Showing posts with label culture wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture wars. Show all posts
Saturday, January 27, 2018

It's Never About Racism: White Catholic Voters, Abortion, and How the Religious Right Culture Wars Began (Hint: It's About Racism)

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In 1958, Jerry Falwell wrote the following: “When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line,” and s...
Monday, January 8, 2018

Charles Pierce on How "It's Not about Race Because Nothing Ever Is about Race."

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Charles Pierce today at his "Politics" blog at Esquire , commenting on the "gerrymandered mess" the Republican-c...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Hot Takes on Moore Defeat: White Evangelicals Did It! It's All About Abortion! (And Why Masterpiece Cake Will Likely Prevail)

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Some takes on the Alabama election I should have anticipated, but did not: 1. Though 80 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama  cas...
Monday, November 13, 2017

The Bridge-Building Project in the U.S. Catholic Church and Reaching Out to the Poor Bishops as A Primary Task: My Take

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It's very hard to get my mind around Catholic groups, including ones working for the full inclusion of queer people in the Cathol...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

A Twitter Thread in Response to Franklin Foer on What's Wrong with the Democrats

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No mention at all of the significant role played by gerrymandering and voter suppression to lock in GOP control, as a minority. 1) https:/...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Claim That the Culture Wars are Over and Religious Right Is Obsolescent Links to Claim That Political Left and Identity Politics Are Responsible for Trump: My Take

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One thing I suppose many of us can agree on about the current U.S. presidential election cycle is that it has been full of surprise...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The Little Sisters of the Poor, Kim Davis, and the Challenge of Preserving Real Religious Freedom: Frederick Clarkson's Important New Essay "When Exemption Is the Rule"

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As Frederick Clarkson points out in a just-published (and exhaustive and richly-resourced) must-read overview of the religious libert...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Rachel Held Evans on Faux Persecution Complex of Conservative Christians, and Betraying the Gospel

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Rachel Held Evans argues that when the Christian brand becomes assertion of the "right to refuse" service rather than serv...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

"I Am for Peace; But When I Speak, They Are for War": A Consideration of the Christian (and Catholic) Reponse to Obergefell

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I've been thinking about war and peace lately, not primarily because, in response to the possibility of a peace-seeking agreement...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Trend in American Christianity to Keep Our Eyes on Now: Talking About Exile

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A trend in American Christianity to keep our eyes on now: as Christians of a certain stripe recognize that they may well lose the h...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church?: Implications for U.S. Catholic Bishops in Their Recent Meeting

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Another reminder of what makes the church the church from Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Richard Kim on Why Gays Can't "Accept a Polite Culture War Truce by Letting 'the Dissenters Opt Out'"

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At  The Nation , Richard Kim asks , "So why can’t gays accept a polite culture war truce by letting 'the dissenters opt ou...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Why Do the U.S. Bishops Sound So Unlike Pope Francis? Vinnie Rotondaro Provides Answers

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Vinnie Rotondaro I also want to recommend today Vinnie Rotondaro's examination of why Pope Francis's message of merciful c...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Frank Cocozzelli on Cardinal Timothy Dolan as "Neocon Cheerleader"

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As a complement to what I posted earlier today about the statement of the German Catholic bishops re: the morning-after pill and ra...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Two Pictures, Two Thousand Words: Congressional Hearing on Religious Liberty

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As Pema Levy notes at Talking Points Memo today, the picture at the head of the posting is from yesterday's Congressional hearing...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Culture War Issues Back Big-Time as 2012 Elections Approach

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In the news today: they're baaaack.  The culture wars are back in a big way as the Republican party seeks to anoint a presidentia...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Kristin Rawls on American Religious Right and Africa's Anti-Gay Bills

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As Kristin Rawls notes at Alternet today , the same folks working overtime now to reignite the culture wars in the U.S. in the 2012 e...

Alex Pareene and Sarah Jaffe on Why Republicans (and U.S. Catholic Bishops) Reignited Culture Wars

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Alex Pareene at Salon this morning, on the Santorum bump as the political and religious right try to reignite the never-ending cultu...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Tom Reese on Dolan-Kurtz Election as Culture-War Battle Cry

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And here's Fr. Thomas Reese of Georgetown on the election of Dolan-Kurtz to head the USCCB: This is a signal that the conference wan...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Diana Butler Bass on Continued Attempt of U.S. Religious Right to Use African Christians in American Culture Wars

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Huffington Post recently carried a fine article by Diana Butler Bass, author of A People's History of Christianity (NY: Harper, 20...