Since the day this blog opened for business, your GetReligionistas been saying the same thing over and over about the structure of modern American religion.
Shun, shun the unbelievers (not really)
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Solid science or attack on innocent life?
With President Barack Obama’s announcement that he will change President Bush’s policy on taxpayer funding of stem cell research that destroys embryos, expect quite a bit of media coverage.
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Dueling arguments
Earlier this week, the California Supreme Court heard arguments for and against Californians’ right to define marriage as a union of one man and one woman. There are many reports about those oral arguments and almost every account says that the justices seemed inclined to uphold the voters’ decision in passing Proposition 8.
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"The Joy of Sex": no minor matter?
I’m thrilled when our readers send us story suggestions from papers we might not normally see. Search engines are a wonderful invention, but we still miss articles that might be wonderful examples of factual, fair religion coverage or ones that most clearly are not.
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Connect the Alpha Male dots
Last weekend, I poked the Los Angeles Times because it’s lede on the Dr. James Dobson retirement story went a bit too far. You may recall that it said:
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Emulating Newsweek
My husband and I went to see Milk, the film about the first openly gay man elected to public office in California, a few months ago. We enjoyed the movie, with some exceptions, and I predicted Sean Penn would win the Oscar for best actor — he was just that transcendentally good. And the supporting cast was also amazing.
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The culture of half-smokes
Nia-Malika Henderson had a great and illuminating piece in the Politico. Headlined “Blacks, whites hear Obama differently,” she looks at how President Barack Obama is able to speak in a manner that solidifies his support among blacks while at the same time not alienating non-blacks who speak in a different manner. Here’s how it begins:
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The haunting of Britney's soul
The Divine MZ and I have decided to go shallow, for a day, in a blatant attempt to appeal to search engines.
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Explaining facts and their significance
A few months ago we looked at media coverage of the promulgation of a Bush administration rule dealing with the legal right of health care professionals to practice according to their consciences. Health care professionals who work at organizations that receive funding from the federal government have been protected from being forced to perform abortions since the 1970s. This rule — which costs “only” $44 million to implement — is about making sure those protections are enforced since some medical organizations and societies have penalized or were planning to penalize medical professionals who objected to various abortion-related procedures.
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