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Health Care Ruling Big Issue for Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…e constitutional provision used to challenge the mandate. Now the American Center for Law and Justice, the legal group headed by Supreme Court litigator Jay Sekulow, is drumming up support for its amicus brief in the Michigan case, which is headed to the Court of Appeals, via an online petition for its “Committee to Declare Pro-Abortion ObamaCare Unconstitutional.” If anti-choice groups can’t succeed in challenging the law in court, at least on th…

Pray-In On Capitol Hill for DREAM Act

By Sarah Posner

…ism, said in a statement: Time is running out for the Senate to act on the American DREAM Act. Time is running out to extend the American dream to young people who were brought to America as undocumented immigrant children, and who have since grown up, stayed in school, and been law-abiding contributors to our communities. This long overdue legislation is a just response to the needs of young adults who wish to continue to make a positive contribu…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…Dr. William Barber II, beginning when he keynoted the launch of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice in November 2013. It has been a fruitful partnership in all respects. In his new book, Rev. Barber reminds us of the importance of education and history in the long struggle for justice and righteousness. Referring to how those in power kept the poor divided in history, he speaks about how both enslaved persons and poor white…

Podcast: Trump, Carson, and Evangelicals in the Presidential Campaign

By Sarah Posner

…This week I was a guest on the Center for Inquiry podcast “Point of Inquiry” to discuss, among other things, Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s appeal to evangelical Republican voters, and how Trump is trying to undercut Carson’s support with these voters now that he has slipped in the polls. Give it a listen:…

Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…ivists from the country. Freethought Under Attack My own organization, the Center for Inquiry, has worked with threatened individuals in Bangladesh since April 2013. Our work started when Avijit Roy emailed me to ask for support in responding to the Bangladesh government’s arrest of four bloggers who were critical of religion. We quickly organized worldwide protests, letters, campaigns, and political pressure that led to their release. Roy also co…

Peter King, Visit My Class

By Hussein Rashid

…Homeland Security issued a report entitled “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim American Communities,” which argues based on sociological evidence that mosques are actually important sites for moderating religious extremism, and that most people who become radicalized are divorced from any religious community. In the last week, the Muslim and American Public Opinion Survey, a project hosted by The University of Washington, Institute for the Study of E…

University of Kentucky Settles With Evolution-Denying Astronomer

By Lauri Lebo

…asis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The Christian right American Center for Law and Justice, which represented Gaskell, has a news release on the settlement here. The entire settlement, in which the university admits no wrongdoing, is here. In a statement released by UK counsel, the agreement was in order to avoid a lengthy trial. A trial had been scheduled for February after U.S. Senior District Judge Karl S. Forester of the Ea…

Muslims Lie, and Other Myths

By Hussein Rashid

…animosity, the Religious Freedom Education Project at the First Amendment Center along with the Interfaith Alliance released a frequently asked questions document entitled “What is The Truth about American Muslims? Questions and Answers,” co-authored by Dr. Charles Haynes of the Religious Freedom Education Project, Wajahat Ali, and myself. The idea has been in development for nine months, as Muslims came under more scrutiny, and after Islamophobi…

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…anti-LGBT stances. Designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Family Research Council has gained increasing political clout since Perkins took the helm in 2003. A former Louisiana state senator himself, Perkins has worked to ingratiate himself with holders of the nation’s highest office since the Reagan years. Perkins made a reported 14 visits to the White House during George W. Bush’s first term and was an integral lobbyi…

Michele Bachmann Launches Constitutional Fundamentalist Seminars

By Julie Ingersoll

…out a distinctive space in the religious right. He is lead council for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Pat Robertson’s “alternative” to the ACLU which is described on its website as: pro-life and dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, God-given rights for all people. The ACLJ engages legal, legislative, and cultural issues by implementing an effective strategy of advocacy, education, an…