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Pope, Christian Conservatives Team Up to Promote Patriarchy

By Patricia Miller

…under Robert George, Alan Sears of the Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Manhattan Declaration’s Eric Teetsel. Francis opened the conference with an address on Monday that echoed the main gathering’s theme: that only families based on complementarity are an expression of God’s plan and that “children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.” Despite the anti-same-sex marriage tone, Francis did walk back some of JPII’s more…

Chuck Colson, Watergate Felon and Evangelical Leader, Dies at 80

By Anthea Butler

…ries suffered financially for a time. Later in 2009, Colson would sign the Manhattan Declaration, another Evangelical-Catholic manifesto against abortion and gay marriage. For Evangelicals, Colson represents the epitome of the salvation story: an evil man made good, turning to Christ and ministering to the incarcerated. Colson’s legacy is much more complicated. David Sessions wrote in The Daily Beast about how Colson helped to popularize the conce…

George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook

By Patricia Miller

…his isn’t surprising coming from Weigel, who was one of the signers of the Manhattan Declaration calling for a muscular conservative Christian presence in public policy and lawmaking. It was Weigel who coined the phrase “Evangelical Catholic,” which he defines as “a counterculture that seeks to convert the ambient public culture by proclaiming certain truths”—such as the absolute immorality of abortion or the right to discriminate under the cover…

An Abbreviated Guide to 5 Arguments Against Contraceptive Coverage in Obamacare

By Sarah Posner

…-two briefs have been filed supporting the government’s position, although numbers certainly should not be taken as an indicator of the strength of either argument or a predictor of the ultimate outcome. A law or regulation violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), if it imposes a “substantial burden” on a person’s religious exercise, unless it furthers a compelling government interest, and it is the least restrictive way of furtherin…

How Will Religious Conservatives Follow Through on Marriage Bluster?

By Peter Montgomery

…same-sex couples. A statement written by Liberty Counsel attracted a large number of signatures of right-wing religious leaders. It asserted, “The Supreme Court has no authority to redefine marriage.” It sounded a tone of resistance: “As Christians united together in defense of marriage, we pray that this will not happen. But, make no mistake about our resolve. While there are many things we can endure, redefining marriage is so fundamental to the…

Progressive Evangelical Attacks AARP, Social Security

By Peter Laarman

…oise machine, that’s his business. If he wants to be a hero to America’s young, however, he should consider taking his name off the loathsome Manhattan Declaration. But that’s a story for another day….

God is My Co-Belligerent: Avatar Priests, Hijacked Theologians, and Other Figures of Right-Wing Revolt

By Frederick Clarkson

…irectors of the premier US conservative Catholic/evangelical alliance, The Manhattan Declaration. As an up-and-coming evangelical leader, he has also been busy denouncing proposed federal regulations on contraception coverage in employer insurance packages. But he is unique in employing his status as a Bonhoeffer scholar to claim parallels between the regulations and early Nazi-era legislation, as he did, for example, in an appearance on MSNBC. T…

Yerushalmi, National Review, and a Conservative Fight Over Shari’ah

By Sarah Posner

…to view their neighbors with suspicion and distrust.” He is hopelessly outnumbered at National Review, where most of the writers and commenters weighing in are confused at Schmitz’ inability to perceive Muslim Americans as the collective Fifth Column everyone understands them to be. No one, however, is more outraged at Schmitz’ suggestion that anti-Muslim prejudice might be at work in the Shariah-panic industry than Yerushalmi, who writes, “To e…

Cues for Throwing Up

By Sarah Posner

…reverse peristalsis. Hence the new ecumenism found in manifestos like the Manhattan Declaration, which appears as a blueprint for the “religious freedom” wars, and in the opposition to the HHS contraception benefit requirement, and in opposition to the jurisprudentially accepted understanding of the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses. Chaput has made his views clear in other venues. In 2004, he suggested that because abortion was a “foundati…

Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance

By Sarah Posner

…nd evangelicals together in the “religious freedom” cause through the 2009 Manhattan Declaration, which is very much a roadmap for the opposition to the HHS contraception benefit requirement. (“Among other things,” Pierce wrote, “George regularly compares the abortion pill RU-486 to the Zyklon B gas used by the Nazis in concentration camps during World War II,” an apparent prelude to today’s discourse.) Pierce notes that Deal Hudson, who helped th…