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Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…” playbook, and in particular, that of Perry’s fellow Texan and Christians United for Israel founder John Hagee. At Perry’s prayer rally, The Response, in Houston last month, Hagee spoke and brought a sizable contingent of congregants from his San Antonio church. Perry has prayed at Hagee’s church, and agreed with him that non-Christians are doomed to hell. The appeasement accusation is as old as Neville Chamberlain, and deployed with frequency by…

Religious Leaders Pressure Congress To Support Religious Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…get money because so much of the federal funding is in the sponges of the United States Catholic Conference and World Vision.” Lynn added that “my fear is that this argument” — that without funding the poor would left high and dry — “is what’s making the administration nervous. They don’t like to hear it, but I think it’s simply a red herrring.” While under federal civil rights laws religious groups can legally discriminate in hiring if they are…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…trans-person and activist who was brutally murdered in Istanbul in August. United Kingdom: Marriage equality reaches inhabitants of Guernsey; Lord Mountbatten comes out The States of Guernsey approved marriage equality on Wednesday, which after similar votes in Jersey and the Isle of Man, leave Northern Ireland as the only jurisdiction in the British Isles without marriage equality, reports BuzzFeed’s Patrick Strudwick. Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a co…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…In an interview with the Washington Blade, outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said the struggle for LGBT human rights “has to be waged internationally and a very efficient way to touch a lot of countries in a concerted way and in an aggressive way is the United Nations.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a formal apology for discrimination against LGBT employees during the “Lavender Scare,” which included decades…

Christian Nationalists Aim to Dismantle this Core Freedom

By Andrew L. Seidel

…have been writing about Trump. Without the secular government our founders established, religious freedom, the foundational American value that we celebrate every January 16, cannot exist. There is no freedom of religion without a government that is free from religion. The United States realized the dream of genuine religious freedom because it embarked “upon a great and noble experiment . . . hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent—tha…

Conservatives Stoke Fear of Fifth Column

By Sarah Posner

…organizations were identified as unindicted co-conspirators in a case the United States brought against the Holy Land Foundation, which earlier this year was found guilty of illegally financing Hamas. In 2008, the government introduced a document as an exhibit to a brief — contrary to Department of Justice policy — publicly identifying these alleged “unindicted co-conspirators.” The policy is not to publicly identify unindicted co-conspirators be…

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

By Sarah Posner

…explain: George undermines his own credibility as a watchdog of religious freedom by going on to draw a comparison between Cain’s “loyalty proof” and opposition to “conscience” protections for health care workers who refuse, on religious grounds, to perform abortions, dispense birth control, or other procedures. He compares Cain’s statement to what he claims (inaccurately) was the statement of Democrat Martha Coakley when she was running her unsu…

Catholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?

By Frances Kissling

…ring to debate health care reform legislation. The Catholic bishops of the United States strongly support genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all, from the moment of conception until natural death. However, all current bills are seriously deficient on abortion and conscience rights, and do not yet provide adequate access to health care for immigrants and the poor. In your pews/bulletins today, you’ll find a special fli…

Does Religious Freedom Extend to Child Endangerment? It’s Not as Simple as It Seems

By Rebecca Moore

…r all,” and find that the current federal tax structure favors corporations and the wealthy. It’s not entirely clear, then, if we are rugged individualists or committed socialists. What does seem clear is that a number of First Amendment religious freedom cases aren’t really about religion, but rather about the nature of the society in which we live. And they reveal the fissures that run deeply throughout….

The Theology Behind Alabama Official’s Demand to Flout SCOTUS

By Sarah Posner

…a, insists he is biblically-bound to resist complying with an order of the United States Supreme Court. Again, Ingersoll explains, that’s a Calvinist idea that was rejuvenated with Christian Reconstructionism in the 1960s, and it became incorporated in homeschooling and used by followers “in ways they might not even recognize.” This ideology is embedded in Johnson’s letter, which scoffs at the prospect of court clerks resigning in protest, as one…