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Discrimination on the Taxpayer’s Dime? The Fight To Curtail the Overreach of RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…productive health services.” In 2009, the ACLU had sued HHS over the older policy, charging that the government violated the Establishment Clause when it allowed the Bishops to refuse to refer clients for contraception and abortion services. In 2012, a federal court ruled that such an exemption was an unconstitutional violation of the Establishment Clause because it allowed a religious organization to “impose religiously based restrictions on the…

Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption

By Chrissy Stroop

…ain access to public funding it had initially lost over its discriminatory policy in 2018. Subsequently, some other Bethany branches switched to LGBTQ-inclusive foster parent and adoption policies while others did not, resulting in a confusing patchwork that, as of early this year, has been replaced with a Bethany-wide policy of allowing same-sex couples to foster and adopt. At least as late as 2014, internal communications from Bethany executives…

‘Religious Freedom’: Constitutional Principle or Electoral Politics?

By Frances Kissling

…ous persons. And the Supreme Court has already determined that when public policy aimed at everyone conflicts with individual religious beliefs, public policy is the higher good. Justice Scalia in his majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith, 1990, noted: “We have never held that an individual’s religious beliefs excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate.” The CHA seems re…

Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…trated by the Muslim Brotherhood. At the conference, a Center for Security Policy employee handed out a flyer that described shari’ah as “a supremacist program that justifies the destruction of Christian churches and parishioners” and “the replacement of our constitutional republic. . . .with a theocratic Islamic caliphate governing according to shari’ah.” In its 2010 conspiratorial report, “Sharia: The Threat to America,” the Center for Security…

LDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children

By Holly Welker

…:9) was visited upon their children. Rallies were organized as soon as the policy was announced. Hundreds if not thousands of Latter-day Saints resigned their membership in protest. Increases in depression and suicide were attributed to it. The church looked callous and cruel. Thursday, at the leadership session of General Conference, the church abruptly rescinded the policy. A bizarre statement stressed that the “changes do not represent a shift…

Old Politics, New Bedfellows: The Olson/Boies Challenge to Prop. 8

By Jesse Lava

…no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Or, heck, that financial policy should be based on real-life numbers rather than the numbers that banks would like to pretend are real. We are at a point where it’s no longer clear that a large, vibrant conservative movement exists outside of policy areas that are supposed transcend conventional political divides. The constellation of interests that now define conservatism include being anti-scienc…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…tts of companies that fail to meet its standards of “decency,” Fischer (no policy wonk, despite being director of “Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy”) has taken the public rhetoric to a new, ugly level. According to former employees of the AFA, the views represented by Fischer are not only tolerated within the organization, but any opposition to its anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant invective—including reliance on white nativist…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…t of the religious right. The effect could be a further blending of public policy and doctrine-infused faith, where the milder social conservatism of moderate evangelicals is welcomed into an Obama government as part of a ‘big tent’ effort to accommodate believers.” “An Obama victory will give the religious right a highly visible target to attack for at least four years,” said Rob Boston, Senior Policy Analyst, Americans United for Separation of C…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…e classic culture-war debates. What would it mean to have a pro-family tax policy? What would it mean to have a pro-family health care policy?” ++++++++++ RD Tidbits Hein to Baylor: Jay Hein, who was deputy assistant to President George W. Bush and director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, has been hired by Baylor University as Distinguished Senior Fellow and director of the Program for Faith and Service at Baylor University…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…er-messaging initiative, Rogers suggests that, “the gap between US foreign policy in the Muslim world and its message of peace undermines any anti-violent extremism propaganda campaign.” She concludes: Anyone who goes online and says: “I don’t like beheading innocent civilians”—of course a lot of people are going to agree with you . . . I’m not 100 percent against these sorts of efforts, but I do think they are 99.9 percent worthless . . . I think…