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Supreme Court: Law School Christian Group Can’t Exclude Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…h Posner reported here in April, “CLS, which requires members and those wishing to hold leadership positions in the club to be professing Christians and to disavow ‘unrepentant participation in or advocacy of a sexually immoral lifestyle,‘” was refused an exemption from the law school’s anti-discrimination policy, which includes sexual orientation, in order to gain that recognition. The Court ruled 5-4 that the college’s decision did not violate t…

What Salman Rushdie’s Attacker Shares with Insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…he Boston marathon bombings in 2013. The older brother especially was something of an underachiever, having essentially failed at all his endeavors. In Matar’s case, he also had failed academically and had been working at a Marshall’s clothing store in a job that did not inspire him. In the off-hours he worked out at a gym and was trying to learn how to box, though some of the other regulars at the gym said he was not very good at it. What did ins…

Falling in Love With the Earth: Francis’ Faithful Ecology

By Jacob J. Erickson

…everyday is an intrinsic part of an ecological conversion to the earth. (Think of it this way: by my count the word “ecology” occurs thirty-three times in the encyclical. The word “beauty” occurs twenty-seven times). Another point of connection is the theme of integral ecology. In a nod to liberation theology and Leonardo Boff in particular it seems, Laudato si refuses to make the choice between human and ecological life a zero-sum game. Pope Fra…

Freedom Through the Eyes of Bishops and Filmmakers

By Peter Montgomery

…am Lori, who chairs the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. “This is something we do as lovers of our country,” Lori says, “as lovers of the American experiment in limited government.” In a Q&A published in the official newspaper of the Baltimore archdiocese, Lori makes it clear that in addition to their dissatisfaction with the Obama administration’s accommodations in the HHS mandate on contraception in insurance coverage, the bishop…

Are Mormons Changing Their Stance on Homosexuality?

By John-Charles Duffy

…gender attraction” might never be able to enter a heterosexual marriage within this life. (He hinted they would be able to do so in the afterlife.) Over the past decade and a half, support has grown at LDS headquarters for the idea that homosexuality may be inborn and immutable. Those who hold this view—no one’s named it, but I’ll call it the “inborn/celibacy” view—still regard acting on homosexual tendencies as sinful, but celibacy rather than r…

A Link to Jewish History, RBG’s Iconic Collars Were a Beacon for the Marginalized

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. But they didn’t go alone. They brought a framed needlepoint with them, designed and stitched by member Bonnie Bacich. It depicted Justice Ginsburg against a vivid blue background. Behind her glasses, her eyes were blank—like the bound eyes of Lady Justice. Around the edges, Bacich’s friend Arlene Spector added a biblical quote to the design: “She speaks with wi…

Tony Perkins Puts Foot Down After Republican Bondage Spending

By Mark Bergen

…o the Republican National Committee, the fundraising arm of the GOP. “I’ve hinted at this before,” Perkins writes, “but now I am saying it: Don’t give money to the RNC.” The decree by Perkins arrives two days after the news surfaced that RNC staff spent its funds lavishly, dropping nearly $2,000 at Voyeur, a bondage-themed nightclub. Voyeur specializes in high-end erotica that, when Committee members visited, featured topless female dancers stimul…

Texas Textbooks, Kenyan Constitution, And Slurs Of “That Jew” and “Monkey God”

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…ography? Well, I’m shocked,” said Rep. Bart Gordon. A New York Times editorial today calls the incident a “stunt” intended to cut spending on the National Science Foundation. “This is how things are now in Congress as partisans propose mousetrap amendments aimed more at campaign smears than doing good.”…

Why Republicans Don’t Think Obama Is Christian

By Sarah Posner

…age selecting “Muslim” is notably higher than in other polls conducted on this topic. This difference likely depends on how the question is phrased. Previous survey questions about Obama’s religion tend to sound like a pop quiz — such as “do you happen to know the religious faith of Barack Obama?” But by asking “what Obama believes deep down?” I was intentionally granting respondents license to stray from the pesident’s self-reported Christian fai…

RDBook: Technology and Tradition: Carlson’s Indiscrete Image

By Nathan Schneider

…ed culture wars. It neither endorses a program of ethical rights and wrongs nor wears any political colors—although one can imagine those on either side gerrymandering its logic to their purposes. What Carlson fashions is something more basic than all that—built from the material of tradition and the worldliest contemporary reflection, he describes a way of thinking about being human in the mess of modernity….