culture wars

Roundup: Welcome to the Culture War

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by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

December 3, 2010 - 9:00am (Print)

As if we didn't have enough foreign wars, it looks like a cultural war over abortion is ready to ignite in 2011.

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Mark Sanford, George Tiller, and the Politics of Hypocrisy

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by Fred Block, UC Davis

June 25, 2009 - 7:19am (Print)

Charging fallen politicians with hypocrisy fundamentally misses the point that has been in dispute during the culture wars.

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Tempest in a Teapot: The Non-Controversy of Obama's Notre Dame Commencement Speech

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

May 13, 2009 - 3:20pm (Print)

Protesters at Notre Dame fear that President Obama will use his commencement speech to "co-opt" the Catholic vote and promote his "extreme views on abortion." No need for either: the vast majority of Catholics already agree with him.

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The Wrong Recipe for Ending The Culture Wars? A Response to Saletan

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

February 22, 2009 - 11:21pm (Print)

In today's New York Times, William Saletan offers a misguided prescription for ending the "culture" wars and perpetuates the myths of "moral" versus "practical."

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On The Betrayal of King's Legacy and Culture Wars, A Reverend Speaks Out

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by Osagyefu Uhuru Sekou, Religion Dispatches

January 19, 2009 - 4:06pm (Print)

Unlike the recent document claiming reconciliation between evangelicals and progressives the only way democracy has ever been expanded in the US, according to the Rev. Sekou, is by the defeat of conservative evangelical positions.
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