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“Religious Liberty” Catholics Reap What They Sow in Trump

By Patricia Miller

…both Catholic and evangelical—refused to attend the gathering and told the Washington Post that anyone who publicly embraced Trump would be disgraced: For those of us who believe in limited government, the rule of law, flourishing institutions of civil society and traditional Judeo-Christian moral principles, and who believe that our leaders must be persons of integrity and good character, this election is presenting a horrible choice. May God hel…

The Complicity of #NeverTrump Evangelicals in a Demagogue’s Rise

By Neil J. Young

…more resistant in the wake of his victory. In a bruising editorial in the Washington Post last week, George W. Bush’s former speechwriter Michael Gerson argued evangelicals “must not bear the mark of Trump.” Gerson outlined Trump’s spotty personal life and unsavory character, but also his fueling of ethnic tensions, his proposed discrimination of a religious group, and his perverse and even “highly sexualized view of power as dominance” as reason…

Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…nfirmed that he had a short temper and was prone to violence. She told the Washington Post that he used to beat her, and was “mentally unstable.” On the other hand, the Amaq Agency, the news outlet of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, stated that the shooting “was carried out by an Islamic State fighter.” Omar himself called 911 shortly after entering the bar in Orlando saying that he had pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al Ba…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…African Anglican Church because she married another woman in December. The Washington Post’s Max Bearak reports: South Africa’s Anglican church, where Tutu-Van Furth until recently practiced as a priest, isn’t ready to accept those with alternative sexualities as members of its clergy. Tutu-Van Furth was ordained at the Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., and since the Episcopal Church, the U.S.-based branch of the Anglican Communion, accep…

Did Richard Dawkins Hand Creationists Their Next School Strategy?

By Adam Shapiro

…Institute Senior Fellow David DeWolf has just announced his candidacy for Washington State’s Supreme Court. *This post originally stated “Luskin argues not just that atheists have found evolution to be useful, but that evolution in itself is inherently anti-religious.” While Luskin does argue that many Americans have grounds to associate evolution with “anti-religious activities and rhetoric,” he does not state that evolution is inherently anti-r…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…eartily embraced by a significant cohort of “Social Gospel” leaders (e.g., Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and George D. Herron) who were appalled by what they regarded as the blasphemous identification of most other church leaders with the capitalist cause (e.g. Henry Ward Beecher, who blithely reassured his Brooklyn congregation that “God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little…”). In its depth and breadth, the p…

Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ims in the document, would be necessary to “grow America’s economy, starve Washington’s economy, and stop Socialism.” Scott’s plan, however, should not be ridiculed. Because, while stunning in its garish, at times incoherent, and paranoid crusade against everything and anyone that could threaten white, patriarchal, conservative Christian hegemony—be it cultural or political—it also provides a valuable insight into the current mindset of the GOP. W…

If Kirill’s Bizarre Sermon Blaming War on Pride Parades Comes as a Surprise, it’s Time to Learn the History

By Katherine Kelaidis

…Western power and culture moving from Rome to Madrid to Paris to London to Washington. It is, however, a view of history, not shared by everyone. As we painfully found out in the early part of this century, different civilizations have different narratives of the past. Failure to understand the Islamic view of history was a grave fault of the Western powers. Today the same could be said of the Orthodox view of history. For example, if you’ve never…

Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion

By Michael Schulson

…. In Out of Eden Barash, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Washington, argues that human beings evolved in polygamous communities. Sometimes this multi-partnering was out in the open. Other times, it happened on the sly. Either way, Barash aims to explain “the often-hidden consequences of our inherited polygamous inclinations.” In his telling, these consequences include certain basic differences between men and women. They could al…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…work with us. In the U.S., just before the WCF meeting, the Christian Broadcasting Network ran a story titled “Western Invasion: Inside Georgia’s Battle Against the Gay Agenda,” in which televangelist and CBN founder Pat Robertson complained that “the fact that the European Union and the U.S. is trying to impose this lifestyle on a little country like Georgia that wants to stay Orthodox is incredible.” This portrayal of the EU as a cultural bully…