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The Problem with the Notion of “Closely-Held Corporations” in Hobby Lobby

By Kara Loewentheil

…rotection for human beings. A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends. . . . protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby . . . protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies. Given that, it makes sense only to recognize religious rights for a for-profit entity when the entity’s owners are unanimous in their beliefs and their desired action….

A Scholar Responds: Scripture as a Weapon

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s that “the people” retain the right “to keep and bear Arms.” But why? Because a “well-regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State.” The people retain the right to bear arms, that is to say, in defense of the State, since they may be called up in their capacity as a Militia to such a defense. The right to bear arms is related to the duty to be drafted into the nation’s defense. The fact is that the constitutional framers were at…

Constitutional Attorney Changes into Drag During Talk on Cancelation of West Texas A&M Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…US constitutional law, Seidel moved on to discuss the Christian Right’s abuse of these key concepts. He noted how the weaponization of “religious freedom” as a bludgeon for Christian supremacy, in tandem with the Right’s successful scheme to stack the federal courts with Christian nationalist ideologues, is pushing the United States backwards on civil rights. Seidel also addressed the history and significance of drag as an art form, noting that S…

God’s Obituary: A Humanist Response to Mass Murder

By Anthony B. Pinn

…all the answers. Rather, in light of human tragedy, humanists might offer better questions during these challenging times, as well as a space for wrestling with these questions free of cosmic justifications—and a God clearly missing in action. I write this not to deny comfort for those who have been directly and indirectly touched by this unspeakable act of violence. Mine is an effort to acknowledge and respect grief without so quickly pushing t…

Mumbai, Five Months After: Searching for a Coherent Stance on Religious Violence

By Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

…have not led to violence against ordinary Muslims (this may be partly because Hindu chauvinist groups chose not to exploit these tragedies, and partly because they simply failed to get sufficient support from ordinary Hindus). But the point is that her approach was symptomatic of the Left’s treatment of violence in the name of Islam—it concentrated on the possibility and reality of violence by those deemed the enemy by jihadis: white Americans in…

As Funny as the Times Will Allow: Obama on Late Night TV

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…agedy, but it exists in uneasy relation to morality. Comic artists must be free to offend, free to be mean. This doesn’t mean that there should be no restriction on what the comedian can say, by the way; not at all. Comedians, like all artists, need constraints in order to show off their creative virtuosity. It is the audiences that need to restrain themselves; they need to permit themselves a laugh. Or not. The question, then, is not whether it w…

Romney’s Debate Coach and his Religion Answer

By Sarah Posner

…ianity, when he gave the “Judeo-Christian” answer last night I cringed—because he didn’t balance it with a free exercise answer. In other words, while he doesn’t need to defend Mormonism, he should defend his right to practice it (or anyone else’s right to practice their religion). Instead, he hewed to the “Judeo-Christian” answer, one intended to comfort conservatives who fret that Mormonism isn’t Christian, but that nonetheless reinforces their…

The Big Lie Misrepresentation in Louisiana “Seal of Confessional” Case

By Jason Hines

The systematic abuse of the free exercise clause strikes again. In this latest episode, according to bloggers at Hot Air and the American Conservative, “[t]he Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that a priest must testify in a case about what he heard in a confessional,” and “Fr. Bayhi will have to go to jail to protect the seal of the confessional.” These pundits can, to some extent, be forgiven for these misleading statements since the Catholic C…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…slow and gradual change, and stand united against radical attempts to bring it swiftly. But that’s not their true face. Conservatism in practice is a radical ideology reserving the right to betray its stated principles, and to betray community and brotherhood, if it doesn’t get what it wants. Thanks to Jerry Falwell Jr., that’s now easy to see….

The Jarring Ugliness of Beauty Queen Carrie Prejean

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…at people saw — it was the ugliness of her words, the cognitive dissonance between a beautiful body and ugly bigotry that caused people to criticize her and that is what shocked Prejean. I’m sure, before this moment, no one had ever criticized her. They were too busy fawning over her because of her all-American good looks. She believed that her breasts, her pretty white teeth, her blonde hair, and her white skin would shield her from all attack. T…