Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. November 4, 2008. The reclusive billionaire, the mother of Blackwater's Erik Prince, and the drive to fund this year's most controversial referendum.
Ray Ring, High Country News. October 22, 2008. California's Prop. 8 has exploded into an expensive, extensive battle between religious conservatives and gay rights advocates.
Arthur Versluis, American Sexuality Magazine. October 3, 2008. From antiquity on, there were people in the West who held that spirituality and sexuality were not necessarily mortal enemies.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 9, 2008. Is she comfortable with a government that remains entirely neutral on matters of faith ... because that's kind of supposed to be the U.S.'s thing.
Nathan Schneider, AlterNet. September 9, 2008. People are whispering that McCain's VP pick doesn't believe in evolution. But how much would this really affect policy?
Douglas MacKinnon, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 29, 2008. "When the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call labels your latest novel "a Christian Jihad," angry emails are sure to follow."
PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: PEEK. July 12, 2008. Unlike those nutty Muslims who are always taking offense over cartoons, these people have serious grievances.
Frederick Lane, Beacon Press. July 3, 2008. Even worse, Bush wants to ensure that faith-based organizations receiving federal funds can discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. June 20, 2008. Lauri Lebo, author of Devil in Dover, gives an insider's account of a historic court battle about dogma and Darwin in small-town America.
Lara Riscol, RH Reality Check. June 6, 2008. Mainstream media perpetuate the false assumption that sex and family values don't mix by only talking to conservatives about religion and sexuality.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. June 5, 2008. The pro-life movement cares more about social control than the lives it claims to protect.
