The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]
Project Blitz and legislators like Reed, who are willing to nationalize Christianity, threaten our Constitution.
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Clergy Shouldn’t Be Able to Steal Funds for Grindr or Dolls
We could debate whether immoral people seek out positions in the clergy or whether clerical life corrupts people, but that debate misses the point.
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Is God a Winning Strategy for Democrats?
Pete Buttigieg and other Democrats have begun to talk up their Christian beliefs in hope of appealing to more voters, but there are a few problems with that approach.
Read MoreSCOTUS’ Bladensburg Cross Ruling Is a Church-State Mess
Alito’s majority opinion is bereft of both principle and reason. He could have been more concise and lost little nuance by simply writing: ‘The 40ft tall Christian cross is really old and people will get upset if we remove it, so it stays.’
Read MoreNational Day of Prayer Is Illegal, But Courts Won’t Hear Challenges
In 2010 the district court correctly decided that the National Day of Prayer violated the First Amendment: “Its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function.” On appeal, the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not disagree—it couldn’t—but it tossed the case.
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Government Prayer Isn’t Inclusive—Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise
In the run up to Easter and the National Day of Prayer, chaplains and guest chaplains around the nation have sowed religious division and discord as they delivered prayers at state legislatures, and now, federal courts are giving them their stamp of approval.
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Justice Thomas Fails on Religious Test Answer
Thomas’s opinion on religious tests wasn’t about right or wrong, or even of the Constitution, it’s a political argument designed to muzzle such questions in hopes of easing and paving a path for conservative justices who would place faith above the Constitution.
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If You Don’t Have Peace You Don’t Have Jesus, Preacher Tells Georgia House of Representatives
The past couple of weeks have shown the country that, even though the Supreme Court has said prayers are constitutional, government bodies should stop organizing them. They are divisive, intimidating, coercive—and certainly unbecoming in bodies that represent our increasingly pluralistic communities.
Read MoreChristian or Nothing: Buddhist Prisoner to be Executed Without Buddhist Chaplain (Updated)
In the rare instances when courts roll back Christian privilege, the cries of persecution are swift. But parity is not oppression. And the erosion of unwarranted privilege is not persecution; it is the steady march toward equality.
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Penn. Legislator’s Jaw-Dropping Prayer Showcases America’s Christian Nationalism Problem
That a state legislator’s prayer was meant to intimidate non-Christians seems self-evident, but it’s probably less clear to many observers that the prayer is also a symptom of a virulent strain of Christian nationalism.
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