Showing posts with label Ross Douthat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ross Douthat. Show all posts
Sunday, August 5, 2018

James Alison on Homosexuality Among the Clergy, the Anatrella and McCarrick Stories, and the Trap of Clerical Dishonesty

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Someone else who understands and has recently commented on the significance of the Anatrella (and McCarrick) story for those trying t...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Ross Douthat on Coronation of Donald Trump — "Disgraced Themselves on a Level Unique in the History of Our Republic"

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Conservative right-wing Catholic journalist Ross Douthat tweets as the Republican party chooses Donald Trump as its 2016 presidential c...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Did Gay Marriage Cause Ashley Madison? Taking the Arguments of Folks Like Ross Douthat to Their Logical Conclusion

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Did gay marriage cause Ashley Madison? Has permitting same-sex couples to marry caused millions of heterosexual folks to cheat on the...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Mark Silk Responds to Ross Douthat on Polygamy and Same-Sex Marriage: What Were You Saying Again About Religious Freedom, Mr. Douthat?

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Mark Silk responds to Ross Douthat on same-sex marriage and polygamy ( see my earlier posting about this) at Mark's "Spirit...

A Catholic Nation Resoundingly Supports Equal Rights for LGBT People, and the U.S. Catholic Right and Its Centrist Enablers Want to Talk About . . . Polygamy?

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Steve and I had dinner yesterday with some friends of ours who have long been powerful and effective activists for civil rights. They...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Patricia Miller on Ross Douthat and Synod on Family: Catholic Doctrine Has Evolved

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At Religion Dispatches, Patricia Miller has an interesting take on Ross Douthat's recent temper tantrum regarding the synod on ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Conservative Response to Ross Douthat on Impending Catholic Schism if Church Welcomes Gays: Damon Linker and Andrew Sullivan

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Two conservative thinkers respond to Ross Douthat about the schism he sees looming in the Catholic church if Pope Francis continues,...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Ross Douthat on the Pope's Betrayal of Catholics Who Count: A "Small Minority" Have "Kept the Faith"

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My family once belonged to a country club. I hated every moment we spent in that club, because its "old" members made it ve...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Andrew Sullivan, Et Al., on Testosterone, Tradition, and Natural Law in the Construction of Masculinity: A Rejoinder

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Andrew Sullivan says that he (along with Ross Douthat) is "kinda tired of" arguments like Fredrik DeBoer's recent asse...
Friday, June 6, 2014

End-of-Week News Roundup: Venus, Mars, Ongoing Discussion of Misogyny and Gender Roles in American Culture

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More links — these, to recent articles and commentary continuing the discussion of misogyny in the U.S (and other cultures) in the wak...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Arranging the Terms of Our Surrender and Admitting What We Don't Know About the Homosexuals: Us, Them, and the Gospel Message

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Three short takes from articles published online in the past several days:
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Ross Douthat: What Are Conservative Catholics to Do with Francis?

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To be honest, I don't really read Ross Douthat. I can't take the man seriously. 
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mark Silk to Ross Douthat: What about the "Nones" and the Growth of Non-Denominational Churches?

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At his Spiritual Politics blog, Mark Silk engages Ross Douthat's argument that liberal churches are withering on the vine--and h...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Ross Douthat's Catholics Win, Episcopalians Lose Meme: Let Us Make-Believe Together

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The Episcopal Church USA holds its triennial convention, at which it approves the use of rituals to bless same-sex unions, and within ...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Mark Regnerus's New Study of "Gay" Parenting and Ross Douthat on Gay Marriage and Severing Marriage from Procreation

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As he comments on Mark Regnerus's badly conceived and badly executed recent study of "gay" parenting, which isn't act...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Ross Douthat's Response to Marriage Equality in New York: Let's Find New Ways to Blame the Gays

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I've said before on this blog that I don't usually pay much attention to what Ross Douthat writes.  I read Douthat the same way I ...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Ross Douthat on Monogamy: Moving the Goalposts as Marriage Equality Advances

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When I first read Ross Douthat's recent op-ed piece in the New York Times about why monogamy matters, I briefly entertained the idea ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Syreeta McFadden on Ross Douthat's Approach to Mosque Controversy: Sinister Subtext Appealing to "Seeming" Reason

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A must-read piece today: Syreeta McFadden at Religion Dispatches on Ross Douthat's recent ground-zero mosque column .  Joan Walsh mast...
Friday, March 13, 2009

American Catholic Centrists and the Closed Center: The Case of Ross Douthat

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The American Catholic centrist blogs are hailing the appointment of Ross Douthat as Bill Kristol's replacement as the New York Times ...