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The Cynical Use of “Freedom of Religion”

By Kate Childs Graham

…ight in the United States has done a similar thing, standing behind the shield of religious freedom to fight against the restriction of speech for 501(c)(3) organizations. In 1954, Senator Lyndon Johnson presented an amendment to Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3), which was subsequently adopted by Congress. The amendment defined nonprofit tax-exempt entities—including churches—as those “which [do] not participate in, or intervene in (including the p…

Only Fetuses and Popes are Worthy

By Frances Kissling

…under duress and the penalty does not apply. Finally if these people genuinely believed that they were doing the most moral thing possible in a very difficult situation; no penalty applies. Can you imagine that a mother or a doctor confronted with a nine-year-old who has been raped would not believe that the most decent and moral thing one can do is terminate the pregnancy? Can you imagine a pastor not standing with that family, that child and tho…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…k that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant?” Of those same climate scientists, 97.4% answered ‘yes’ to the question, “Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?” Despite these figures, some state lawmakers are now part of a misinformation campaign to foster the notion that there is no consensus—just as they have with evolution. And they’r…

Rick Santorum Figures Out the Feminist Plot to Create “Phony” Abortion Exceptions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…a 16-pound breech baby in a tub in a barn through her nostril if she only believes in herself. But then the sister who brought the motion… ah! You know, it was Lady Douglas Heatherscote of Braintree. (I remember because she always wore this camouflage tutu which she said subverted phallogocentrism.) Yes. Anyway. Lady Douglas pointed out that it would allow us to fabricate compelling reasons for aborting fetuses in the second and third trimester….

Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

By Peter Montgomery

…nday project, which has been growing over the past decade, is the fervent belief among religious right leaders that America would not be such a cesspool of abortion, homosexuality, and secularism if only more pastors had the courage to speak freely from the pulpit. Too many pastors are being intimidated, they believe, by restrictions against political endorsements by tax-exempt nonprofits (501c3 groups in IRS lingo) which includes churches. Garlow…

Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

By Aryeh Cohen

…the Jewish community) and eighties, there was a larger embrace of Jewish religious language, spurred on by the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Gershom Scholem. However, the form and content of political speech remained the same as in other liberal-left organizations (with some exceptions, as in Arthur Waskow’s and Michael Lerner’s experiments with a spiritual-political language). Taking Back the Texts The first ten years of the twenty-firs…

American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise

By Mary E. Hunt

…Visitation, which seemed to have fallen into oblivion with Pope Francis’ relatively warmer approach. Some thought that the Vatican would be content to focus its scrutiny on the LCWR, maybe split the difference, and let the Apostolic Visitation fade. The pedophilia scandal and its cover-up, along with financial and membership losses, have so weakened the institution’s moral standing that any critique of the social justice-seeking nuns was plainly…

Inventing “Jihad”

By Asma Afsaruddin

…the internal, nonviolent jihad is continuous and unconditional, they are deliberately dissembling about the real nature of jihad and their religion. It is not only anti-Islamic websites that list such perceptions; popular media and mainstream publications also contribute to the formation of such views. Militant Islamist websites and print literature reinforce such ideas. More sophisticated and/or sympathetic sources will often refer to the “great…

Romney Banking on Trump’s Birthers Pulling Him Over Finish Line

By Sarah Posner

…t the Koran is, that there’s a lot of hate in the Koran. Because Romney’s religion relies on a sacred text that other people who might get Romney over 50% think is satanic, you’d think Romney might have some discomfort with this blatant disparaging of other peoples’ religion. This Romney, though, has been Etch-a-Sketched away: Poisonous language does not advance our cause. It has never softened a single heart nor changed a single mind. The blessin…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r you’re a B&B, a religious facility renting space or a lunch counter. If religious beliefs are more important than opening your facility to the public then become a private club like the Boy Scouts so you can pick and choose your clients. Of course, that doesn’t deter the religious right from going to ridiculous lengths to claim their “victimhood.” In Maryland, a group of “ex-gays” is insisting that they be included as a “minority” in a pending s…