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Religious Leaders Urge Obama to Allow Abortion Funding in Foreign Aid

By Frances Kissling

…ders including The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church and Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ. The Catholic community is represented by Sr. Jeanine Grammick who signed for the National Coalition of American Nuns. Serra Sippel, president of CHANGE, noted that “an executive order by the president that would allow US funds to be used in support of safe ab…

Federal Appeals Court Finds Wisconsin School’s Transphobic Policy Unconstitutional Days Before Plaintiff Graduates

By Sunnivie Brydum

…he case explained on a Tuesday press call organized by the Transgender Law Center, which represented Whitaker. “This decision is the first time a federal appeals court has found that Title IX, as a matter of statutory law, protects transgender students from discrimination in schools,” explained co-counsel Joseph Wardenski, who argued the case before the Seventh Circuit. “And we think that it sends a clear message to schools across the country that…

Anti-Gay Group’s Attorney Fired after Searching for Men on Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

The American Center for Law & Justice, created by Pat Robertson to be the religious right’s answer to the ACLU, is at the forefront of anti-gay legal work both in the U.S. and abroad as part of its broad socially conservative agenda. The group is led by Jay Sekulow, who has been Mitt Romney’s foremost champion among conservative evangelicals. So it’s not surprising that the ACLJ has moved quickly to distance itself from a longtime attorney who ha…

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…year’s Values Voter Summit, the progressive advocacy group People For the American Way called on Republican elected officials and candidates to condemn virulently anti-gay and anti-Muslim statements made by the American Family Association’s director of public policy, Bryan Fischer. Fischer, who hosts a daily radio show on AFA’s radio network of 180 stations, has, among other things, claimed that inbreeding causes Muslims to be stupid and violent;…

Radicalization and Religion, Cont’d.

By Julie Ingersoll

…hat is “really Catholic?” But of course, the important part of the Brennan Center report was not this complicated question of what counts as “authentic” religion but the fact that the current model for monitoring radicalization is overly simplified, too linear, and based on strategies countered by the social scientific data. It results in both the violation of religious freedom of American Muslims and undermines the proven strategies for combatin…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…human creatures, we are alone, hanging out occasionally with Kenyan Forest Service. There are false perceptions that ebola is in East Africa and that terrorism abounds, and the parks have emptied of the usual tourists and missionaries (tourists themselves, in the neocolonial sense). William and I pack up the tent for the night and we get up early, go for a morning drive, as is our usual custom (he grew up here). The morning breeze whipping by the…

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

By Sarah Posner

…ti-immigrant diatribe, but at his weak stances on their key issues. In the service of explaining what there is of an evangelical attraction to Trump (and, as I wrote earlier this week, it is there, although by no means a majority), Brody portrays Trump as a no-holds-barred honest broker and, therefore, victim of the media. That’s why, he says, evangelicals can relate. “Donald Trump operates in a world of absolutes,” Brody writes. “A world of right…

Irish Vote Reflects Diminished Moral Authority of Catholic Church

By Peter Montgomery

…through a national referendum. Trevor Gundy, writing for the Religion News Service just before the vote, had examined the decline of the Church’s power in Ireland. “Many Catholics wonder what right the Catholic Church has to oppose gay marriage when those charged with proclaiming and upholding Christian morality were abusing children.” After the vote, the Irish Sun said in an editorial, “Ireland officially emerged from the shadow of the Catholic C…

“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…upon which the faithful may project their lives. Common practice in church services, youth groups, camps, and conferences, the sharing of testimony is second nature to life-long evangelicals, and quickly becomes so for new additions to the fold. In almost every case, testimony is modeled on one of two patterns: the story of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, or the parable of the Prodigal Son. Either way, the stories depend on a three-part…

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

…bake a cake for a wedding that now cannot be legally barred in any state. Americans United’s Lynn predicted that one of these cases involving denial of services to same-sex weddings, based on a religious objection, will eventually reach the Supreme Court. Such a case would represent a collision of the effects of Hobby Lobby, which held that business owners have religious rights in the workplace, protected by the federal Religious Freedom Restorat…