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Who Will Catholic Bishops Turn to in Trump Era?

By Patricia Miller

…e Francis counsels: away from politics and back to the gospel. The Catholic bishops were never the heart of the religious right, nor did their congregants ever swell the grassroots the way evangelicals did. But from their strategy of using Medicaid to cut off abortion access for poor women, to their clever leveraging of health insurance to create faith-based carve outs, which led directly to the expanded definition of “religious liberty,” they wer…

Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

By Patricia Miller

…always been about “implementation,” the Little Sisters and other plantiffs using paperwork as an excuse to claim religious liberty exemptions. If it were so easy to find a compromise on “implementation” don’t you think the Obama administration would have done so by now? It’s hard to think of any other issue other than women’s reproductive health where the Supreme Court would be so deferential and willing to punt. In fact, it announces proudly in t…

Will “Do No Harm Act” Do Any Good in Religious Lib Battle?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ourt decision that denied unemployment benefits to an individual fired for using peyote, even though it was for a religious ritual. The problem, according to current critics, is that the law actually went beyond the First Amendment and ushered in a new era of “extreme” religious liberty. Over the course of the past 20 years, RFRA and similar state laws have been used to grant religious individuals and institutions exemptions from laws covering chi…

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…-minded people who decided to oppose the authority of the United States by using weapons and force.” Similarly in the indictment he described the Hutaree as “an anti-government extremist organization” whose members wear a patch on their uniform that includes a cross and the initials CCR. The indictment did not explain that the name Hutaree meant “Christian warrior” and that CCR stands for “Colonial Christian Republic.” “The Hutaree’s enemies,” the…

Unfair Treatment of Women Clergy in the PCUSA and Presbyterian Korean Community

By Gloria Chough

…ies, they are allowed to practice wage discrimination against clergywomen, using the smokescreen of “cultural differences.” I believe the mistreatment is then often bolstered by PGA-supported, male-led groups like the recently formed Evangelical Coalition of Korean American Ministry. Any Korean clergywoman who tries to protest is labeled a troublemaker, or emotionally unstable, to ensure that she is never given voice—a pattern all too familiar to…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hat Russian authorities want to paralyze Agora’s human rights work and are using the judicial system to accomplish this,” said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “For years, the government has been demonizing human rights groups and stifling them with bureaucracy. Now it’s starting to shut them down.” Kenya: Man faces 14 years in prison for ‘sexting’ A Kenyan man, Godfrey Mburu, faces 14 years in prison after…

What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?

By Yazmine Nichols

…le housing study from the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing: Preservation of the remaining subsidized housing stock in Upper Manhattan is critical to ensure that the existing low and moderate income households of the Upper West Side, Manhattan Valley, and Morningside Heights are not displaced; that housing is available in these neighborhoods for low and moderate income households in the future; and that mixed-income neighborho…

Post-Orlando, Trump Reveals His Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…n. Must be tough I have been hitting Obama and Crooked Hillary hard on not using the term Radical Islamic Terror. Hillary just broke-said she would now use! So there you have it: Trump’s definition of strength is a crude domination. He’s not satisfied with simply calling for indiscriminate bombing and torture against organizations like ISIS; he wants to ban all Muslims, even refugees, from entering the United States (despite the Orlando shooter be…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rs of parliament who have stated that they will vote in favor of the bill. Using very offensive language against lawmakers, Ambrosios calls on Greek people to, “Spit on them! Deprecate them! Vote against them! They are not human! They are freaks of nature! Mentally and spiritually sick! They are mentally insane! … Don’t hesitate, then! Wherever you see them, spit on them! Don’t leave them in peace! They are dangerous!” Ambrosios wrote in his blog….

What Justice Gorsuch’s Record Suggests About the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

By Patrick Hornbeck

…wife were one of two lesbian couples who sued the state of Arkansas for refusing to list both spouses’ names on the birth certificates of the children that they had conceived by way of anonymous donors. Under Arkansas law, the name of a married woman’s husband is to be listed on the birth certificate of a child conceived through anonymous sperm donation, but Pavan and her advocates argued that treating same-sex spouses differently violates Obergef…