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Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time

By Katherine Stewart

…he free exercise of religion—because speech and religion are not the same thing. I think the Founders were right. The basic principle that the free exercise of religion requires that government should refrain as much as possible from getting involved in ecclesiastical decisions is surely sound. For the same reason, on the other hand, we must stop pretending that religious groups should be treated the same as all other groups on matters that have n…

Speaking with Palestinian-American Republican Who Confronted GOP at Debate

By Haroon Moghul

…Hassan put it, “neither candidate sufficiently answered my question.” They hid behind “history… molded to work for a TV script”—a nice touch. Romney proceeded to identify Palestinians with Hamas, as if that Islamist movement is homogenous, and fully representative of Palestinian views. But Hassan identified himself as a Palestinian American—and incidentally, he’s also a Christian. Gingrich proceeded back to that thing he calls history, telling the…

Catholic Church is Lucky it’s Just Same-Sex Marriage

By Marian Ronan

…m competition because tests revealed that they were genetically male, something about which they themselves hadn’t a clue. Then there was Suzanne Kessler’s groundbreaking article in the feminist journal Signs about intersexed and ambiguously-sexed infants and the extraordinary efforts of doctors to hide these problems by correcting them in all possible haste, even if they weren’t clear which gender ought to be assigned. Since then, we have bec…

New Pope Accused of Conspiring in Kidnapping

By Nicole Greenfield

…condemned to death,” Bergoglio noted disapprovingly in a 2007 speech. Meanwhile, an astounding number of women in Argentina, women without access to or education about contraception, die annually as victims of botched abortion procedures carried out in secret. If we do dig a little deeper into Bergoglio’s past, we find that he was accused of participating in one of the numerous human rights violations committed during Argentina’s Dirty War (which…

Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy: Choosing Religion Over Sex

By Lynne Gerber

…is not a disease, and orientation change is highly unlikely. Overlooking this history makes it easy to depict this controversy as a simple disagreement and to be surprised by an outpouring from people who remember all too clearly the stakes of this debates in terms of gay politics and of human lives. But the politics did not stop in 1973 and the political gains achieved at that time are by no means secure. Since declassification, supporters of re…

How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…eprints and the new additions—also invites a consideration of the ways in which this body of work might have ill prepared us for this moment. In fact, the sense of surprise that continues to confront evangelical zealotry for Trump might be Noll, Marsden, and Bebbington’s greatest legacy, because the absence of discussions about race, gender, or nationalism in the collection’s reprints is made all the more glaring by their abundance in the book’s n…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…ender. This and similar figures regarding feelings about same-sex relationships—for which there is very little difference between those who are parents and those who aren’t—could be useful for fighting against the well-organized efforts of minority control over school libraries and curricula that right-wingers are waging across the country. On the other hand, it’s concerning that only 41% of Americans would be somewhat or very comfortable learning…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…ica’s or Kenya’s richest farmland ended up in white hands because of the “white work ethic” or that Reconstruction’s Black farms found today in white pockets got there fair and square. They will believe that the reason Harriett Tubman’s image will not appear on U.S. currency as planned is that the current administration has concerns about counterfeiting. Or that a president who bought an ad calling for the murder of exonerated Black youth and who,…

LDS General Conference in the “Mormon Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…“sanctification,” to use the theological term) centered in LDS temple worship, and a history of distinctive social practices. But that innovation should not obscure the fact that a belief in Jesus Christ as savior is at the core of Mormon worship. Every Sunday, we take a bread-and-water sacrament in remembrance of Christ. Baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ is the gateway ordinance for membership in the Church. Yet when I have assert…

Neuroscience Says Evil is “Over”: Not So Fast…

By Paul Wallace

…er, who insist that what science says is obvious. But they’re selling something, something like atheism or creationism or some other extra-scientific bill of goods. The real question is twofold: “What do scientists say, when they are handed a microphone and placed on a lighted stage in the public square? And how does that compare with what one might find in the scientific journals?” This question may be more difficult than the first, but it’s more…