Anyone who knows anything about the at times dangerous dance between politics and religion in modern America knows that:
Should churches, left or right, serve as polling places?
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Unbridled yearning for same-sex marriage
One of the big stories last week was whether the Supreme Court would hear cases regarding marriage law. The court hasn’t said it will hear a marriage law case. But the coverage leading up to that was most telling.
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Covering Catholics who are more like 'Catholics'
GetReligion readers may recall the case of young Lennon Cihak, who — at the very least — told the Rev. Gary LaMoine (in photo) that he disagreed with the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexual ethics and marriage. Thus, the priest — after long talks with the family — decided that the young man should not be confirmed as a grown-up, loyal Catholic believer.
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Quote of the year on Catholics and American politics
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Puritans lacked an Object for their Thanksgivings?
As of the moment I started writing this post, the following headlines graced — if that’s the right word — the top of The Drudge Report.
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CNN on the superstar Stanleys: The ties that blind
Suffice it to say that I started working my way onto the religion-news beat in the late 1970s, precisely the era in which the Southern Baptist Convention — the mega-denomination in which I was raised, as part of a family active on all levels of SBC life — veered into a civil war that took very few prisoners.
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Shock: Bishops decide to defend Catholic tradition!
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Sun's celebration of brave, pro-gay marriage pastors
One of the big election-day stories in deep-blue, liberal Maryland was the narrow victory for same-sex marriage — especially since the polls were so close going into the final hours.
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Is "marriage equality" our term, their's and everyone else's?
Back in May, I noticed a curious decision by some media outlets to scare quote the term “religious liberty.” Religion News Service defended the use of the scare quotes. Contributor Mark Silk had one defense and editor Kevin Eckstrom had another, writing:
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