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Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…ty Board of Supervisors, Meeting Minutes, April 27, 2020, 9. [56] “About – Virginia Citizens Defense League,” Virginia Citizens Defense League. [57] Brett Barrouquere, “Animated by Conspiracy Theories, Far-right Extremists Seize Opportunity to Rally around Guns in Virginia,” Southern Poverty Law Center, January 24, 2020. [58] “Counties / Cities Adopted,” VA 2nd. [59] Rich Griset, “From Fringe to Force: How a Gun Rights Advocate from Chesterfield M…

Virginia Attorney General Tells Pastors to Get More Involved in Politics

By Julie Ingersoll

Late last week the Virginia Christian Alliance (VCA) and Fredericksburg Christian Schools (FCS) got their own special tutorial on pastors injecting themselves into politics, in Fredericksburg, by the state’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. According to the Washington Post, Cuccinelli provided “guidance on how ministers can be involved in politics without jeopardizing the tax-exempt status of their churches.” The Post reported he has long advocat…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…officials such as Fr. Brian O’Donnell, the executive secretary of the West Virginia Catholic Conference (the public policy arm of the Diocese) reply that “it wouldn’t be prudent” to speak strongly about these things. In a recent email and phone conversation, Fr. O’Donnell also dismissed any concerns about the influence of coal money on the public policy statements of the diocese. “It’s just a non-issue in such discussions,” he told me. “I’m flabbe…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

Celebrating Religious Freedom Day By Taking Back the Revolutionary Meaning of ‘Religious Freedom’

By Frederick Clarkson

…ted to be remembered for authoring the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute, and for founding the University of Virginia. Ragosta says this was because Jefferson saw political freedom, religious freedom, and educational freedom as the great accomplishments of his life. Of the three, Jefferson “thought religious freedom was the foundation because without freedom to think and believe, you could not have the other two.” The promise of…

It’s Time to Put an End to Virginia’s Racist Death Penalty

By LaKeisha Cook

…nalty. A decade ago, this pursuit would have been seen as impossible given Virginia’s status as the state with the highest number of executions in the country going back to colonial times. But as more and more Virginians have come to understand that the Commonwealth’s use of the death penalty is deeply intertwined with the state’s history of lynching and racial terror, it has opened up a dialogue about the death penalty’s place in today’s society….

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson and Cari Jackson

…the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, went home and drafted the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1777. The bill helped rally Virginia’s Baptists and Presbyterians to the cause of the Revolution, which envisioned a future free from persecution by the Anglican Church. It took nearly a decade for the liberatory promise of Jefferson’s bill to become law under the legislative leadership of James Madison. From there, the vision of re…