…flashpoint for both sides in America’s culture wars during the 2004 campaign after Bush endorsed the constitutional ban to shore up political support on the religious right. Cheney, who served…

…you to pray or otherwise interfere with your private religion. We won’t force you to pay for other people’s religious choices. We still won’t let you smoke pot on the…

…of thousands of its citizens to the altar of their own  personal  religio-political dogmas.   [For a discussion of the role of fundamentalist religious dogmas in Tea Party politics, see, e.g.,…

…ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down Where the spirit meets the bone. Forget your perfect offering. There is a…

…legion; followed by aedile, in charge of religious observances and festivals. The next rung higher was “praetor,” similar to a colonel or brigadier general in an army, who also acted…

…into war, has kept us in wars for too long. One that, because they could, long denied the rights of personhood, citizenship, to million of American; and are still doing…

…east and beyond the wars over oil and religious insanity we find drought. Mega-drought, rapid desertification, and the outright theft of one nation/state’s water by her neighbor to the south…

…The draft decision has been a clarifying moment for the country. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin told journalists to stop referring to the convulsions in the country today as “culture wars,” as…

…Given that Webster defines culture as being ‘the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group’; gun culture doesn’t seem right. No doubt, in…

…agreed, rather than the idea that might makes right, which had twice in just over twenty years brought wars that involved the globe. Part of the mission of the U.N….