreWho on Religious Left is “Worth the Ink”?
US News and World Report’s Dan Gilgoff implies that only those with access to the White House are worth writing about.
Read MoreExploiting Health Care Debate to Restrict Abortion?
Over at Salon.com, Frances Kissling has fighting words for self-proclaimed “religious progressives” who are pressing to bypass compromises and including even greater restrictions on abortion.
Read MoreDeifying Matthew Shepard
We want our heroes, blameless, pure…even sexless. But even Jesus was human.
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