CULTURE WARS

One of the reasons religious folks fight so hard against change, in the world around them, has as much to do with cultural considerations, as any perceived notion concerning God’s will in the matter. They merely mistake – or chose to invoke – God’s will, by conflating religious considerations with entirely cultural ones, in…

A Jack (Kennedy) Mormon? Huntsman, Jon Jr.

You can almost cut the fingernails-on-a-blackboard sense of hysterical tension, with a proverbial knife. Huntsman – the only ‘thinking man’s cigarette,’ in a world of political Mo-ho’s – is about to reveal himself as a John Kennedy kind of politician; cognizant of his responsibility to see and evaluate things from a constitutional and legal…