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The Supreme Court handed down a decision on Monday that dealt with the gay rights and religious freedom by looking at how non-discrimination clauses can come into conflict with the freedom of association. We’ve looked at Christian Legal Society v. Martinez before here, here, here and here.
The smartest piece I’ve read so far about the Twilight phenomenon, was Caitlin Flanagan’s essay for The Atlantic. To date, I haven’t read the books or seen the movies, but my Mormon upbringing has made me somewhat attuned to a subject that otherwise is primarily of interest to adolescent females. Anyway, here’s Flanagan’s take on the books’ religion and morals:
On Friday, Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel — who covered conservative groups — resigned his position after incendiary partisan emails he had sent were published by the Daily Caller. The day before, some of his intemperate emails were published by Fishbowl DC. He had apologized already for those and chalked them up to a bad day.
Tmatt posted last week on the saga of a lesbian softball coach whose team was kicked out of an adult women’s league by a Southern Baptist megachurch. He pointed out that “too many gaps and unanswered questions” characterized the coverage by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn. If you missed that post, please read it first or this one won’t make any sense.
When people ask me to describe the toughest part of what we do here at GetReligion (other than trying to keep up with all of the blog-related emails flying around all day, with most of these cyber-gnats originating with yours truly), I always offer a two-part answer.
The other day, Cathy Lynn Grossman suggested that some of ironic twists she’s seen in the news come from someone who offers truth claims and then turns out to be hypocritical. You might think another one of those stories is brewing if you read Poynter’s Romenesko blog.
Last week we looked at a piece by Newsweek that suggested Sarah Palin was the new leader of the religious right. I suggested then that Newsweek should have at least mentioned one of Palin’s potential contenders: Mike Huckabee.
Religion News Service has a story about Southern Baptist chaplains opposing reversal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. An edited version ran in the Washington Post on Saturday. They aren’t terribly different but I’ll be working from the Post version for this post. Here’s how it begins:
