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Alabama Yoga Debate Focusing on the Wrong Question

By Candy Gunther Brown

…ism, Christian Science, and the “burgeoning New Age movement.” In opposing Alabama’s yoga bill, Becky Gerritson, director of Alabama’s Eagle Forum, may come close to the mark. Not only does introducing yoga in schools risk endorsing religion, it’s not a risk that needs to be taken, since “students can do stretches now in school.” If children can stretch already, and the proposed yoga programs consist of nothing more than stretches—the proposed bil…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Meet The Liberal Tea Partiers

By Abby Scher

…gious organizations. Its defeat on April 8 (despite majority support among Alabamans) means Alabama will continue to be, with Mississippi, one of only two states that burden their poor with a full state sales tax on groceries without any relief for low-income families,* amounting to about $450 per year for a family of four. And it will remain one of three states that allows the wealthy to deduct their federal income tax payments from their state t…

More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim

By Sarah Posner

…ieve President Obama is a Christian, and 52% believe he is a Muslim. These numbers, like in Alabama, are more pronounced among evangelicals: only 9% of evangelicals in Mississippi believe the president is a Christian, and 54% believe he is a Muslim. The real question here is why evangelicals believe this false and debunked conspiracy theory that the Christian president is a Muslim. I think the question of whether he is a Christian is a little less…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

LDS Church Launches New Website Calling for Greater Openness and Understanding on LGBT Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…was assaulted—gay bashed—in front of a Las Vegas club. He moved home to Montana, where he helped start the Montana Pride Foundation, organizing parades and HIV testing for Montana’s LGBT community. But he never stopped being Mormon. “I could never shake my beliefs,” he said. “I couldn’t go to church because I felt guilty, and it was a small town and everyone knew. But my gay friends would get mad at me for being LDS.” As the years went by, Cox…

Welcome to Alabama’s Most Biblical Town

By Sarah Posner

A north Alabama television station reports that a quote from Ephesians 4:5, “One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism,” will be returned to Sylvania, Alabama’s welcome signs after it was temporarily taken down after a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Meanwhile, last week, Mayor Mitchell Dendy scrawled a handwritten, one-line resignation letter after he was fired from his other job as chief administrator at the county jail after the sh…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…ere and it shall scan over many of your states. We give to you the name of Alabama. It has been decided that we shall remain within your atmosphere for the minimum of three of your twenty four hour periods. During this time there will be much commotion upon your earth plane. Your highest authorities will be intruding into ‘our’ atmospherics that surround our ship. This ‘security field’ is necessary for us, as there shall take place a ‘farce’ from…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…way from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and offer a vision of the cross of Jesus that has nothing to say to the crosses, and lynching trees, of history. But, if we do, we will be settling for the gospel of Caesar, not the good news of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the diffi…