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What Masterpiece Cakeshop Oral Arguments Suggest About the Future of LGBT Discrimination

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ociety is clearly continuing to wrestle with an issue on which substantial numbers of Americans continue to differ, usually for religious reasons. Masterpiece Cakeshop gets at a number of disputed questions, but regardless of which way the justices rule, others will likely go unanswered. Beginning to thread this needle will likely be the task of Justice Kennedy, who did not tip his hand in today’s arguments about how he intends to reconcile his la…

The Subway Sandwich Artist Argument; When “Religious Freedom” Isn’t About Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…criminate, whether motivated by religious belief or raw animosity,” to any number of businesses whose conduct could even vaguely be said to be creative in nature. Advocates on both sides have lost no time in spelling out the specific fates that might befall religiously affiliated non-profits and small businesses on the one hand, or LGBTQ people (particularly LGBTQ people of color) and religious believers who support same-sex marriage on the other….

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…current economy. So goes the American Dream these days. A New Light on the City on the Hill It was an ironic (now almost cruel) turn in the American dreamscape when Ronald Reagan set a new American imaginary on a “shining city on a hill” that he remembered, with perhaps more glimmer than light, from the “Sermon on the Mount” of Matthew’s gospel. There, after the long inventory of blessings upon the poor, the hungry, and the peacemakers (which make…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from be…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…d to have been a false alarm. I shared what I learned with those standing around me or who didn’t have a phone, compared notes with others about what they knew, and tried to calm some who were scared and close to panic. As far as I could tell, the TSA personnel and other security officials seemed know about as much as the passengers about what was happening—all around me, I sensed a complete failure of nerve. A black woman wearing a security vest…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…ughter Bella was hospitalized.) Organizers said they had distributed 1,800 tickets, and the pews in the church were nearly full, with several hundred, if not nearly a thousand people in attendance. Gingrich was the only candidate to appear; Staver, the “forum’s” moderator took pains to point out that they had invited the other candidates. Santorum and Ron Paul had commitments outside of Florida. Mitt Romney, the candidate Staver and other leaders…

Muhammad and the Blind Man: A Lesson in Sensitivity

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…lay in dairy country 30 miles east of Los Angeles. His mission — to obtain city and county approval for a new mosque in Chino. Week after week, public hearing after public hearing — my father would round up the family in the station wagon and rehearse his “talking points” for the public during the long drives up north. I remember sitting by his side in the school auditoriums as he prepared to take the podium to make his pitch for the mosque. Cool,…

The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips

By Andrew Aghapour

…We’re borrowing from Oliver Sacks, who writes about someone who had an LSD trip that was deeply transformative and meaningful. What was striking to us is that the elements of the trip corresponded to the classic definition of near-death experiences. It included a life-review scene (life passed before him like a movie), out of body experience, warm feelings—the classic hallmarks of near-death experience. The person having the LSD trip was quite hap…

RD10Q: Holy Hullabaloos: A Fun Book on Church and State

By Jay Wexler

…Vowell’s amazing Assassination Vacation, where she talks about her various trips to places connected to the assassinations of different presidents. I had just finished reading some other funny road-trip books like Steve Almond’s Candyfreak, and all of a sudden it occurred to me that maybe I should get out of my stuffy office and hit the road, see what I could learn by visiting the places where these church/state cases I’d been teaching about for s…

Good News Bad News

By Amina Wadud

…sing hajj visas. It has reported that it will take 10-12 business days. My trip is too soon to get my visa processed even if they still had it before the Berlin dates, and too late to process if I go to Berlin and try to get it done after I return. In other words, as the guy put it, either take your trip or get your hajj visa. Not much of a choice really. I mean, it’s not like comparing apples and oranges. So, today when the post office opens I wi…