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Disingenuous Pleas for “Common Ground” on Religious Liberty Aren’t Likely to Find Any

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…and elevate the conversation,” says Gehring, Catholic program director for Washington-based nonprofit Faith in Public Life. But then, in a slippery Beltway appeal to the center, Gehring quickly adds: “If conservatives need to do some soul searching about how they often set back the important cause of religious liberty, progressives also need a better approach that fosters dialogue and common ground instead of division.” Yet Gehring offers just one…

Nearly Half of LGBT People Claim No Religion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y is no worse a sin than thievery or alcoholism? Honestly, I’m shocked the number of non-religious gays isn’t higher than 48% with all that religious “love” floating around. Of course, much can be said for the progress of LGBT acceptance, especially within those non-evangelical mainline churches. Lutherans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, the United Church of Christ, and Unitarians all welcome LGBT people not just in their pews, but in leadership ro…

By the Way: Revolting Evangelicals

By Randall Balmer

…of intimidation over the church,” Alliance attorney Erik Stanley told the Washington Post. “It is the job of the pastors of America to debate the proper role of church in society. It’s not for the government to mandate the role of church in society.” This argument, however, ignores a crucial point: Tax exemption amounts to public subsidy. The protection from taxation—corporate taxes, property taxes, sales taxes—represents, in fact, an extraordina…

Can Democrats Question Amy Coney Barrett’s Faith? Yes! Should They? Well…

By Daniel Schultz

…from former members, though these are difficult to pin down or verify. The last concern typically raised about Barrett is her use of the phrase “building the kingdom of God” in a commencement address to the Notre Dame Law School. RD’s Chrissy Stroop charges that “kingdom rhetoric has often been deployed to uphold discrimination, to say nothing of the hegemonic nature of Christianity in the United States,” which is certainly true. But I actually mo…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…or slight, suburbanite women, but also big burly men. 7. The “Yoga Tax” In Washington D. C., yoga was newly subjected to a tax. Though the tax has been popularly referred to as the “yoga tax,” the Office of Tax and Revenue’s extension actually applies to any health club business, defined as “a fitness club, fitness center, or gym the purpose of which is physical exercise.” As a part of a larger movement across the country opposing government regul…

Op-Ed: “Religion As A Wedge”: The Rick Warren Debacle

By Anthea Butler

…anyone, anyone else to pray? Because where our nation sits right now, the last thing we need is someone who can’t see the masses of people who have lost their purpose because of losing their jobs, homes, and livelihoods due to the right-wing ideologies of the past eight years. Our nation is crumbling literally before our eyes, and we can’t afford to have weak prayers made by sycophants to any deity at this point. I plan on watching the inaugurati…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

…tion, that argument became even stronger. On October 3, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine published a study with profound implications for policy making in the United States. According to Dr. Jeffery Peipert, the study’s lead author, abortion rates can be expected to decline significantly—perhaps up to 75 percent—when contraceptives are made available to women free of charge. Declaring himself “very surprised” at the resu…

Anti-Gay Group’s Attorney Fired after Searching for Men on Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…ing on relationships with young men. MetroWeekly, an LGBT news magazine in Washington, D.C., reported this week that ACLJ officials had confirmed that staff attorney James Henderson, a married father of eight, had been fired recently after a blog reported that he is gay. Henderson has also reportedly been an adjunct professor at Regent University. MetroWeekly notes that the ACLJ has scrubbed all traces of Henderson’s bio and writings from its webs…

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…ish interfaith families, such as the Interfaith Family Project in suburban Washington, DC or the Interfaith Family School in Chicago, IL. Within these broad parameters, individual interfaith families obviously make their own decisions, have their own practices and traditions, and are happy (or unhappy) about the compromises that they’ve made. Essentially, there is no model for what “everyone” does in interfaith family life, any more than there is…

Faith or Trauma: Questioning the Motivation of the Fort Hood Shooter

By Louise A. Cainkar

…ed a mosque, and had something in Arabic hanging on his door. A November 6 Washington Post headline reads, “Suspect, devout Muslim from Va., wanted Army discharge, aunt said.” This explanatory variant for the attacks leads one to his religion, not his experiences. It is difficult to discern whether Major Hasan’s religious faith has become the object of all this attention because it is assumed that deeply religious people don’t engage in killing, o…