Wendy Cadge

Wendy Cadge is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is the author of Heartwood: the First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and is working on a second book, Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine.

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Friday, November 14th, 2008

The blame game

How did the same people who elected Barack Obama President last Tuesday vote to pass Proposition 8 in California, the state ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage? My liberal friends in Massachusetts and across the country are organizing protests and hanging their heads. “We expected more from California,” they mutter under their breath.

Read the rest of The blame game.