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Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?

By Eric C. Miller

…ill exhibited divisions and disagreements along religious lines through the 1980s and 1990s. The Catholic Church had organized a pro-life movement since the 1960s, responding to the liberalization of abortion laws at the state level. But in general, it wasn’t until Roe v. Wade that Mormons or evangelicals thought much about abortion. Mormon teaching denounced abortion, but still made exceptions for particular cases like rape or the health of the m…

The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?

By Haroon Moghul

…sy for us to be outraged. But when a writer is punished by a government we support, perhaps because that support advances our national security interests, we have rather less to say. Only recently, The New York Times extensively reported on the abuse, torture, solitary confinement, and even executions that await critics of Egypt’s dictatorship, a longstanding US ally. Islamists, secularists, socialists. It didn’t and doesn’t matter. Their crimes w…

Is Cardinal Dolan’s Pro-Life Piece More Evidence of Pro-Catholic Bias from RNS Publisher?

By Evan Derkacz

…Rev. Reese’s assertion that opinion in the United States is moving toward support for reproductive rights, does not support the cardinal’s objections. Instead, even accepting its arbitrary delineations, it actually shows that the percentage of respondents who “want significant restrictions on abortion” is the second lowest of the 13 such polls over the past decade. Dolan repeats the misleading line that contraception “can be medically harmful to…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…Obama’s support for marriage equality would cost him the election and the support of the black church. It did neither, as Sarah Posner predicted, notwithstanding efforts by NOM and anti-equality activists like Harry Jackson and others to use marriage as a racially tinged wedge issue. Look for more Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals to be emboldened to publicly support equality, diversifying the increasingly vibrant religious coalitions that wi…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…sionate emotions (especially fear) than reason, grace, and the serenity of spiritually-centered love. By the late medieval era, the connection between misogyny and homophobia in an increasingly patriarchal western Christianity is explicit. While, like Augustine, acknowledging the existence of “hermaphrodites” (intersex people), 12th-century theologian Peter Cantor explained that “the church allows a hermaphrodite—that is, someone with the organs o…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…ico reported in 2023, he was an influential voice among those reluctant to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. Colby and his Allies frame themselves as “conservative realists,” which he’s trying to sell as the “middle way” between isolationism and interventionism. Battle against the “totalitarian” “group quota regime” A contrast to Colby in both style and method Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute, confirmed that the Calif…

A Test for Trump—And the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…and the meaning of the Bible in public life. If conservative evangelicals support Trump, they are supporting a candidate who quite obviously doesn’t share the priorities they have long claimed are central to their religious and political identity. It’s been pretty clear from Trump’s behavior that he doesn’t understand this world very well. He’s appeared on David Brody’s segment on the Christian Broadcasting Network, but even there can’t seem to s…

The Best the Largest Progressive Jewish Org Could Come Up With?

By Jay Michaelson

…d Jewish Funds for Justice, the latter of which had already swallowed up a number of smaller Jewish social justice organizations. I know several people who work at BtA, and I commend them on their ability to keep a secret. I and friends of mine plied several of these folks with drinks, but their lips stayed sealed. (I did find out that the org would have an action-verb in it, as is the fashion these days, but that’s all.) That being said, I’m not…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…atirizing religious rituals and sanctities and prophets” under articles 98, 160, and 161 of the Egyptian Penal Code. According to Egypt News Daily, the prosecution first sought to charge him in connection with disseminating Innocence of Muslims but when this accusation was proven false, they revised their strategy to target the content of Saber’s video blog. Though sentenced to three years and released on bail he was subsequently locked up due to…

What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe? Easter Reflections from a Non-Christian

By Gary Laderman

…hip hop are the devil’s music with no redeeming features. But the growing number of artists and outlets for Christian rap (like the Web site Holy Culture) are challenging many stereotypes and perceptions about how entertainment and evangelization mix to bring a distinctly Christian message to young folks today. And in the recent efforts by conservative Christians to shape the content of educational textbooks in Texas, country and western music ha…