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Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment

By Jay Michaelson

…sion, and to a lesser extent our current moral moment on LGBT equality—are times in which this civil religion becomes more apparent, for better or for worse. Certainly, more radical activists find the very notion deplorable, and argue that the state should get out of the marriage business (for example) entirely. But they are on the fringe, and I think they’ll stay there. For the vast majority of Americans, our country is a place in which ethical v…

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…f it in class for years to come. [Full disclosure: I was interviewed a few times by the show’s producers—once in person and several times by phone—and gave them some advice on what kinds of material I would like to see included.] But I do want to ask what this series would look like if we also understand American religious history to be about coercion and authority? Most of God in America is about the white Protestant majority in American history….

A Response to Hussein Rashid

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…d Ahmadi Muslims as “wajib-ul-qatl” or “worthy of death.” For example, the Times Square bomber, Faisal Shezad, a United States citizen, was recruited and trained by the Tehrik-e-Taliban — the very group that proudly claimed responsibility for the May 28th attacks on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Lahore. In short, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community courageously seeks to defend Islam in the face of bitter persecution and hostility. Groups like the A…

Arkansas’s Creationism Bill is Also Motivated by Anti-Trans Bigotry

By Andrew L. Seidel

…xpresses God’s fiery heart.” Whatever that means, the book inserts so many new words, clauses, and ideas, that it’s about 50% longer than other translations.). Next, she read the creationist classic Genesis 1:27 and then Deuteronomy 22:5, which says that women wearing men’s clothes or vice versa is “an abomination to the Lord.” Bentley tediously opined, “Father God is proud of who he created each of us to be and to deny who you are is to deny that…

Challenging Plantation Capitalism: Rev. Barber’s Holy Cause

By Tefere Gebre

…itical power in 1868 than they did in 1968.” He urges us to see the Reconstruction period and the great 20th century civil rights era as times when a different kind of America came close to being born. And he acknowledges the bitter truth that, in different ways, the bad guys ultimately prevailed both times in the South—that “the monied elites of plantation capitalism” came out on top—both in the late 19th century and again in the late 20th centur…

Fischer Says Romney “Insulted” Values Voters Crowd

By Sarah Posner

…. His reply: I thought it was tasteless. I thought he was allowing the New York Times and the Southern Poverty Law Center and People for the American Way to dictate the content of his speech, which I think was a mistake for him to do at the Values Voters Summit. That was kind of an insult to the people in the room. . . . I don’t think it helped him. I then asked Fischer whether he though only an evangelical Christian was qualified to be president…

Religious Exemption for Contraception Under Health Care Law

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…of all pregnancies in this country are unplanned, with poor women now five times more likely than higher-income women to have an unplanned pregnancy, and six times more likely to have an unplanned birth, according to the Guttmacher Institute’s recent analysis of government data… Poorer women suffer when they have unintended births—as do their children. Research shows that women with unplanned pregnancies are more likely to smoke, drink, and go wit…

Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…ndidate Huntsman. A refreshingly sober and penetrating take comes from the New York Times’ Matt Bai, who observes that Huntsman has already encountered trouble on the campaign trail connecting with voters, leaving them “disappointed” by his “lack of any evident vision.” The perception that Huntsman lacks a clear vision is not helped along by videos launched by the campaign to introduce the candidate, nor by his washed-out looking website. Go to ca…

Motivations of “God Hates Fags” Church’s Philosophy

By Lauri Lebo

…ly the elect mentioned in the book of Revelation will be saved. As the end times near, Westboro members are on a new quest to find the 144,000 Jews who will convert in the last days (Revelation 7:4). Amarasingam also analyzes the roots of the church’s Calvinist tradition for The Daily Beast in “Inside the Real Koran-Burning Church”: Understanding the church and its actions requires an understanding of its history and theology. Founded in 1955, Wes…

As Psychedelics Experience a Renaissance, Emory’s New Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality Seeks a Novel Approach

By Hollis Phelps

…rs come into Indigenous lands, pillage their natural resources, and patent new medicinal compounds based on those resources, furthering modern medicine while bringing destruction to Indigenous habitats and ways of life.” Although it remains to be seen how the ECPS addresses the issue, the very fact that it’s mentioned is a step in the right direction, a step that other centers should consider as well. One other feature of the ECPS that sets it apa…