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Will SCOTUS’s New Zeal for “Neutrality” Affect its Decision on the “Muslim Ban”?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…lfully ignore the overwhelmingly Christian nature of the prayer, deciding that the fact “[t]hat nearly all of the congregations in town turned out to be Christian does not reflect an aversion or bias on the part of town leaders against minority faiths.” Of course the elephant in the courtroom is not how the Court’s repeated emphasis on religious neutrality squares with its past decisions, but how it will affect the other most important religion ca…

In the Church of Lincoln

By Michael A. Elliott

…ts so that he could find room to maneuver among a coalition of supporters that threatened to shatter the broken nation into even smaller pieces. Unfortunately what is missing is a way to connect Lincoln-the-divine with Lincoln-the-pol, the man of principle with the man of shrewd calculation. The cacophony of voices urging him to sign the Emancipation Proclamation (as well as some urging for a truly national emancipation that would have included th…

Crying Witch: Learning From the O’Donnell “Dabbling” Debacle

By Spencer Dew

…gnized religious organizations, these are also extremely varied religions that, no matter what O’Donnell said on Politically Incorrect, do not require membership in anything like a “coven” in order to be official. In short, one is a witch when one claims to be a witch. One may be a card-carrying member of a coven that is also a legally registered nonprofit, or one may base one’s beliefs and practices on a given text (be it, on the Wiccan side, som…

Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…e Union board members considered him a “crazy bigot” who made the tin foil hat charge that the board had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. At the conference, a Center for Security Policy employee handed out a flyer that described shari’ah as “a supremacist program that justifies the destruction of Christian churches and parishioners” and “the replacement of our constitutional republic. . . .with a theocratic Islamic caliphate governing a…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…s piece in the NY Times, “The Changing Face of the Burning Man Festival,” that ran on Burning Man’s opening day. It turns out that the Burning Man organization will be shifting from a for-profit company to a nonprofit. How much will the payout be to the six owners? Burners want to know. Those who gripe about the degeneration of Burning Man into a consumer event could add this sale to a long list of complaints: rules and more rules, opaque finances…

“My Name is Will and I’m Putting You on Notice”

By Lauri Lebo

…stand and refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance in class. Will believes that until gays and lesbians receive the same rights and recognition as heterosexuals in this country, the phrase “liberty and justice for all” is just a farce and he refuses to be a part of it. Phillips was speaking at the Big Commit Sunday in Washington DC, a counter-rally to the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage’s wrap up of its “Summer for Marriage” tour. (Hat…

Israeli Jesus: More Popular Than Ever

By Shalom Goldman

…oduction of the play, it was a different sector of the Israeli population that objected. As the theater was in Jaffa and represented both Jewish and Arab theatergoers, Christian Arab residents of the town protested vigorously. Their claim: that the play “portrays Jesus in a negative light… it hurts the feelings of Christians in Jaffa and throughout the world.” The political stakes here were high. Israel’s approximately one million Arab citizens ar…

Blue Jean Revolution

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…h you will feel instantly happy and at home. No, not at home. Better than that. So that you will feel like you are in paradise. Such utopias are rare. And the kind of utopians who devote themselves to their sustenance and care are rarer still. I had the supreme good fortune of meeting one such utopian, an old and dear personal friend, for cocktails at the Veggera, as the Ionian sun drifted lazily into the sea. It was the sort of scene before which…

Birtherism at Values Voters

By Sarah Posner

…this video. Peterson, who appeared in a cowboy hat and boots and claimed that President Obama “hates America,” led Dave Weigel to tweet, “This episode of “Hee-Haw” was brought to you by WorldNetDaily.” Peterson made clear he was invited here by the Family Research Council’s Tom McCluskey. Peterson not only thinks Obama hates America, he also doesn’t believe Obama was born in the United States. I asked him that after his appearance, and here’s his…

Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade

By Carmen Celestini

…omments from a Proud Boys Chat Group on Telegram Using language and memes that promote the idea of the degeneration of the nation at the hands of feminism or gender rights, nationalists are positioned as the opposition to progress and create a stigmatization of groups who are on the margins of society, labelling them as degenerate classes. LGBTQ2SA groups, sex workers, criminals, feminists, and substance-addicted individuals are defined as “racial…