Pop culture is crazy religious. Lilit Marcus is on the case.
You’re not supposed to talk about religion, sex, or politics in polite company, but reality TV is not polite company. MTV’s Teen Mom franchise obviously talks a lot about sex, and politics comes up occasionally in the form of abortion/adoption conversations. Religion, though, doesn’t come up much on the show. However, many of the girls [...]
Actor Daniel Radcliffe, best known for being Harry Potter (although I saw him on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and he was so good in it, you guys), has broken from his support of Britain’s Liberal Democrats party. He announced the change in an interview with Attitude magazine, but that’s [...]
Real Time host Bill Maher makes no secret of his atheism, even making a documentary (Religulous) on the topic. But when he recently learned that Republican presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney had had his atheist father-in-law posthumously baptized into the Mormon church, Bill couldn’t let that act go unchallenged. It’s normal for LDS members to [...]
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