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The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…are two clauses that protect religious liberty in the First Amendment: the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause. During the same period in which the courts have lowered the bar for protecting the free-exercise principle, they’ve also cut back significantly on protections for the flipside of the coin, the anti-establishment principle. The combined trends, say many advocates, endanger the lofty constitutional pedestal on which religious…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…nancial burden on a group of religious persons was neither required by the free exercise clause nor prohibited by the establishment clause.” She suggested that there are a variety of ways in which Congress could constitutionally support ministers’ housing needs: by creating an exemption for all taxpayers whose nonprofit employers require them to live near work, for instance. But an exemption available to some religious employees, and no one else,…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ical Fellowship of Honduras asked the Congress to reject any initiative to promote marriage between same-sex couples… The Evangelical Fellowship rejects the proposal that emerges from the Lesbian and Gay Community… Pastors declared that they were not acting according to a whim or with fundamentalist mentality, but based on the Scriptures. The Bible lays down the principles of how to manage sexuality, which is a responsibility that human beings hav…

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…is being eroded, eclipsed, liquidated” in the U.S. and urging Americans to use the freedom “bequeathed by your Founding Fathers, lest you lose it.” “Do we not see signs of this insidious war in this great nation of the United States?” Sarah asked. “In the name of ‘tolerance,’ the Church’s teachings on marriage, sexuality, and the human person are dismantled. The legalization of same-sex marriage, the obligation to accept contraception within healt…

The Shari’ah Spring: Media Gets It Backwards

By Haroon Moghul

…ely discredited many Muslim thinkers and movements and has served as an excuse for authoritarian governments to refuse elections. There is of course genuine Muslim opposition to Iranian Islamist authoritarianism, found most obviously in Iran itself: the Green Movement, led by clerics, among others. But they also do so because they cannot impose their will on their societies, a lesson that’s been learned after the failure of the Iranian model—espec…

Muslim Mickey Mouse Tweet as Egyptian Wedge Issue

By Joseph Hammond

…ng a complaint against Morsy with the Egyptian prosecutor general. The Free Egyptians Party (FEP), founded by Sawiris is the most credible liberal party in Egypt’s upcoming general elections. At Wednesday’s official launch of the party, the FEP came out swinging at the Muslim Brotherhood’s new FJP, accusing its rival of “political fraud.” On Friday, fresh protests across Egypt showed that many Egyptians continue to seek expedited prosecutions…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s and alienate local conservative groups. Chile: Civil Union Bill Passes House Human Rights Watch reports on the advance of civil union legislation: Chile’s House of Representatives approved a “civil union” bill this week granting legal rights to same-sex couples. The bill creates the Pacto de Unión Civil (PUC), a new legal status for couples that live together in committed relationships, regardless of gender. Despite stiff opposition from religio…

But Are They “The Good Muslims”?

By Haroon Moghul

…utes. What Kinds of Salafis Can We Live With? But the reason we talk about Egypt’s Salafis isn’t because we’re debating theology, at least not primarily—I don’t think we’re actually concerned with the specifics of Islamic thought. We’re more worried about what Salafism and Islamism generally means for our interests, values, and the Muslim world. At bottom, our concerns over Salafis are concerns over what they’ll do when they’re in power. So we tr…

Where In The World Is Barack Hussein Obama?

By Haroon Moghul

…ance of his speech was heartening; the line that received the loudest applause was about democracy. Some two years later, Egyptians of all ages, creeds and kinds came out in force to demand Mubarak’s ouster and a country that respected them. The subsequent years were difficult, but they indicated, to me, a very slow progress towards an organic democracy. Because unlike Libya, and Syria, and Iran—and unlike America, France and Russia—Egypt’s revolu…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e point he used to talk to the emir: ‘I cannot get along with the West because they want [me] to promote homosexuality,’” she said. Gambia’s Foreign Minister Bala Garba Jahumpa went on television last week in a prime-time address to say the country would refuse to negotiate with the European Union over its anti-gay laws, regardless of how much foreign aid might be in question. According to Pink News, he “attacked homosexuality as ‘Satanic’ ungodly…