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The Rhetoric of Death from the Pro-Life Movement
By
Paul Raushenbush
“Obama is a murderer!!!” shouted the all male anti-abortion activists as they disrupted both the worship service and the faith panels at the DNC in Denver. “Obama kills babies!” they yelled as they were escorted from the room, one after another. This is a common framing of the abortion question by the pro-life movement. Abortion…
Sexual Orientation and the Pursuit of Happiness
By
Marianne Williamson
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…. These values are enshrined in our Declaration of Independence as inalienable rights of every American. Generation after generation, people have fought to get rid of the “….except for”s: except for blacks, except for women, etc. Today, we challenge the latest prejudice to raise its ugly head and seek…
Judge Sotomayer: Racist or Representative?
By
Paul Raushenbush
Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh are calling Judge Sotomayer and President Obama racists – and Democrats must be loving it. Newt and Rush pulled out a quote from a speech given by Judge Sotomayer at a symposium called: Raising the Bar: Latino and Latina Presence in the Judiciary and the Struggle for Representation in which the Supreme Court…
Jon, Kate, and the Breakdown of the Evangelical Family
By
Diana Butler Bass
My young daughter is a dedicated fan of the TLC program Jon and Kate Plus Eight, a reality show of a wholesome family with a set of twins and a set of sextuplets. Over the weekend, TLC ran a marathon of four seasons of the show leading up to the beginning of its fifth season…
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