Dump Your Wings | Run Fast From Tea Party Exorcists and the Bible Brigade

Will Carine Roitfeld Use Candice Swanepoel For An Angels Shootout in Vogue Paris? Sensually Yours

I wrote in my Sensually Yours column this morning that if I had a young daughter, I would begin working to get her dual citizenship. Simply stated, I am terrified for the future of our young women, not just because of losing our reproductive rights but because of a strong evangelical movement to make men the boss again in America.

The women of America will be split into two camps in the coming years: the Mama Grizzlies and the Snake Charmers. You probably know where I fit in.

I’m not cocky or cute in writing these words. When the state of Utah passes a bill that made miscarriage a felony and it only escaped becoming law because the governor vetoed the bill, I’m very frightened for the young women of America.

The militias are coming for us, making a travesty of the founding principles of this country. Pope Benedict is close behind. And my alma mater Victoria’s Secret wants women to wear wings so big that we can’t run fast from the exorcist in hot pursuit of the devil in us.

Tea Party Propoganda

This is not the America that I know and love, but it is the America I fear we are becoming.

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America the Beautiful | Rise of the New Right

Is Australian fashion veering off in a new direction here? Military looks are always ‘hot’ in the summer and for transition into fall. Of course, we’re in the opposite season in Australia. Sarah Stephens by Carlotta Moye for Madison Magazine promotes a wholesome version of motherhood in their new issue. More photos Fashion Gone Rogue.

Perhaps the images caught me off guard, having watched the Chris Matthews MSNBC documentary ‘Rise of the New Right’ last evening.

We’ll extend this post after reading the reviews. From our point of view, the documentary read ‘true’.

In fact, I remember driving north out of Boulder, Colo in the late 90s and was stunned to find myself in an America so different from my own values. Hatred and venom filled the airwaves.

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The Big Chill | Will God Govern America?

Today’s Sander Hicks essay The Devil in The Vatican caught my eye.

Hicks writes that having left the Catholic Church for 10 years, he was astounded when he returned, to see just how conservative the Catholic Church is under Pope Benedict.

Last night the Vatican heatedly defended Pope Benedict XVI claiming accusations against his handling of the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic “hate” campaign targeting the pope for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. via AP

A shiver went up my spine, reading that any attempt to criticize the Vatican is not permitted, is irreligious and against family values.

The NYT weighs in this morning with Abuse Crisis Strains Vatican’s Ancient Ways of Management, saying:

 … Benedict’s papacy has gone from crisis to crisis points to its difficulties as an ancient institution still struggling with modernity, even though the liberalizing Second Vatican Council in the 1960s was supposed to update the church’s relation to the world. Instead, it is facing the growing pains of a bureaucracy created in the 16th century to contend with the Protestant Reformation and the discovery of the New World. By some lights, it is still grappling with both.

In fact, Pope Benedict and the Cardinals generally intend to roll back Vatican II.

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Georgia Law Proposes 10 Yrs in Jail for Doctors Providing Abortions Based on Race or Gender

Georgia’s House of Representatives Rules Committee passed in a 7-6 vote a bill that will imprison health care providers for 10 years with a fine of $25,000 for performing an abortion prompted by the baby’s race or gender. Pregnant women would not be held liable.

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