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Salvation, Purity, and Right Wing Activism: A Sampling of What Taxpayers Will Be Forced to Support as a Result of Carson v. Makin SCOTUS Ruling

By Chrissy Stroop

…watch “documentaries” about young earth creationism and “flood geology” in class. For a class to qualify as part of the AP program requires use of a standard introductory college textbook, but he refused to teach us the evolution chapters, telling us to read them on our own and regurgitate them for the exam. Apparently lying for Jesus is okay when you’re on the elite culture warrior track. Lesson learned. Teachers beginning class with prayer and d…

Health Care Post-Mortem: Left is Right, Right is Left and Public is Loser

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…creates and multiplies our desire for more of it. Health care, if it is a business, is a business that generates its own market, generates its own needs. And here, I think, is where religion enters the fray. There is a story to be told about how modern technology (if not modern science itself) has gradually encroached upon fields once reserved for religion. We might do well to start with birthing and dying. Midwifery was the way of the world unti…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…r relationships for a new corporate environment and in sanctifying working-class consumer capitalism—help explain the connections between conservative politics, the market economy and family values. But Sam Walton also had a major role in spreading the gospel of Christian free enterprise, an amalgam that linked religious principles, government support, and entrepreneurship. Even as business was becoming the default major on campuses, Walton and hi…

TN Conservatives: Government Butt Out… Government Butt In

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…inst doing business with Metro government. “If I am a sole proprietor of a business, who I hire is not the government’s business,” he said. “How would I know if someone is gay unless they made an issue of it?” Rev. Davis is basically asking for a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays and lesbians in the workplace, and we’ve seen how this kind of government policy has worked with the military. There are plenty of problems with this. First, as some…

When Churches Do Business

By Sarah Posner

…reasons like you can’t make a synagogue hire an Episcopalian minister. But businesses are not exempt. Here, the question is whether churches, when they’re doing not-churchy things like selling real estate, are acting like a church or a business. Moreover, merely selling property to a buyer who might use it for same-sex weddings seems far too attentuated to appear to be an endorsement or participation in said weddings. You could say it’s more atten…

Jesus Was Single

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y through the courts, a new issue will have emerged: that the state has no business in the marriage business, period. Once upon a time, some states did indeed have a vested interest in legitimating and normalizing marriage. This social institution created lines of legitimacy, lines that were crucial for establishing lines of inheritance and what have you. But we have other ways of handling these matters now. Religious communities can decide freely…

Church and State in Japan: The Case of the Yasukuni Shrine

By Mark R. Mullins

…deceased or the bereaved families. In other words, Yasukuni is engaged in “business as usual,” and “usual” here means according to the norms established in the prewar period. The “will of the Emperor,” according to priestly interpretation at the Yasukuni Shrine, still trumps individual choice and family religious tradition. Much to the dismay of many Yasukuni supporters, however, it was recently revealed that even Emperor Hirohito was not pleased…

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…pitting poor whites against black freedmen to divide the Southern working class in order to avoid the development of a unified, robust labor movement in the South after the Civil War. Today, the powers that be continue to utilize a divide-and-conquer strategy to keep the poor divided along color lines and other lines of division. The original Poor People’s Campaign was King’s solution for building the unity of the poor as a class as a prerequisit…

Marianne Williamson and Me

By Diane Winston

…alifornia’s 33rd District Congressional seat. Williamson’s visit to my USC class on American spirituality was a boon for me, but it also served her purposes. District 33 cuts through some of the state’s wealthiest communities including Malibu, Beverly Hills and Palos Verdes, and Williamson would be speaking here to potential voters if not volunteers. Meanwhile, I’d have a 21st century incarnation of the 19th century New Thought and Theosophy teach…

Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…ves.” Cut to a montage of four decades’ worth of flashbacks. Serious Moral Business Within this context of attention to the past, programs devote intense energy to the day-to-day business of intense moral dilemmas, egregious moral violations, and agonizing moral questions. Personal morality, rather than social justice, has always been the domain of the soap. Those who watch soap operas regularly will not hesitate to tell you that the shows have in…