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Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…are winning in state after state. In the past six years, we’ve doubled the number of private school choice programs to 50, the number of private school choice states to 25, plus Washington, D.C., and doubled the number of students currently benefiting from private school choice to 400,000. All told, together, we’ve helped more than a million kids in private school choice programs, and we’re just getting started. “Just getting started”: we should n…

Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

By Emma Cieslik

…tcomes along a spectrum, ranging, according to the New York Times “from outright rejection to more nuanced reasonings” (declaring, in other words, whether or not a Catholic is permitted to devote themselves to it or whether it challenges or contradicts the Roman Catholic faith). Those promoting the validity of a rejected event could face penalties from the Church. Of course, this isn’t the first time the Church has pulled rank. According to a seri…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…is a “former homosexual” that would make them a heterosexual with way more rights than any LGBT person right now. Back in 1992, there were no “gay marriages” or pending lawsuits against B&B owners – but there were already those in the majority talking like they were the victims. Buchanan’s speech laid the groundwork for the increasing volume of “majority victimization” we see today. This time, however, the real victims can’t afford to sit silently…

Religious Right Doubles Down on DOMA

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in the ongoing litigation challenging DOMA.” On the other side, the Human Rights Campaign and Get Equal are urging supporters to write their lawmakers to urge them “to focus on job creation, rather than on discrimination.” The NAE underscores the urgency of requests from both sides: Congress now has 30 days to decide whether it will defend DOMA in judicial lawsuits. The House of Representatives, the Senate, or both, can appoint legal counsel to d…

How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream

By Katherine Kelaidis

…t to the right over the past thirty years; it’s about a key factor in that rightward shift. The rightward movement of American politics up to and including the election of Donald Trump has been driven by a specific demographic, a demographic defined by religious and racial identity: namely, white evangelical Protestants. Few demographics poll more consistently conservative on a variety of issues from abortion to immigration. None is a more loyal o…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…who search for the Garden of Eden). Everyone wants you to have the answer. Right, like the quest for the Garden of Eden, what’s fascinating is the stories that come out of it, it’s not like somebody’s got the right answer…that’s not the interesting thing. The process I think of taking that apart and looking at all these stories becomes so much more important, and part of our role as researchers is to say “look, that’s asking the wrong question, th…

Maybe Instead of Solidarity, The Religious Left Should Try Being Indivisible

By Daniel Schultz

…e that if it can project just the right faith-rooted message with just the right messenger or messengers, the broad middle of Americans who only want to do the right thing can be reconciled across racial and political lines. This will then somehow usher in a new progressive era of peace and justice. In a word, the religious left is extremely, politically, naive. Listen, the fight for a more “moral politics” never was going to be a success. Saying…

Why Jason Collins’ Faith is Ignored… And Tebow’s Isn’t

By T.F. Charlton

…ng black communities than it is in the culture wars of the white religious right. So it’s no coincidence that black Christians in the public eye are often overlooked by the religious right and the media until they express religious opinions that ﬁt into the politicized framing of the culture wars (see: Bishop Harry Jackson, Ben Carson and, of course, Chris Broussard). In such a media culture, there’s little room for Christians like Collins, battli…

What Netanyahu Learned from Texas

By Sarah Posner

…ge, that deletes “equality” as a goal of the Jewish state, that grants the right of way to “Jewish” aspects of policy and secondary status to democratic principles, that opens the door to deporting non-Jews, in particular African asylum seekers, and to depriving Arabs of rights and privileges, and to neutering the Supreme Court as the last vestige of a check and balance to a clown car of a government, a government determined to see how far you can…

Pope Francis Says Teaching Gender Is Nasty; Far-Right Religious Groups Helping Mexico’s Anti-Equality Movement; Colombia’s Peace Deal Killed by Anti-LGBT Campaign?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orts Associated Press. Russia: Study examines courts’ record on protecting rights of LGBT people Equal Rights Trust released “Justice or Complicity: LGBT Rights and the Russian Courts.” From a press release: Justice or Complicity? examines judicial practice on issues ranging from homophobic and transphobic violence to restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly. It also reviews cases dealing with discrimination in areas including family and…