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A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…men on their staff lead happy and healthy sex lives, and to have only the number of children they can feed, clothe, educate, and love. Perhaps I’m a romantic, but I like to think they’re actually hoping that the administration turns down the CHA’s appeal for an exemption from providing that coverage. Conscience Over the Bishop in Phoenix Let’s talk process. Catholicism has a well-developed theory about cooperating in “evil.” While I don’t for an…

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

…least, Democrats should be honest about their own self-interest here, not hide behind Diaspora Jews—who are actually growing increasingly and more deeply critical of Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a foreign leader, came to this week’s AIPAC conference and railed against Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. Congresswoman. He obsessed over her as though she was the main threat to American Jews, while barely mentioning the 11 American lives lost in a…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…efused to allow a trans* student to live in student housing appropriate to his gender, and at California Baptist University, which expelled a trans* student from its nursing program in 2013 for alleged fraud because she chose the “female” box for “gender” on her application for admission. Both trans* students sued their former schools, but courts largely sided with the universities in both cases. With the urgency created by the most active forms o…

A State Without a Mexican

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…faith-based perspective. Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference: “Today, Arizona stands as the state with the most xenophobic and nativist laws in the country.” With similar outrage Jim Wallis, President and CEO of Sojourners proclaims: It is not just about Arizona, but about all of us, and about what kind of country we want to be… This law will make it illegal to love your neighbor in Arizona, a…

Freedom of Religion Means Freedom for All

By Lauri Lebo

…e AG said. “But, if this is: I don’t like this religion, and I don’t like this religion on this block. Or: I don’t like this religion in this city. Then I agree with Mayor Bloomberg. Then I agree with the community board that approved the mosque.” “What are we about, if not religious freedom? What is the country about if not religious freedom? What is this state about if not religious freedom? Well, religious freedom except I don’t like this relig…

Does God Hate Health Care? How About Public Schools? Or Bridges?

By Joanna Brooks

…ck Obama himself. And never mind the outrage over the alleged ugliness of this campaign. Remember California’s anti-immigrant Proposition 187 and anti-marriage equality Proposition 8? It’s one thing when powerful men backed by multi-billion dollar corporate political funds hurl insults at each other; it’s another when everyday citizens vote away the rights of their minority neighbors. Setting aside this week’s distractions, the ideological centerp…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…urch Joseph F. Smith said, “We’ve got a problem. There are good people on this earth who think they’re doing God a service to kill us.” What Mormons experienced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sounds pitifully familiar to the Islamophobia we witness today, when political operatives exploit popular fear of terrorism to promote base anti-Muslim sentiment, as Sarah Posner shows in this important RD article. If LDS Church Presiden…

Obama Calls for Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in SOTU

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…this country, they must be able to honest and open about who they are. Anything less is cheapens their lives and their courage. It’s a promise the gay and lesbian community has heard from Obama already. He promised in his campaign to repeal DADT during his first year in office. Obviously, that did not happen. Gay and lesbian people are angry and discouraged these days after marriage equality defeats in Maine, New Jersey, California, and New York….

Anachronistic Arrogance: How Scorning Our Intellectual Mothers and Fathers Makes Us Real Dumb Real Fast

By Peter Laarman

…public endorsement as Christianity as the official county religion (quite hilarious to think about in the context of LA’s religious demography). Last week I took part in a university-based panel discussion for Fulbright scholars on the challenge of religious pluralism in US society. Along the way I mentioned, in a positive context, Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. Almost on cue, another panelist immediately took it upon…

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…his words seem prescient about the potential dangers facing this nation. While white minority rule in America is not inevitable, it is becoming an increasing possibility as a considerable contingent of this country believes they have the God-given duty to preserve white supremacy no matter the cost, have the armed capability to cause social and political unrest, and sympathetic politicians in a major political party willing to aid and abet them i…