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Obama Fumbles on Uganda at National Prayer Breakfast

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat the President’s laudable stand makes it clear to Family members in the United States and Uganda that the world is watching. Religion can no longer be used to justify bigotry, intolerance and persecution anywhere on the face of the earth. UCC pastor and blogger Rev. Chuck Currie gushed, “We are fortunate in the United States to have a president of deep faith who is willing to defend human rights.” I watched the speech this morning and I can say…

As UN Considers Status of Women, It’s Time for the Vatican to Take Its Rightful Place

By Mary E. Hunt

…d of clerical hegemony. What do these changes mean for the Holy See at the United Nations, particularly at the CSW? Voluntary withdrawal from discussions at meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women is a good place to start. It is hard to name a state or a religious group that has done more than the Holy See to thwart the spirit and the letter of CSW which affirms that the “full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of a…

The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

…in his Tuesday night speech: “If you’re a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together.” Some Muslim leaders criticized Clinton for trafficking in assumptions that Muslims were not already part of the United States, while Peter Beinart described his assumption that Muslims should be required to prove their loyalty as a “lapse into Trumpism.” The presence of Abdul-Jabbar and Elli…

Religious Leaders Pledge to Protect Religious Freedom—For Everyone

By Sarah Posner

…retary of the United Methodist Church Board of Church and Society, said as she signed the pledge outside, “the continued prejudice and discrimination against Muslims in the United States betrays the core values of religious freedom upon which the United States was founded.” “Tolerance is not enough,” she said, but respect for other faiths “is the pillar of democracy.” This post has been clarified to include the correct language in the pledge….

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…2021 Capitol insurrection two years ago. Given the dynamics present in the United States today (just look at last week’s CPAC), we can expect Christian nationalist violence to increase in the future. Paradoxically, the thumping Christian nationalist political candidates took during the 2022 midterm elections—including the failed gubernatorial candidacies of Pennsylvania’s Doug Mastriano, Maryland’s Dan Cox, and Arizona’s Kari Lake—will likely deep…

The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism

By Chrissy Stroop

…prioritization of growth and power that motivated MacArthur has robbed the United States of an important source of social cohesion in a time of crisis.” Never mind that evangelical subculture has been a source of division in America since well before 2020. It’s after spending some time on MacArthur, however, that Hinch gets to what seems to be the crux of the matter for him—criticizing those of us writing pieces critical of evangelical Christian n…

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

By Eric C. Miller

…a of the West as a “Judeo-Christian civilization” comes primarily from the United States, although important Christian conservatives from continental Europe also subscribed to it. It was fundamentally an anti-totalitarian idea: both Communism and Nazism were seen as threats to the religious values on which the West was understood to be built. In this way, the idea of Judeo-Christian civilization became an anti-Communist ideology during the Cold Wa…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…practice religion at all.” Other secular organizations including Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom from Religion Foundation have also spoken out against the bill. Arguing against the bill from almost the exact opposite perspective, Governor Haslam justified his veto by stating that treating the Bible as a commodity and historically significant object without acknowledging its God-given holiness was a denigration o…

Manslaughter Conviction of Brittney Poolaw Represents Pattern of White Christian Policing of Black and Brown Women’s Bodies

By Chrissy Stroop

…omen of color particularly.” Looking back to the history of slavery in the United States, Goodwin explained, “Religious leaders often visited plantations, and often they were paid. Their message to Black women and men was that God intended their enslavement and that enslaved Black people should be good to their masters.” Today’s Christian Right, in its zealous pursuit of extremist anti-choice politics, continues this legacy through differential, r…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he ad — ‘2 Iyers, two Muslims and a couple of others. Let’s see!’” France: United Protestant Church OK’s blessings for same-sex marriages The United Protestant Church in France voted to allow its pastors to bless same-sex marriages, leaving it up to individual pastors and parishes to decide, reports Euronews.com, which says Protestants make up about two percent of the population most of them evangelicals opposed to same-sex marriage. Northern Irel…