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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…

Religious Practices on Trial in Arizona: The Problem With “Experts”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…in the Lakota style, not Navajo, which is the tribal affiliation of a good number of inmates in the Arizona prison system (an amazing fact that is a story for another time). So, even though a non-Indian might be compelled to be put on trial for killing people with his “ceremony,” it is Native American religion which will be the defendant in this case. Consider. James Ray’s defense might be compelled to bring in experts to argue that he did the cer…

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…

Religious Right Split on Arizona Immigration Law

By Sarah Posner

…ch filed an amicus brief on behalf of 81 members of Congress defending the Arizona statute, called the court’s ruling “an extremely disappointing decision that further harms the citizens of Arizona.” But Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, who has been part of a group of evangelicals lobbying for immigration reform (albeit without equal rights for LGBT people), said: I agree with the judge’s ruling because immigration is a federal, not a state issue. T…

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…arlier—once again aimed largely at Mexicans and Mexican-Americans—that the Arizona-born Cesar Chavez endured a twenty-five day “Fast for Justice” back in 1972. Arizona House Bill 2134 prevented farm workers, the vast majority of whom were Mexican and Chicano, from organizing, picketing, and boycotting—effectively stripping them of rights guaranteed to all other American workers. Chavez turned to these tactics as a recourse against employers who ex…

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…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…gence apps” including As One America, which contains the name, address and phone number of Christian neighbors “who are not showing up to vote or who are not registered.” He then showed a map with big red arrows pointing to precincts “within striking distance” from Vida Church to the precincts that are “where the devil’s got a stronghold that God wants to break up.” The app was developed by Superfeed Technologies, which has also designed apps for…

Anti-Immigrant Legislator Takes Aim At Arizona Children

By Joanna Brooks

…ccess to the great welfare state we’ve created.” Pearce (along with former Arizona governor Evan Mecham, also LDS) attended lectures delivered by LDS ultra-conservative Cleon Skousen, founder of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, in Arizona in the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps Skousen’s “originalist” views of the U.S. Constitution have led Pearce and other supporters of this new anti-immigrant legislation to believe that they are uniquely…

Pennsylvania Anti-Immigration Law Unconstitutional

By Lauri Lebo

…ch filed an amicus brief on behalf of 81 members of Congress defending the Arizona statute, called the court’s ruling “an extremely disappointing decision that further harms the citizens of Arizona.” But Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, who has been part of a group of evangelicals lobbying for immigration reform (albeit without equal rights for LGBT people), said: “I agree with the judge’s ruling because immigration is a federal, not a state issue….

Poll: Gays Oppose Arizona Immigration Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ut of 10 (60%) heterosexual adults who also have seen, read or heard about Arizona’s forthcoming statute say they support Arizona’s new immigration policies, with 41% saying they strongly support these changes.” Why the difference? It’s the oppression, silly. As Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications (one of the co-sponsors of the poll) explained: “it’s not surprising that many LGBT individuals are opposed to many forms of statutory discri…