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“Excruciatingly Different” Mississippi Religious Lib Law Specifies Beliefs

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…pi “religious liberty” law that will soon allow public officials to refuse service to same-sex couples and transgender individuals was hit with two legal challenges last week, one by the ACLU and the other by the Campaign for Southern Equality. Both suits argue the law, HB 1523, violates the constitutional protections laid down by the Supreme Court in last year’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which it clearly does. But it also brazenly violates t…

Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

By Patricia Miller

…offer any hint as to what magical means the Department of Health and Human Services will deploy to learn which plans aren’t offering contraceptive coverage and whom to contact to let them know their insurer will cover contraception anyway. It seems to envision some form of the “compromise” it suggested in its equally bizarre request for additional briefs after the initial hearing. Under this compromise, the plaintiffs would contract for a plan tha…

Women Are Leaving Church, And the Reason Seems Clear

By Patricia Miller

…1970s, 36 percent of women and 26 percent of men reported attending church services weekly, a ten-point gap that reflected the long-standing trend of women being more religiously committed than men. The gap reached its widest point in 1982, when it hit 13 percent, but then it began to shrink. By 2012, 22 percent of men reported attending church weekly, as did 28 percent of women, reflecting a “worship gap” of only six percent, an historic low. Pew…

Same-Sex Marriage May Lead to Polygamy, But So What?

By William E. Smith

…ery-slope argument against same-sex marriage and polygamy in Religion News Service. Having legalized the one, the other will surely follow. And that is bad—very, very bad according to Sprigg. His position rests on two separate lines of argumentation: the curtailment of freedom of religion and harm to children. Both are rather spurious. Sprigg is still trying to make the case that same-sex marriage is a social ill. It is a social ill that will lead…

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

…caterers, florists, and hotel owners, for example, who try to deny wedding services to same-sex couples on religious grounds. “There is nothing trivial,” said Lynn, “about the insult that refusal of service represents. It is a demoralizing, offensive, and bigoted assault to human dignity.” The religious objectors are not having success in administrative proceedings and the courts. Last week, the Oregon Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Indus…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…European Union and the U.S. is trying to impose this lifestyle on a little country like Georgia that wants to stay Orthodox is incredible.” This portrayal of the EU as a cultural bully is echoed by anti-LGBT advocates in Africa, including WCF’s Africa representative Theresa Okafor, who supports harsh anti-gay laws in African countries as necessary to protect the family against the “Trojan horse” of the sexual revolution. At last year’s WCF gatheri…

#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches: Is It Freedom Summer Again?

By Anthea Butler

…rs of 1995-1998, 670 churches burned, according to the Community Relations Service, and in 1996, the Church Arson Prevention Act was signed by then-President Clinton. In light of the shooting at Emanuel AME and the church burnings, the White House, FEMA and Homeland Security recently held a conference call to help clergy members protect their churches and acquaint them with various governmental resources that churches can use to be “at the ready”…

The Queerness of Christian Ethics: A Conversation with Rev. Elizabeth Edman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…worship is amazingly alive. People go to church and are there for hours on Sunday. Imagine what it would be if you could take the energy of an evangelical church experience or African American church experience, and marry that to the dynamism of the queer experience of that dance floor. It would be amazing. Many mainstream or evangelical churches may welcome you into the pew but never into leadership or other forms of service. You’re calling the c…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…are looking at the record of white liberals during the first half of this country’s 240-year official history. This was a time when enlightened white reformers—and religiously motivated reformers in particular—exercised actual power. But the use they made of that power comprises a dismaying narrative of faulty assumptions, mixed motivations, and a deep-seated, if unacknowledged, racism. This is the burden of English historian Nicholas Guyatt’s Bi…

Trump In Colorado: When the “Facts” Are No Longer Checkable

By Paul Harvey

…ter to all sorts of events, political and otherwise, as part of its public service and mission. And frankly, as an obscure branch campus of a state university, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Rather, the point was, of course Trump has the right to come here and speak, but we have the right to speak back. Various other political candidates–of both parties as well as minor parties–have spoken here in the past, with no such debate or strong f…