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NY Times has more detail on Tiller and his murder
The New York Times today published a lengthy and detailed story about Dr. (…)
Obama = Antichrist? Sutton responds.
The other day I posted a critique of Matthew Avery Sutton’s claim that “the vast majority of American evangelicals” are radical fundamentalists who are soon going to conclude that President Obama is the Antichrist. My critique came in the form of a question: Where’s the evidence? Although it’s fun and easy to pick on evangelicals, at least in some quarters, an argument of this kind should feature at least a few facts if it’s to be taken seriously. (…)
“A leaderless army”
The Seattle Times suggests the religious right has gone from 60 to zero in five years:
In 2004, conservative evangelical leaders in Washington state were in full political force. (…)
Obama’s fruitless evangelical outreach?
Over at Religion Dispatches, Matthew Avery Sutton argues that President Obama’s entreaties to evangelicals will inevitably fall flat because the conservative Christian movement is “obsessed with the apocalypse” and bound to think Obama is the Antichrist. (…)
Strange bedfellows
Liberal attorney David Boies and conservative attorney Ted Olson have joined forces to file a lawsuit opposing California’s ban on gay marriage. This unlikely tag team — featuring a pair of strange bedfellows indeed — is intended to illustrate a point: that the marriage issue does not conform to the familiar poles of liberalism and conservativism. Boies claims as much today in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, contending what we have here is an issue of love, not politics. (…)
C Street: sinister or benign?
Is C Street a nefarious, shadowy group of power-hungry religious zealots? Or just a Bible study and support group? (…)
The death of the culture wars?
The guy who correctly predicted the emergence of a solid Democratic majority by 2010 is now suggesting that the culture wars are drawing to a close. (…)
“Jane Roe” arrested outside Sotomayor hearing
Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. “Jane Roe” of the original Roe v. (…)
The Wright religion
Over at AlterNet, Terrence McNally interviews Robert Wright about the latter’s new book, The Evolution of God. The pertinent issue here is the interview explores the factors that make religion a force for good or for ill. Wright was raised Southern Baptist but strayed from the faith and is now a spiritually-oriented agnostic. (…)
Science-Based Bellyaching
Barack Obama’s recent appointment of Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health should be uncontroversial. After all, Collins led the Human Genome Project, and he did it ahead of schedule and under budget. His own landmark scientific research led to the discovery of genes for cystic fibrosis and Huntington’s disease, among others. He is by all accounts a likable guy. The trifecta he offers — a great administrator, a great scientist, a great personality — is darn near unheard of. (…)