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In Oklahoma, Another Court Against Using Religion as Justification for Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…s was not a hidden or ulterior motive; it was consistently communicated to Oklahoma citizens as a justification” for the law. Citing the Windsor decision’s chronicle of DOMA’s supporters’ morality claims, the court compared them to how Oklahoma legislators promoted the ban as “upholding one specific moral view of marriage,” including statements about “what God has ordained as traditional marriage.” One legislator opined, “This is a Bible Belt stat…

The Unbearable Lack of Self-Awareness of the Anti-Muslim Sally Kern

By Sarah Posner

…ian right endeavors. In 2005, she sponsored a resolution, which passed the Oklahoma House by an 81-3 margin, asking Oklahoma public libraries to “confine homosexually themed books and other age-inappropriate material to areas exclusively for adult access and distribution,” after one of her constituents complained that her child checked King and King out of her library’s children’s section. In 2006, she opposed a $1 increase in the state minimum wa…

“Symbolic” Personhood Bill Could Kill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…law which, if enforced, could kill someone? Accordingly, as a resident of Oklahoma, an Oklahoma voter, and a Tulsan who likes my city a lot, I have a few questions for the bill’s supporters: 1. I would like to know why Senator Crain, and the bill’s supporters, seem to have such a low opinion of police officers that they think police officers will be totally cool with ignoring their sworn duty to uphold the law. Police officers, are you offended b…

In OK, a “Christian” And a “Muslim” Decapitation Challenge “Religious” Violence Narrative

By Joseph Laycock

…om some 1600 Catholics and even an exorcism by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley. Oklahoma City has also been the site of an ongoing controversy as The Satanic Temple (a different Satanic group) has campaigned to erect a monument to Satan on the grounds of the state capital to complement the current monument of the Ten Commandments. After Michael Tate Reed II rammed his car into the Ten Commandments monument on October 24, shattering it, the Satanic Temp…

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

By Eboo Patel

…ssivism I encountered in college helped me take pride in my color and ethnicity. I believe identities matter a great deal, and that expressing those identities in public is necessary and natural. But I think there are challenges, contradictions and blind spots in the broader movement of cultural progressivism which ought to be raised. The airline example reveals some of these. First of all, there is a religion-shaped hole in the worldview of cultu…

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…

Appeals Court Holds Oklahoma’s Shari’ah Ban Unconstitutional

By Sarah Posner

…y admitted . . . that they did not know of even a single instance where an Oklahoma court had applied Sharia law or used the legal precepts of other nations or cultures, let alone that such applications or uses had resulted in concrete problems in Oklahoma.” Despite the court’s level-headed ruling — that this ban was an unconstitutional solution to a non-existent problem — this will in short order become a campaign trail issue for Republicans. It…

Satanist Monument Shines Light on Christian Privilege

By Joseph Laycock

…isting the “seven aphorisms” of their religion in a park in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, virtually guarantees that Oklahoma will not have to erect a monument to Satan. Like the Oklahoma capital grounds, the park featured a number of monuments including a privately donated Ten Commandments monument. When the city vetoed Summum’s monument, the church’s lawyers argued that allowing one monument but not the other violated their freedom of speech. Howeve…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…eligious pilgrimage. Time and space are said to be different in Black Rock City. No one was talking on cell phones, clocks were largely invisible, and the city’s layout reoriented participants with its semi-circular streets running from A to L. This year the letters marked various rites of passage: Anniversary, Birthday, Coming Out, Divorce, Engagement, Funeral, Graduation, Hajj, Initiation, Journey, Kindergarten, and Liminal. Bisecting the rites…

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…