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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…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…rory) look nothing like the sensible Republicans of the past that had kept North Carolina from being fully captured in the Old South (or the old South Africa for that matter). They will tell you that these politicians are not Republicans but reactionaries who fear a multicultural progressive future for North Carolina. Whether in fact the emerging diversity of the state’s population will create a more robust democracy is an open question, but the c…

Updated: Billy Graham Endorses North Carolina Discrimination Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…elist Billy Graham has reportedly released a written statement encouraging North Carolina voters to back the anti-gay ballot initiative that would write discrimination against same-sex couples into the state’s Constitution. According to news reports, his letter will run as an ad this weekend in 14 North Carolina newspapers. The Associated Press reports, “The 93-year-old Graham said the Bible is clear in that God’s definition of marriage is between…

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…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…self-identified Protestant voters. In 2008, Romney won about 13% of South Carolina Protestants; in 2012, that number grew to 27%. Certainly, data shows that anti-Mormon sentiment played a role in Romney’s fortunes, but here are five other takeaways from South Carolina data: 1. Anti-Mormon sentiment may be fading among mainline Protestant denominations. 2. Evangelical Christians are not a monolithic population. Clearly, evangelicals in New Hampsh…

Religion at the Moral March

By Peter Montgomery

…nizing and voter engagement work. Although Barber’s movement is focused on North Carolina – and he is adamant that change in America must happen from the bottom up – it has drawn hopeful attention from progressive advocates nationwide for the way he has inspired people to action against far-right extremism with a broad, values-based appeal. A speaker at Saturday’s rally from a Muslim social justice group praised Barber for taking the term “moral”…

North Carolina Feels the ‘Love’ in Amendment Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…arry would be the equivalent of a nuclear holocaust. Equality advocates in North Carolina — whose energetic campaign has turned next Tuesday’s vote on a brutally broad anti-gay constitutional amendment into a closer-than-many-expected contest — have really been feeling the “love” from their opponents. Perhaps the star of this sad show is the Rev. Patrick Wooden, whose outrageous diatribes have included reminiscing about times when anti-LGBT violen…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…ned the gun on herself and committed suicide. • April 15, 1908, Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. C.O. Swinney shot and fatally wounded his 16-year-old daughter Nellie in a reception room at Normal and Collegiate Institute. He then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. • February 12, 1909, San Francisco, California. 10-year-old Dorothy Malakanoff was shot and killed by 49-year-old Demetri Tereaschinko as she arrived at her school in San…

UCC First Church to Sue State Over Gay Marriage Ban

By Peter Montgomery

…wsuit — which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina — argues the marriage amendment violates the religious beliefs of denominations and congregants who support the recognition of gay nuptials and clergy who want to perform them. Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, president of the United Church of Christ, and Rev. Nancy Kraft of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Charlotte are among the plaintiffs who attended a Charlotte pr…

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…