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Shari’ah (Panic) Threatens the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…ers legitimates the whole creeping, toxic American system of providing one class of legal protections for some but not others: special laws for children of immigrants, special laws for people who might look like immigrants, different jails for those who seem too dangerous, special laws for people worthy of wiretapping, and special laws for corporations. After today it will be easier than ever to use words and slogans to invent classes of people wh…

How Religion Shapes Sex Discrimination at Wal-Mart

By Joanna Brooks

…ening arguments before the Supreme Court in the landmark Dukes v. Wal-Mart class action suit—no big surprise from the Court that gave us Citizens United (2010). But as a nationwide assault on workers’ rights continues, it’s worth remembering the role that gender and religious views of gender play in the fate of labor. And experts say there’s little doubt that religion played a role in shaping the “Wal-Mart Way” on gender. (Recent stats show that t…

Creationists Try to Claim Scopes

By Lauri Lebo

…to introduce the latest anti-evolution strategy into public school science class. I have an article in today’s Scientific American about the proposed legislation, as well as continuing efforts in Texas and Louisiana to water down the teaching of evolution. What makes the Tennessee bill so interesting is that the man who leading the campaign is invoking the name of John Scopes, the science teacher convicted in 1925 for teaching evolution: [T]oday’s…

Kyl Demands Condemnation of “Violent or Hateful Rhetoric,” But Doesn’t Follow Own Advice

By Sarah Posner

…“Some on the liberal left seem to think that tax provisions in this bill should implement their particular philosophy of class warfare.”…

Egyptians Approve Constitution with Establishment of Islam as State Religion

By H.A. Hellyer

…—most of which has to do with the way that Egyptian society is split along class lines and geographical lines, and the failure of the “no” vote to engage beyond their comfort zone and build a coalition. Religion did play a role, though less as a spiritual imperative than as an identity politics movement. The Coptic Church let it be known that they supported a “no” vote on the basis that if a new constitution were arrived at later on, with a parlia…

Gay Marriage Measure Dies in Maryland

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o delegates’ job security—can still convince lawmakers to continue to treat some of their fellow citizens as second class….

Wisconsin Religious Voices Witness Against Scott Walker

By Daniel Schultz

…he haves and have-nots of society by taking resources away from the middle class and the poor and giving them to the wealthiest among us.” He continues: “This is a serious moral problem for religious people, because our sacred scriptures teach that the government has a responsibility to do the opposite – to prevent this gap from becoming too wide. We have therefore asked for a meeting with the Governor to discuss these moral concerns with him.” Me…

Big MoPublican Primary 2012: Dignity Watch

By Joanna Brooks

…ind me of the premium Mormon culture has placed on clean-cut all-American likeability. Since the middle of the twentieth-century, that’s been the ticket we’ve tried to ride away from our frontier origins and melt into the suburban middle class. And still, Mormons consistently find our faith ranking consistently low in public esteem. Perhaps there is a lesson in all of this for the Big MoPublican Primary contenders? When it comes to faith and polit…

After Westboro: The Trouble With “Tolerance”

By Cody J. Sanders

…eality. Tolerance allows our unearned privilege (whether racial privilege, class privilege, heterosexist privilege, etc.) to go unquestioned and unchallenged. So beneath the theological surface of the iceberg’s tip—Westboro and the like—we do not find less hateful and violent theological and ideological views, just more subtly expressed ones. Unfortunately, it is the power that does not look like power that is most effective in maintaining circums…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…ofessed “Chinese Tiger Mom,” about the weak parenting philosophy of middle-class Western parents, touched off waves of self-flagellation on the one hand and defensive rage on the other. Our national results might be interpreted to indicate that our parents and schools don’t know what they’re doing or that we’re inferior to the Chinese; if so, that judgment would be a knife twisting in our sides. However, there’s an odd emptiness at the center of b…