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Unintended Consequences: Overturning Roe v. Wade May Endanger This Cherished Evangelical Practice

By R.L. Stollar

…tal rights as part of the constitutional right to privacy… Roe v. Wade and United States v. Orito (both in 1973) found there to be ‘fundamental’ privacy rights in the domains of marriage, procreation, motherhood, child-rearing, and education in the Constitution. In these and many other cases the Supreme Court has consistently resisted efforts by government to infringe upon the due process rights of parents” (p. 177). And this isn’t mere legal babb…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…me loyalty proof” for Muslims. Cain said, “Yes, to the Constitution of the United States of America.” When Beck then asked “Would you do that to a Catholic or would you do that to a Mormon?” Cain told the host, “Nope, I wouldn’t.” Yesterday, Robert P. George, the Princeton University professor, author of the Manhattan Declaration, and founder of the American Principles Project, brought his conservative Catholic credentials to bear in urging Cain t…

Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish

By David True

…two very different religious cultures, the United States and Britain. The United States remains a proudly religious nation, while Britain is significantly more modest in its observance and public expression of religion. This much is bothersome as a wide range of culture warriors, from those who insist that this is a “Christian Nation” to those who believe that religion must be absolutely separate from politics, might use Fish to insist that their…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…failed to do, GAFCON is doing: enabling global fellowship and godly order, united by biblical faithfulness. This unity has provided us with great energy to continue to work for the renewal of the Anglican Communion. The American Anglican Council is affirming its belief that GAFCON’s leaders provide “the hope for a future Anglican Communion that finds its identity in Jesus Christ and Biblical faithfulness rather than institutional loyalty.” New Zea…

Religious Leaders Accuse Conservatives of Misleading Public on Contraception

By Katie Toth

…of Christ, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, and United Methodist Church also spoke in favor of the legislation, and in support of the campaign. “We hope that we can help women and men understand what’s available to them now and to ask for those things when they come to open enrollment periods with their employers,” said Knox. While the ruling comes into effect in August, many congregants will…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…licy statement that will be changed. He lamented that more children in the United States are raised in families led by unmarried mothers. “Even as we must live with the marriage laws and other traditions of a declining world, those who strive for exaltation must make personal choices in family life according to the Lord’s way whenever that differs from the world’s way,” Oaks said. Azerbaijan: Human Rights Activists Sound Alarm About ‘Vicious Crack…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…t tensions in Jerusalem are at their highest in years. It’s about time the United States joins the international community in expressing real, and consequential, disapproval of this state of affairs. The relationship between America and Israel isn’t one of alliance so much as one of patron and client. When we, as Americans, could be devoting time and energy to building cooperation around issues of national concern—climate change, for example—we ha…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…in countries that are more secular, and that’s really interesting. In the United States we’re on Sundance and Fusion, and via Prime, for Sundance. But I think there’s a nervousness on the part of broadcasters in America—not about taking on politics or Donald Trump, but about taking on the CNP. The fear of taking on the CNP is that you have these national religious broadcast networks, and if I were a big broadcast network in the United States, yea…

Trump and Hindu Nationalism: A Match Made in Bollywood

By Andrea R. Jain

…d by Hindu nationalists who admire him in India. The RHC and its “Humanity United Against Terror Charity Event” represent the Hindu nationalist mindset as a full-blown, transnational political project that paints a diverse religious tradition as a unified religious and political voice, openly reducing non-Hindus, and especially Muslims, to the status of second-class citizens at best—and, more commonly, to members of a terrorist religion. Trump’s s…

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

…s refusal to support the 2011 Palestinian bid to upgrade its status at the United Nations. He told me that someone once joked to him, “Everyone in J Street is to the left of J Street.” The activist added that “a growing conversation on campus is feeding the growth of #IfNotNow,” representing a “growing desire by young people to hold Jewish organizational leaders to account,” and expressing that “these people who claim to represent the Jewish commu…