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Secular Group Calls On Obama To “Keep His Word” on Faith-Based Office

By Sarah Posner

…stian group to adhere to its non-discrimination policy in order to achieve official campus recognition, World Vision was quick to issue a press release expressing disappointment in the outcome, but asserting that the decision would not in any way erode its ability to discriminate for religious reasons. World Vision vowed to “continue to vigorously defend its constitutional and statutory freedom to remain faith-based through its staffing decisions,…

Score One For The Homosexual Agenda

By Sarah Posner

…eing banished from campus. It only faced not receiving all the benefits of official recognition, such as use of limited student activity fees. But the framing is typical of how the religious right pits LGBT rights against religious freedom — insisting the two can’t co-exist, in this case because the CLS can’t require LGBT students to denounce their own “sexually immoral lifestyle.” This has long been the strategy of the religious right, in higher…

Immigration in Our Lovely Deseret

By Joanna Brooks

…the fact that the Church’s strongest growth in the U.S. over the last decade has been among Latino populations and that worldwide almost 4.5 million LDS Church members are Spanish-speaking. The LDS Church’s official stance on immigration holds that immigration policy is the “province of government” but urges “compassion and careful reflection” in matters affecting immigrants and their families….

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

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ions—to choose between welcoming all students and forgoing the benefits of official recognition, we hold, Hastings did not transgress constitutional limitations. CLS, it bears emphasis, seeks not parity with other organizations, but a preferential exemption from Hastings’ policy. Justice Samuel Alito, not surprisingly, wrote in dissent, bemoaning the tolerance found on college campuses: “Our proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…lobbyists for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops when they visited the Hill. Kelley added, “where the bishops engage on a very personal level, it makes a huge difference.” Those powerful groups—the NAE, the NHCLC, and the USCCB—all oppose the UAFA. The USCCB, reacting to Schumer’s April proposal, took the position that it was an “important first step,” but that there were “flaws in the framework that require revision, including a con…

Lou Engle Attempts To Backpedal On Uganda Anti-Gay Bill

By Sarah Posner

…o empower Oyet to gather signatures in support of the bill AS a government official. What Engle said to Sharlet is similar to what he said in his written statement, after claiming that the bill’s supporters actually wanted to lessen its penalties: “However, they were committed to raise up a principled stand to protect their people and their children from an unwelcome intrusion of homosexual ideology into an 83% Christian nation, an intrusion that…

Rand Paul: We Wouldn’t Need Laws If Everyone Were Christian

By Sarah Posner

…ctionism, R.J. Rushdoony. Howard Phillips, the former Nixon administration official who founded the Conservative Caucus and Constitution Party (formerly the U.S. Taxpayers Party) and co-founded the powerful Council for National Policy, claims Rushdoony as his mentor. Phillips once observed, “Much of the energy in the home school movement, the Christian school movement, the right-to-life movement, and in the return of Christians to the political wo…

Father Does Not Know Best: How To Fix the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…cades were not done by a few bad apples who spoiled the bushel, as Vatican officials have long insisted about the perpetrators. Rather, what comes into sharper and sharper focus with each new hideous revelation is that the hierarchical model of the Church, with absolute authority vested in a few individuals at each step up the ladder (a priest in his parish, a bishop in his diocese, a pope in Rome) is in and of itself a danger zone. Human organiza…

Dreaming Beyond the Madman: Reflections on the Revolution in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…are would provide for his comfort in a mental hospital. He has refused any official title, going by “Brother Leader” and “Guide of the Revolution” and other such vacuous and pretentious false humilities; in his decades in power, he’s been busy producing a new flag (the only monochromatic flag in the world), writing an incoherent work of philosophy (the Green book, green like the flag), and producing a new kind of state. It is, officially, the Grea…

The Ground Zero-Sum Game

By Reuven Firestone

…Its roots can be traced to the fourth century when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. After suffering centuries of bloody persecution under pagan Roman authority, Christians suddenly became privileged citizens of the empire. Many leaders of the Church considered the sea-change a divine sign of the absolute truth of their religion, that historical success proves theological truth. It was a zero-sum view of the world: “Tr…