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ACLU’s Religious Freedom Suit Against Trump Order: “Gerrymandered to Target Muslims”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nt that it’s nearly unprecedented. While the text neither includes Trump’s pet phrase, “radical Islamic terrorism,” nor the words “Islam” or “Muslim,” it doesn’t have to. The administration “constructed the terms of the executive order” to disproportionately impact Muslim immigrants and refugees, Weaver explains. “The executive order is religiously gerrymandered to target Muslims,” she says. It most directly harms Muslim-Americans who were born or…

A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

…Orthodoxy, became a majority in a number of Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States and brought with them their cultural baggage—most importantly the Culture Wars. The changes were obvious and immediate, both in traditional Orthodox countries and in the diaspora. Of course, Orthodoxy has never been gay-affirming (despite John Boswell’s eloquent but unsubstantiated claims) and abortion had been cause for excommunication since the Middle Ages,…

Sister Rose and a Teenager’s First Headscarf

By Shabana Mir

…ool, extremely fond of Sister Rose, and popular with my friends—“the class pet,” some called me. I had looked up to Sister Rose and empathized with her religiosity. I thought of her tears as she sang a hymn at the nativity play, and I thought of my own tears as I listened to a hamd (an Urdu hymn). With Sister’s rejection of my religiosity came an enormous distancing. It pushed me away from my friends and my social circle. I felt like my trust in e…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Not anymore. On Thursday (Nov. 5), it was revealed that the church issued policy changes to “Handbook 1,” the guide for its lay leadership. Under the changes, same-sex couples who marry are apostates and are unwelcome in church congregations. Going further, the new policy states that the children of same-sex couples cannot be baptized in the church until they are 18 and then only if they disavow their parents. It was the gratuitously cruel and st…

LDS Church Rescinds Hurtful Marriage Policy Without Apology

By Holly Welker

…hwhile to ask: why now? Compare it to the church’s other family separation policy rescinded on April 4, when the church reversed course on its policy, begun in November 2015, of denying being blessed as an infant or being baptized at age eight to children of people in a same-sex relationship—without disavowing the doctrinal rationale behind it. That policy was seen as so vile that it didn’t even last four years. The one-year waiting period for a t…

Getting Wright Wrong: Preaching is Not Policy

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ke on the gospel message, his commitment to the improvement of life in the United States? His deep disappointment with the failures of the United States is connected to a profound hopefulness that the moral and ethical principles that have served to frame our country can be enlivened, and both are presented in passionate language not dissimilar from that used by Hebrew Bible prophets such as the reverend’s namesake, Jeremiah. Rev. Wright’s sense o…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…and urge them to vote “no” on Daschle’s nomination. Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said that “Citizens who care about family values should be concerned about Daschle’s nomination. Constituents should make their opposition heard on this nominee.” “Tom Daschle is a disaster appointment, the opposite of a national protector of health and human services,” Jill Stanek, the head of BornAliveTruth, the anti-abortion…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…ness. Did she aspire to be “White” and did that shape her early career and policy making? Important questions, one would think. Does she have rhythm? Debatable. Does she over-hype a Blackness that some might think is, well, ‘overhyped’ given that she kind of claps on 1 and 3? Possibly. Discussions around aligning with Whiteness for power would yield a much more interesting and honest critique than accusing this woman of not being Black. And of cou…

Grasping At Straws: The Problem with Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

…ortions say it is in part because they cannot afford a child. That is about 800,000 women and girls each year. The only bill they support, The Reducing the Need for Abortions and Supporting Parents Act, includes only a fraction of what would be needed for women to be able to provide for children. The bill was first introduced in 2006 and has never even made it to full committee consideration. None of the groups or individuals active in the common…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…istians about registering and voting.” Stemberger has been involved in the United in Purpose events, too, according to the Florida Independent. He had originally endorsed Rick Perry, but switched to Santorum after the Texas meeting of religious right leaders. United in Purpose held “One Nation Under God” events at 34 Florida churches last year, at which they showed a DVD featuring Gingrich and other religious right figures. According to the group’…