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Religious Freedom Battle Is Far From Over: Here’s What to Look for in 2019

By Patrick Hornbeck

…’s clear that this issue is here to stay. The year that just ended saw the opening of new fronts in the legal battles over religious freedom. In 2018, the Supreme Court dodged one of the toughest issues—what to do when granting one party a religious exemption legitimizes discrimination against someone else. But as the year came to an end, the religious left began to leverage strategies that until now have largely been monopolized by the right. In…

Will Infamous ‘Candy Cane Memo’ Resurrect Flailing ‘War on Christmas’?

By Joseph Laycock

…delines, it frames the issue primarily in terms of comfort. (Words like “uncomfortable,” “comfort,” and “discomfort” appear four times.) A pernicious myth about the separation of church and state is that such practices as mandatory prayer in schools ended not because the courts found they violated the establishment clause, but because certain people complained that these practices made them “uncomfortable.” This myth obscures the constitutional pr…

So You Think You Can Dance, Or At Least Lead A Populist Moral Movement

By Daniel Schultz

…to satisfy me on the religious left. In answer, I have a rather simple, two-part test for the effectiveness of a political movement: Can it attract coordinated national participation that is broad-based and involves people beyond those pre-disposed to support it? Can it be effective in partisan politics? That is to say, can it help enact legislation, change policy, or elect or defeat elected officials? Jack Jenkins of ThinkProgress and I have a fr…

The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…am. Racism is banal, seeping through the ground of the country, changing oh-too-slowly. 2) Lady Bird As critics have all noted, Lady Bird is a coming of age story. But it’s coming of age in the modern world without adequate rites of passage, just some ill-formed college visits, passing a driver’s license test, a few joints smoked, and awkward sexual awakenings. If any passage is marked, it’s Christine’s re-naming herself as “Lady Bird.” Barely p…

Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…igious liberty” playbook, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a 38-page complaint contending that Trump’s travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority nations was “motivated by animus toward Muslims and expressly discriminates on the basis of national origin,” violating core constitutional principles—and, crucially, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The federal lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by the ACLU in conjunction with the International…

Jeffress is Both Right and Wrong on Religion & Politics

By Peter Montgomery

…oing so. Furthermore, it is perfectly possible to be an ardent defender of free speech and to believe that it is not good for our country to have political campaigns revolve around which candidate’s faith is more sincere, or for policy debates to turn into battles over competing interpretations of scripture. I will be the first to acknowledge that there is plenty of room for honest disagreement about where to draw the lines between what does and d…

Does The Supreme Court’s Religious Composition Matter?

By Sarah Posner

…shouldn’t matter, and there most certainly shouldn’t be a religious litmus test of any kind (including a litmus test for religious belief or affiliation), I was curious enough to take a look at this handy guide to the religion of Supreme Court justices. You have to go back nearly 150 years to find the only justice — David Davis, a distant ancestor of George W. Bush — to find one with no religious affiliation at all, and all the others have, of cou…

Religious Right Claims Heterosexual Marriage is a Requirement for Statehood

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…level.” (Emphasis theirs.) This seems to be the new talking point for anti-marriage equality groups. Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link mentions it noting that: “The federal government settled the issue of marriage in the late 19th century when it refused to recognize polygamy as a condition of statehood.” National Organization for Marriage head Maggie Gallagher also makes mention saying: “The simple fact is that the right of the federal governme…

The Tea Party Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…e Tea Party wave is just an illusion. This victory was by—and for—the theo-free-marketeers who have long controlled the GOP in the service of a “Christian nation” that boasts pro-big business legislation and policy. With the GOP re-taking control of the House, and Mike Pence (another of those Tea Party-supporting Republicans who has always said, “I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order”) eyeing 2012, Minnesota’s Michele Ba…

Perry Endorser: Mormonism is a “Cult” (Updated)

By Sarah Posner

…tist Convention’s position as proof.) There is no constitutional religious test for president, Jeffress admitted, but voters can impose such a test themselves. He described Romney as a “fine family person” but that “a lot of good people can be misled.” Jeffress insisted that “only belief in Jesus Christ will get you to heaven,” and dismissed my question about whether he understood that Mormons did believe in Jesus Christ as their savior. “Mormons…