Search for "VIPREG2024 1xbet free bet promo code 2024 East Timor"

NC’s Gay Marriage Ban: “It’s Going to Hurt the Church”

By Nicole Greenfield

…hing of a “toxic and counterfeit gay-affirming gospel” to being injured by the church as a child. “In some ways he’s right,” Bakker told me in response. “It’s called empathy.” He continued: “Every time someone accuses me of cheap grace, I go back and say no, it’s free grace. Grace is free. The reason I understand the Bible the way I do is probably because I interpret through the pain that I’ve been through. But it’s not me compromising. I know wha…

The Roberts Court’s “Special Solicitude” for Corporations

By Sarah Posner

…Smith jurisprudence,” she wrote. RFRA didn’t expand the scope of religious freedom rights, and in the case law there is “no support for the notion that free exercise rights pertain to for-profit corporations.” There’s a reason for that, Ginsburg maintained. While the Constitution and the courts have long recognized a “special solicitude” for religious organizations, there is no such solicitude for commercial entities. The reason for that is “hardl…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…with cyberspace integrated the spirit of American exceptionalism, faith in free markets, and a view of computer networks as nature’s next evolutionary leap. Together they enacted the game-changing Telecommunications Act of 1996, which laid the foundations for the industry giants of subsequent decades. On Tailspins and Technical Leaps of Faith The celebratory entrance of technical and political elites into the so-called New Economy constituted a le…

Obama Inaugural Address Challenges Tea Party History

By Julie Ingersoll

…the Republic included “as he died to make men holy let us die to make men free,” when the more common version these days calls on us to “live to make men free.” Yet even with regard to the way military force has been central to what it means to be American, the president presented a new narrative, asserting that “peace and lasting security do not mean we are in a state of perpetual war.” One of the most important ways in which the tea party and…

Bloody Religious Conflict on the Way Out?

By Ira Chernus

…ecessary for morality? Is religion important in your life? Do you pray at least once a day? In an RDBlog post previewing the Atlantic issue, Gabriel McKee has already cautioned that this is a crude way to measure of religiosity. But even supposing that it is a generally useful predictor, it measures mainly private religiosity. The second and third questions deal only with the role of religion in the individual’s personal life. And it’s easy enough…

Channeling T.S. Eliot, Ross Douthat Fears The Loss of Taboo

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…eals it is purely disgusting. Eliot too believed that there are no (or at least few) limits of decency that can’t easily be transgressed; taboos have been swept out of the corners of modern society. And he implicitly pleaded to reinstate some. What is significant here is the comparable rhetoric that condemns a culture for having too few taboos to violate. The imagined vision of a limitless, transgression-proof culture produces reactions that quick…

Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…om which—I will risk this seeming blasphemy—it would not be well for it to free itself completely: and that is the cult of the human being, of the human body, mind and flesh, feeling and will, instinct and conscience. Sometimes flesh, feeling and instinct have the upper hand, and sometimes mind, will and conscience, for these are the two despots who strive for primacy within us, and whose conflict often rends us cruelly. We have to attain a balanc…

Undercover Bosses as Minor Divinities: What Ever Happened to ‘Take this Job and Shove It’?

By Peter Laarman

…mocracy sweeps away the remnants of the old bowing and scraping among most free white males; 5. There ensues a long contest for workers’ loyalty, and a great many employers try to remain “union free” by adopting the role of benevolent dictators (Henry Ford, but also many others); 6. American working people achieve real emancipation through enactment of the 1935 Wagner Act, and the rate of unionization soars, remaining relatively high right through…

Show Me the Way of the Hebrews: The Making of an African American Rabbi

By J. Lester Feder

…this New Testament nonsense—we’re not doing that no more,’” he remembers. Bethel voted to break from the House of God, though about a third of the congregation left Bethel, choosing Jesus over Mother. This included her son George, who remains a House of God bishop to this day. Once Mother Dailey made this leap, she was neither gentle nor quiet. “This ain’t no milk and no eggs,” she warned during a sermon broadcast on the radio. “This is meat! You…

Is Accreditation of Religious Institutions a “Farce”?

By Eric C. Miller

…oard of overstepping the First Amendment and infringing on their rights to free religious exercise and free speech.” Among the colleges and seminaries that spurn regional accreditation, many justify their decision by citing freedom from governmental oversight, a position compatible with the conservative mentality often dominant at such institutions. Ideologically consistent, this claim has the ancillary benefit of helping its makers dodge the cost…