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Religion & Media Current Events
Russian gay extremists; Patronizing employers; A Brownback woman; Jesus’ juice; Milquetoast Patel; Other, the world’s 12th religion; Liberty wolves; ideology-smashing samaritan; Damn anarchists; Government by any other name (like the presidency); Tolerance ponies. Continue Reading →
The Southern Party: I’m betting Santorum takes Alabama and Mississippi tonight. In the meanwhile, read Alec MacGillis at The New Republic:
If this year’s GOP presidential candidates have all year been making such a conservative pitch in order to appeal to a party shaped by the South, why have they been having such a hard time connecting with voters in the most Southern states of all?
Mary Valle: Fr. Marcel Guarnizo, the priest who denied Barbara Johnson (also known as the “lesbian Barbara Johnson”) communion at her mother’s funeral, has been put on administrative leave for having “engaged in intimidating behavior toward parish staff and others that is incompatible with proper priestly ministry.”
Join us at the NYU Bookstore on Wednesday, March 21, for another event in our Revealer Reading Series:
March, 21 2012 | 5:00 – 6:30pm
726 Broadway, New York
THE REVEALER READING SERIES
Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (2011, Oxford)
REBECCA ALPERT (Temple University) will read from her new book which explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays–the only Jewish team in the history of black baseball–made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues.
Respondent: JUDITH WEISENFELD (Princeton University).
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My chum Kiera Feldman has a piece up at New York Magazine on Ken Starr’s latest politically motivated sex scandal witch hunt, this time at Baylor University where he’s president, “Ken Starr Redux: Lefty Icon Targeted Over Alleged Sexual Misconduct.” Read it here.
What does informed consent mean to a “pro-life” governor? Continue Reading →
Ashley Baxstrom: The Swiss upper house on Monday buried a motion to ban the burqa, which had passed the lower house in September of 2011 by a margin of 101 to 77.
The proposal, dubbed “Down with masks,” could have eventually banned full-face veils including the Muslim burqa from public transportation or government buildings. Proposed by SVP (Swiss People’s Party) representative Oskar Freysinger – of the same party that lead a 2009 campaign to prevent the construction of new minarets – the ban followed similar movements in France, the Netherlands and Belgium, countries which have banned veils or are considering such measures.
Freysinger has said in his proposal that the ban would improve public security, but a statement on the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland’s website argued that such a ban was discrimination against a religious group. Furthermore, they argued, it would have a negative affect on the Swiss tourist industry by preventing women from the Gulf from taking the train; Lake Geneva is a popular destination for wealth. Continue Reading →
On February 22, 2011, Jeffrey White, a Federal judge in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, ruled the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to be unconstitutional when he found that Karen Golinski, an attorney and employee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, had her rights violated under the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution when she was denied spousal benefits that heterosexual employees receive. The full opinion can be found at Think Progress. Continue Reading →
This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team to have their state semifinals game moved to any night other than Friday night.
Bishop William E. Lori gave the editors of America magazine a lashing today for their criticism of the USCCB’s contraception conniption. Lori, it would seem, still thinks that religious liberty is reserved for his institution alone.
In an article at Washington Post‘s “On Faith,” David Kuo and Patton Dodd wrote this: “The subject of evil is disallowed in our public imagination today.” It’s an absurd statement, one that any foreclosed home owner, imprisoned black kid, unemployed white mom, or me, a single white woman living next to the projects in Brooklyn, can laugh at. They were defending Santorum’s devil talk (not Santorum, they’re moderates after all) and castigating the media for not recognizing that a whole lot of people believe in the devil. Geesh. What they clearly don’t get is that most Americans only really care what Santorum specifically believes because they know he intends to legislate it. On them. Regardless of what they believe.
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This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team to have their state semifinals game moved to any night other than Friday night.
Bishop William E. Lori gave the editors of America magazine a lashing today for their criticism of the USCCB’s contraception conniption. Lori, it would seem, still thinks that religious liberty is reserved for his institution alone.
In an article at Washington Post‘s “On Faith,” David Kuo and Patton Dodd wrote this: “The subject of evil is disallowed in our public imagination today.” It’s an absurd statement, one that any foreclosed home owner, imprisoned black kid, unemployed white mom, or me, a single white woman living next to the projects in Brooklyn, can laugh at. They were defending Santorum’s devil talk (not Santorum, they’re moderates after all) and castigating the media for not recognizing that a whole lot of people believe in the devil. Geesh. What they clearly don’t get is that most Americans only really care what Santorum specifically believes because they know he intends to legislate it. On them. Regardless of what they believe.
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PREVIEW SCREENING
WRITING IN WATER 水书
A film on the social life of calligraphy” 书法的集体生活
(42 min., Angela Zito 司徒安director)
Tuesday, March 6, 6:00PM
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Department of Cinema Studies
721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Michelson Theater
Free and open to the public.
Seating is limited and is available first-come, first-seated.
* * * * * Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. * * * * * Continue Reading →