Bible

Those who cling to a harrowing scrap of an otherwise marginal biblical text want the rest of us to believe that it amounts to persecution to ask them to unclench their fists so that all of us can live together in peace.

The Vatican is focusing a lot recently on Paul’s teaching on celibacy. But there are other ways of interpreting Paul, and not all of them are sex-negative.

While the decision for any individual to abort or not is a delicate and fraught one, the desire for state control women’s bodies comes down to good old fashioned misogyny.

Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.