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The Institute on Religion and Democracy tells us that the ideal of romantic love is weakening the bond of marriage. Perhaps they’d like a return to the whole “women as property” thing? Or is it that marriage is solely for procreation?

A new book by veteran organizer Marshall Ganz tells the sometimes triumphant, sometimes cautionary tale of the rise and fall of Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement. While the story of the movement’s successes is well known, the reasons for its decline are more mysterious—until now.

What holds “us” together anyway? The only way to find out is to continue the conversation — barbaric yawp is always preferable to cold silence.

Opponents of health care reform have raised the specter of Terri Schiavo to mobilize “pro-life” activists and the elderly, but what they forget is that this case was a powerful instance of an unpopular government intervention in a family matter. They can’t have it both ways.

The movement that promised to make men into warriors for Christ is back, with a huge rally in Colorado. But this time it’s all about including women, and preparing in good Christian Zionist fashion, for the conversion of the Jews.

From a man in Japan who has romantic attachment to a pillow, to boom in realistic baby dolls, to a movie about a man who falls deeply in love with a life-size silicon woman, our craze for surrogate objects reveals more than simple fetishism.

A gathering of senior scholars in the field agree that the US presence in South Asia invokes a colonial legacy and undermines peace.

In response, most likely, to the (fictional) account of the lesser status of women in Catholicism’s most notorious semi-secret society in The Da Vinci Code, a group of women has come together to explain what feminism looks like, Opus Dei-style.

We might be tempted to dismiss the entire legacy of an artist or thinker whose political position or moral beliefs do not accord with our own enlightened views. We forget that we, like they, are products of an age—and that what we are throwing away might be worth far more than the pieties we cling to.

Fox News has reported that a portion of the Obama administration’s stimulus money wound up supporting gay porn in San Francisco—the religious right is clamoring again to stop arts funding.