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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…

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…

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…

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…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al and same-sex couples is obviously a positive development. It means that Greece will be in compliance with the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights. We are, however, aware that the proposed draft is very similar to earlier failed drafts made by previous governments. Unfortunately, the document does not recognize unions made by foreign authorities. Even if this legislation is pushed through, Greece is still far behind many other democrac…

Talking With the “Religious Terrorist” that Turkey Wants Trump to Extradite

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…o face charges that he was involved in the failed coup attempt against the Turkish strong man, Recip Erdogan, several months ago. And Trump’s national security advisor, General Michael Flynn, a former Turkish lobbyist, has suggested that this will be on the top of the agenda for the new foreign policy team. The extradition will likely trigger a storm of protest from human rights activists around the world because a conviction of Gulen by Turkish c…

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…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s and we cannot be open in public anymore.” The proposed bill emboldened a number of radical nationalist movements and, according to activists at Labrys, a gay activism group in Kyrgyzstan, led to a near 300 percent increase in attacks against the community. Activists fear things will get worse once a Russian-style anti-gay “propaganda” bill gets its final reading in parliament and becomes law; a restrictive definition of marriage was placed into…

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

By Eboo Patel

…as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accommodations—in the back of the airplane. I fly frequently and while I have never witnessed the above situation I have seen many circumstances in which people have moved to accommodate others. I have seen people give up their aisle seat to a senior citizen and take his middle. I have watched passengers with first c…

Supreme Court Rules Sectarian Legislative Prayer Constitutional

By Sarah Posner

…ing their benefits,” she wrote. Kagan detailed the continuous instances in Greece during which prayer was conducted in Jesus’s name, raised hypotheticals about how such prayer would affect a non-Christian Greece resident, and concluded that the majority’s decision was driven by a mistaken “What’s the big deal, anyway?” message. Segall said of today’s decision: “If eight years of exclusively Christian prayers with prayer-givers asking people to bow…