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Court Strikes Down Pennsylvania Law Forbidding “Blasphemous” Business Names

By Lauri Lebo

…ing to a news release from the Pennsylvania ACLU (I am a board member of a local chapter) the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that the statute violated the First Amendment prohibition on establishment of religion and promoted only Christian religious views. Words used by the Pennsylvania Corporations Bureau to flag proposed names for closer scrutiny included terms such as Christ and Jesus but not those related to o…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Rainbow Index ranked it the worst place in Europe to be gay, based on the number of violent homophobic attacks and discriminatory remarks by public figures. The CBC says the president of an Azerbaijani LGBT rights group, who now lives in Germany, “told CBC nes gay people in the oil-rich, mainly Muslim country have been subjected to occasional harassment in the past, but a systematic effort to detain people in unprecedented.” Lawyer Samed Rahimli…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…with, however, that the Catholic people, and many Catholic leaders at the local level, embrace far different—and more compassionate—views on this issue than the Conference of Catholic Bishops,” said Steve Ralls, the group’s communications director. Fr. Joseph Palacios, a sociology professor at Georgetown University, is working to launch the group Catholics for Equality next month, which will support the UAFA. “Catholics as a religious body are th…

Speaker Mike Johnson to Allow Privately Run National Prayer Breakfast into the Heart of the Capitol

By Jonathan Larsen

…ongress. Nothing has happened with the bill, but Statuary Hall is the next best thing, and rich with its own history and symbolic implications for any events taking place there. Statuary Hall was used early in its history for presidential inaugurations and more recently for distinguished political leaders to lie in state. The Family historically has sought to cloak the event in the trappings of government, using images of the Capitol dome and even…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ere the party is headed in 2024. Moderation is not an option—quite the opposite. No matter how long Johnson manages to cling on to the job, before he eventually gets eaten by one of his own (see: John Boehner, Paul Ryan and, most recently, Kevin McCarthy), one thing is clear: The GOP has turned its back on democracy, and is out to destroy and walk back all the civil rights progress since the 1960s. A conservative supermajority gone wild The most i…

CA Sen. Kamala Harris To Make A Very Interesting Church Appearance…

By Daniel Schultz

…spoke at the dedication of their present sanctuary, and Teddy Roosevelt visited a couple of years later. It was the home church of Atlanta’s first black millionaire, and it has a long history of serving the local black community and helping to lead the cause of civil rights. Andrew Young was based at First throughout the 1960s and 70s. Jeremiah Wright gave a revival there a decade before before he became that Jeremiah Wright. But here’s the truly…

Puerto Rico Prays for Truth: Reporter David Begnaud’s Sacred Mission

By Spencer Dew

…one point, his cartoon avatar high-fived the cartoon avatar of another Facebook employee who was “with” him in this “journey.” “One of the things that’s really magical about virtual reality is you can get the feeling that you’re really in a place,” the Facebook founder said, as if the place were nothing but a 360-degree flat screen view. He has since apologized for the stunt, but that he and his team thought it a good idea in the first place is pr…

Ground-Zero Mosque: A Call for Internal Muslim Debate

By Abbas Jaffer

…al of giving Islam and American Muslims good PR, with more exposure than a localized project. Furthermore, any debate highlights the plurality of voices in the American Muslim community. Just by engaging one another and openly airing differences of opinion on Cordoba House, efforts to malign the Muslim community are frustrated because of our visible internal diversity. Competing priorities and consensus-building paints a more accurate picture of t…

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…to poor folks of many races — poor whites, blacks, Puerto Ricans, American Indians — and a pair of worried politicians speaking together in the background, with a caption that reads, “What worries me, senator, is that they’re getting into step.” Building the unity of the poor and dispossessed is itself an act of building political power. Yet talking about centering the ethical framework of the poor isn’t the same as romanticizing the poor; it does…

How “Race Tests” Maintain Evangelical Segregation

By Joshua L. Lazard

…egations and denominations that are decidedly liberal and stand at the opposite end of the theological spectrum. Studies have shown time and time again that this segregation has held true for a multiplicity of reasons. While these reasons range from the difference of praise and worship style and doctrinal differences, to residential segregation or the preference of non-whites creating affirming spaces of their own, white liberal churches aren’t ex…