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    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
    • Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>
      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
    • Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
      Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
  • Politics/Law
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
    • As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
  • The End of Roe
    • Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
      Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
    • Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
    • Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
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Austin Dacey

Austin Dacey is a contributing editor at Religion Dispatches and the author of The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights. He is currently a senior consultant to the Youth Free Expression Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship.

(A)theologies, Archive, Austin Dacey, New Books, Politics/Law, StoriesAugust 28, 2015

Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

By Austin Dacey

After Ireland made history in May 2015 by becoming the first country to legalize same-sex…

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Austin Dacey, New Books, OMFG, RD BlogAugust 5, 2015

How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?

By Austin Dacey

No, we can’t simply thank anti-communist, anti-Enlightenment Catholics for the elevation of human rights language.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Austin Dacey, New Books, StoriesJuly 31, 2015

Would We Have No Commitment to Equality Without Christianity?

By Austin Dacey

Readers of my last post, and readers of English more generally, could be forgiven for…

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Archive, Austin Dacey, Politics/Law, RD BlogJuly 19, 2015

Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?

By Austin Dacey

Historian Samuel Moyn argues that the history of “human rights” begins only in the twentieth century—and it may owe more to Christianity than to secular ideals.

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Austin Dacey, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD BlogMarch 2, 2015

Religious Freedom is Impossible… Compared to What?

By Austin Dacey

If harm to others is cultural chauvinism, sign me up.

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Austin Dacey, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD BlogFebruary 13, 2015

The Rotten Core at the Heart of Religious Freedom Laws

By Austin Dacey

My previous post on corporate personhood ended by asking for a principled reason why we…

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Austin Dacey, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD BlogFebruary 3, 2015

Corporate Personhood Was a Radical Notion… In the 11th Century

By Austin Dacey

According to one common reaction to Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Court set a precedent…

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Austin Dacey, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 28, 2015

Is “Religious Freedom” Impossible After Hobby Lobby?

By Austin Dacey

Last week the Supreme Court succeeded in deciding a case that it said was too…

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Archive, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesSeptember 23, 2014

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

U.S. conservatives join forces with authoritarian regimes at the UN to resist LGBTQ rights

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Austin Dacey, OMFG, RD BlogJuly 18, 2014

First They Came for the Brotherhood . . . Egyptian Gov Seeks to Criminalize NGOs

By Austin Dacey

Having banned the Muslim Brotherhood and exercised increased control of religious activities at mosques, the military-led regime…

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