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God’s Amicus Curiae on Town of Greece v. Galloway SCOTUS Case

By Peter Laarman

…ogue upon learning that Obama’s Solicitor General has sided with the town: Greece, New York? Oh, right: Those guys have been asking me to show up for their council meetings for a long time. I tried to go once, but it’s really hard to pay attention. Nobody ever watches the meetings on public access TV, so why should I have to sit through them? Snow removal budgets, a new contract for the sanitation guys, that sort of thing. I do remember from that…

After Greece, Humanists Launch Push for Secular Invocations

By Sarah Posner

…ount to an Establishment Clause violation. Given the nature of the Town of Greece prayers, the decision left many wondering how egregious a violation would have to be before the Court would find it unconstitutional. While such a case might exist and become a target of litigation, the humanists are taking another approach: building on Justice Kennedy’s admonition that municipalities must strive to identify a diversity of local religions from which…

Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…tutions and individuals on matters related to reproductive health care. The 2019 legislative session has not yet begun, but Project Blitz is already getting attention. The national organization Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) recently hosted a webinar on their Online Academy featuring Alison Gill, vice president for legal and policy affairs at the American Atheists; Elizabeth Reiner Platt, director of the Public Rights/Private Con…

After Greece, Humanists Launch Push for Secular Invocations

By Sarah Posner

…ount to an Establishment Clause violation. Given the nature of the Town of Greece prayers, the decision left many wondering how egregious a violation would have to be before the Court would find it unconstitutional. While such a case might exist and become a target of litigation, the humanists are taking another approach: building on Justice Kennedy’s admonition that municipalities must strive to identify a diversity of local religions from which…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…2023; “Vladimir Putin Makes Little Mention of Ukraine in New Year Speech,” BBC, December 31, 2023. [4] The exact phrasing—“traditional family values”—comes from Putin’s speech at January’s launch of the Year of the Family in Russia rather than his New Year’s Eve speech. However, as this article argues, the phrases “traditional values” and “traditional family values” are purposefully kept interchangeable in Russian contemporary political context. […

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…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…mp Judges Are Trying to Repeal the New Deal,” People For the American Way, December 20, 2019, https://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/how-trump-judges-are-trying-to-repeal-the-new-deal/. [79] Peter Montgomery, “’Rome Wasn’t Burned in a Day’: Right-Wing Plans for SCOTUS to Dismantle the Safety Net,” Right Wing Watch, July 24, 2018, https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/a-trumped-up-judiciary-threatens-social-security-medicare-and-the-rest-of-the-20th-century…

Greek Abbot Arrested for Role in Financial Scandal

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…monks had traded some relatively worthless land by a lake in north-central Greece; land that had been ceded to them by a Byzantine emperor centuries before for extensive real estate holdings in Athens, costing the Greek government (and the taxpayers) an estimated $130 million or more. It was unclear how the thing had been arranged, but the scandal led to the defeat of the ruling conservative coalition of the New Democracy in late 2009. This scanda…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…that Democrats need to get better at telling stories than at crunching the numbers, in this battle of the budget, the numbers actually matter. Hell, it’s a fight about numbers. And balance. And the virtue of justice. What this latest budget battle, and the question of raising the debt ceiling, and the straw polls are revealing, is just how Tertullian a wing of the Republican Party has become. It not only offers absurd arguments with a straight fac…