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Is it wrong to bury the Catholic Richard III in a Protestant church? Maybe not.
Archive for the ‘Religion and Politics’ Category
February 2nd, 2013
Category: Health Care, Religion and Politics
Yes, contraception costs insurers money. Not providing it costs them more.
January 19th, 2013
Category: Religion and Politics, Wayward press
I don’t think Emerson was much concerned about his “brand.”
January 17th, 2013
Category: Diplomacy, Religion and Politics
Some jobs are challenging, and some are so hard it’s a wonder anyone can be found to take them on. Ambassador from Pakistan to anywhere, for example. At the moment, the US slot is held by Sherry Rehman, and representing her country in a positive way to anyone not clinically insane has just become even [...]
January 10th, 2013
In 2007 the Italo-Canadian artist Cosimo Cavallaro secured free publicity with the condemnation by idiot American Catholic reactionaries of his harmless chocolate Jesus. Here in Spain, you can have an entire chocolate Nativity scene, as a normal expression of commercially-tinged religious sentimentality. In fact a whole 1,450 kilo sugar Nativity Granada, in a chocolate factory [...]
December 25th, 2012
Grove Patterson, a once well-known newspaper man, writes about faith.
November 25th, 2012
Category: Religion and Politics, Watching Conservatives
As Speaker of the Florida House, Marco Rubio tried to protect parents from having their children taught science in science class if that teaching might conflict with what the kids were hearing at home or in church. So the “How old is the Earth” question was no random “gotcha.”
November 19th, 2012
Category: Religion and Politics, Watching Conservatives
Marco Rubio is scared of annoying the young-earth creationists. Feh!
November 15th, 2012
At least so far. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has been making a lot of loud noises lately, theoretically criticizing GOP plutocracy. A few days ago, he supposedly advanced a new conservative concern for the not-1% percent: “We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, [...]
November 5th, 2012
Category: Religion and Politics
Democrats laid off the “Mormon issue.” Good for us!