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Steven Waldman

One of you asked what I was getting at with the thought experiment pitting 500 zygotes against one baby. (If you were in a burning medical building, which would you save?) I’ve argued that some pro-choice leaders are slightly out of synch with some pro-choice voters. While all pro-choices want the decision to be made…

Slate’s very wise “Human Nature” columnist, Will Saletan, gave me the honor of thoroughly critiquing my “Safe, Legal and Early” essay. He suggests that my proposal by itself is politically impractical because it’s too complicated and because, “people won’t take the more-but-earlier-abortions deal. Yes, they prefer earlier abortions to later ones, as Waldman’s poll data…

At the end of my post yesterday about the National Day of Prayer, I included a clip from the festivities last year (?) in Tacoma, Washington (see above). I said it was,”lovely, warm and very evangelical.”Rob the Rev commented: “Steve, you’re kidding right, about that video clip?! What a bunch of nationalistic, fundagelical pietistic, self-rightious…

Conservative religious groups are criticizing President Obama for what the Associated Press called his “muted” observance of National Prayer Day. “At this time in our country’s history, we would hope our President would recognize more fully the importance of prayer,” said Shirley Dobson, chairwoman of National Day of Prayer Task Force, which organizes the prayer…

I’m not going to harp on the obvious irony of Bristol Palin leading a campaign against teen pregnancy. Nor am I going to wonder how Tripp Palin will feel when he grows up and watches the videos of mom talking about how she wished she hadn’t gotten pregnant right then. What I’d like to focus…

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, 2009 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Throughout our Nation’s history, Americans have come together in moments of great challenge and uncertainty to humble themselves in prayer. In 1775, as the Continental Congress began the task of forging a new Nation, colonists were asked to observe…

“One of the fundamental things for me would be honesty, transparency,” he said, unironically, in this Preachers and Teachers video. (Father Cutie is the Catholic Priest-turned-TV-star who recently caught smooching with a lady on the beach)

Danny and Bertie ask for prayers: “Our families are spent. We have applied for dozens of jobs. We will be on the street soon if nothing happens. We have a small child,.”

Patricia Carl and Son: “This is a cry for help by a single parent who has done all she can to keep her head above water and keep a roof over me and my sons head. I lost my job in december and I recently obtained a part time job still not enough to pay…

In an interview in Christianity Today by Sarah Pulliam, Samuel Wurzelbacher says he likes James Dobson, John Eldridge, and Sarah Palin — and criticizes the Republican Party for not standing up for evangelicals enough. “They use God as a punch line,” said the man who became famous as Joe the Plumber. As for homosexuality, he…
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