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MN Lawmaker: “How Many Gay People Does God Have to Make?”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Sexuality and sexual orientation are a gift from God.’ And I think that’s true. I think the scientific evidence shows more and more every day that sexuality and sexual orientation are innate and something people are born with.” ”If that’s true,” Simon told ban supporters, “what does that mean to the moral force of your argument?” Then, he delivered the final blow to the religious argument: “How many gay people does God have to create before we ask…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…uals surrounding our worship of the flag. In my church, when the Gospel is read during a sacramental service, all of the people in attendance who are able stand, and turn towards the book, which is elevated in their midst. At the announcement of the reading, many mark their heads, lips, and hearts with a cross. We do the same thing for the Pledge of Allegiance. The US Flag Code advises: #172. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, ‘I pledge allegia…

Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?

By Austin Dacey

…s and 1940s work of French Catholic personalist intellectuals and on the spread of “human dignity” in Western European constitutions, beginning with the 1937 Christian Democratic constitution of Ireland, Moyn concludes that “through this lost and misremembered transwar era, it is best to see human rights as a project of the Christian right for the most part, not the secular left.” Is the advancement of human rights in the 1940s best seen as a proj…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ditions of marginalized faith communities broadly speaking. In what is, by today’s standards, an inconceivable display of bipartisanship, a nearly unanimous Congress approved the federal RFRA in 1993 as a response to a Supreme Court decision that upheld the firing of two Native Americans who lost their jobs as drug counselors after using peyote during a religious ceremony. But modern iterations of this type of legislation (See: Indiana, Arkansas,…