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Fetal Attraction

by WS Editors | Apr 1, 2012 | Legal Affairs, Politics

Santorum’s position on contraception conforms with a doctrine that most Catholics ignore: that sexual union must serve the purposes of procreation. “It [contraception] is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be,” Santorum said. “They are supposed to be within […]

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Even at Home, Freedom Isn’t Free

by Osha Gray Davidson | Mar 15, 2012 | Foreign Policy, Legal Affairs

to the collateral constitutional damage of the War on Terror. But the author, former New York Times correspondent David K. Shipler, is in pursuit of a much larger and more troubling development. Shipler exposes the frayed edges of our “constitutional culture.” Most citizens don’t know much about our liberties, he argues persuasively, and so don’t guard them from […]

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The Real Romney: Faith in His Bones, Politics in His Heart

by WS Editors | Mar 15, 2012 | Politics

“Mitt Romney takes his religion seriously, and he won’t let us know that,” a Mormon scholar told me. “He goes quiet, or dark, on the issue of religion.” Romney not only avoids discussing Mormonism, he rarely discusses his personal history with the church. Most Mormon men end their official connection to the church when they […]

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Saints and Sinners

by WS Editors | Mar 15, 2012 | Culture, Politics

In Hawaii in 1996, leaders of the Mormon church petitioned the court to intervene in a lawsuit filed by three gay couples who claimed that their constitutional rights were violated when the state denied them marriage licenses. In Alaska in 1988, the church contributed $500,000 to a campaign to define marriage as a union between […]

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Extremely Loud, Incredibly White, and Targeting the Occupy Movement

by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2012 | Economy, Politics

First, an attempt to define the odd bubble in which CPAC exists. I am sitting in the press gallery listening to Iowa Congressman Steve King tell a crowd of 3,500 that he orders his interns to replace the energy-efficient light bulbs in his Capitol office with “black-market Edison light bulbs.” “The janitors, Nancy’s [Pelosi] Stasi […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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