Daily Links 27 January 2005

January 27, 2005
Guantanamo Thong Song The Bush administration recommends sexual abstinence for singles — unless, of course, you’re a Guantanamo prisoner....

One DOMA Challenge Left

January 27, 2005
After a judge dismissed lawsuits brought by three gay couples in Florida, and the couples decided not to risk...

Auschwitz Anniversary

January 27, 2005
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the main center of the Nazi’s “Final Solution,” with...

You Forgot Context

January 27, 2005
Though she’s been called “French” for it, Peggy Noonan doesn’t regret her critique of Bush’s “God-drenched” address, and adds...

Blessed Be the Fruit

January 27, 2005
Christian conservative Allan Carlson, president of a think tank called the Howard Center, proposes lower insurance rates for married...

Daily Links 26 January 2005

January 26, 2005
They Will Be Your Doctors When You’re Old Kansas’ State Board of Education is holding a public hearing this...

He's So Unusual

January 26, 2005
Constitutional “originalist” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (of “secularism led to the Holocaust” fame) yesterday scolded his fellow...

Satirist Fined Over Pope's Honor

January 26, 2005
A Warsaw court has fined Jerzy Urban, editor of the Polish newspaper Nie (No), $6,500 for writing a satirical...

Russia Remembers Auschwitz

January 26, 2005
“‘Today is a test,'” said Russia’s chief rabbi Berl Lazar. “‘People are trying to test how society will react...

Daily Links 25 January 2005

January 25, 2005
God’s Convenient Politics Lucky for Democrats, Jim Wallis is able to explain God’s politics, which are a curiously good...
Review

Generation Squared

January 25, 2005
25 January 2005 God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America By Naomi...

God's Convenient Politics

January 25, 2005
Lucky for Democrats, Jim Wallis is able to explain God’s politics, which are a curiously good fit to the...

The A-Team

January 25, 2005
What kind of name for a band of supervillians, or even heroes, is “The Arlington Group“? More dowdy than...

UCC Evangelizes SpongeBob

January 25, 2005
Jesus wouldn’t turn away SpongeBob Squarepants, and neither does the UCC. Rev. John H. Thomas, general minister and president...

Survival of the Fittest

January 25, 2005
How come capitalist Americans, with their love of social Darwinism, and faith in “‘survival of the fittest’ free-market ideology,”...

Alberta What's On Your Mind?

January 24, 2005
In Alberta, one of five provinces left in Canada that has not legalized same-sex marriage, 500 protesters gathered outside...

Daily Links 24 January 2005

January 24, 2005
Don’t Play with Sri Lanka Evangelical relief workers have reached Sri Lanka, which has been a hotbed of religious...

Don't Play with Sri Lanka

January 24, 2005
Evangelical relief workers have reached Sri Lanka, which has been a hotbed of religious contention since long before the...

Holocaust Denial in Slovakia

January 24, 2005
Religion and Society points to an AP report on a proposal from Slovakia’s Justice Ministry to decriminalize Holocaust denial...

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