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Jeb Bush Is Confused About Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

…’s recently enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Like Pence, Bush is wrong, but Bush’s elaboration laid bare his considerable confusion about the issue. The Washington Post reports: “I think Governor Pence has done the right thing,” Bush said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show”. “Florida has a law like this. Bill Clinton signed a law like this at the federal level. This is simply allowing people of faith space to be able to express their beliefs, to h…

Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness

By Alan Levinovitz

…l, honest-to-god humiliation on someone—even if they deserve it—just feels wrong now, as if the amazing gift I’ve been given is contingent on renouncing ill-will completely. “Careful, Alan,” says the Tao. “Don’t fuck it up by being a dick.” Lin also nails it when he writes that Tao cultivators have “infinite wisdom” that goes “beyond the understanding of the conventional mind.” We sages realize that what appears useless can be useful. As Lin expla…

Bishops Reject Proposed Compromise with Obama on Contraception Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…olic Church must directly send women to drugs and devices that are morally wrong and can do harm to them. The Hawaii compromise was first proposed in October by Melissa Rogers, the former chair of Obama’s Advisory Council to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She described the Hawaii law, and a similar one in New York, as allowing religious employers that refuse to cover contraceptives to “provide written notification to enro…

New Research May Explain the Weakness of Centrism and the Religious Left

By Daniel Schultz

…m, and they weren’t interested in playing nice with people they considered wrong-headed at best and apostates at worst. I was once told by a member of my congregation that I was the kind of guy who would hold the gas chamber doors when “they” ushered in conservative Christians, which spoiled any transpartisan illusions I may have had. To make matters worse, the explosion of the “nones” in recent years meant that Democrats had a lot more to lose by…

How to Separate Jewishness from Zionism

By Shaul Magid

…at they extend beyond Jews or Judaism. And the persecution of the Jews was wrong only if it is also wrong for those who live under Jewish power. One can surely take issue with her readings of these figures but I will leave that for more scholarly reviews. But the question—or perhaps meta-question—upon which this experiment rests is one worth debating in Jewish public space. Arendt’s critique of the nation-state and state violence in On Totalitaria…

Santorum from the Religion Angle

By Sarah Posner

…ly in the Constitution, and that’s of sexual liberty. And I think that’s a wrong, that’s a destructive element.” This statement, of course, is wrong as a matter of fact, and reflects a bizarre misinterpretation of constitutional law. The rights protected by the First Amendment (including the right to free exercise of religion) are not preempted by rights protected by the 14th Amendment—under which the courts have never recognized a right to “sexua…

Karen Armstrong, Caped Anti-Anti-Muslim Crusader?

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ligion that acts like the mafia, that will fucking kill you if you say the wrong thing,” and going nearly unchallenged on national TV. Today, the kind of oversimplification that prompts Bill Maher’s unacceptable Islamophobia seems to have whipped Armstrong into what, for her, is a frenzy. Had she been on that infamous episode of Real Time, she would have come in somewhere closer to Affleck than to Nicholas Kristof’s almost-offensively-mild retort,…

Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse

By Stephen Young

…’s post channels another form of Himpathy as well. He stipulates that “the wrong response to Jan’s misdeeds … is to ban, censor, and eliminate Jan’s scholarly work,” which “stands on its own, and is indispensable.” Indeed, “I will continue to use it, cite it, and honor it for its excellence.” What remains notable about Joosten is that he is “one of the finest Hebraists of our time.” Similarly, another man was quick to emphasize that even though wh…

A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ues differently. Thomas Aquinas put it simply: “Human actions are right or wrong according to the circumstances.” If the circumstances are different, your moral judgment can be different. And the circumstances of all the cases Steinfels hauls out from his store of non sequiturs are really and crucially different. A judgment on one does not lock you into the same judgment on the others. He is, however, right in calling for more cases where abortion…

Are Churches Making Americans More Racist?

By Kristopher Norris

…ility author Robin DiAngelo observes, the more one believes that racism is wrong, the less likely one is to acknowledge their own complicity in it, and the more defensive one becomes when confronted with it. Even progressive whites who know deeply that racism exists beyond a few bad apples—that it’s a system, an invisible institution that lurks beyond and within our policies and programs, limiting opportunities for minority communities, constructi…