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Darrell Issa’s Show Trial
on Alleged Obama Administration “Anti-Catholic Bias”

By Sarah Posner

…, told me. Rather, grantees are to refer clients — many of whom have been brutally raped and otherwise sexually abused — for the “full range of legal obstetric and gynecological care,” McMullen said. In other words, here are the Republican priorities: opposition to referring victims of kidnapping, assault, rape, and imprisonment by violent abusers to reproductive health care that includes abortions and family planning services, while protecting th…

Death of a Self-Proclaimed God-Man: Sai Baba’s Controversial Career

By Andrea R. Jain

…o did his financial worth. In 1972 the Satya Sai Central Trust was set up. Today the trust is estimated to be worth at least $8.9 billion. It has funded water supply projects in poor areas of southern India as well as ashrams, hospitals, universities, and several schools across India and globally. Sai Baba was most famous for his miracles—mainly materializations of valuable objects. He is believed to have had the power to conjure jewelry as gifts…

And What of the Non-Jewish Jews?

By Shaul Magid

…sh” was a liability and anti-semitism was palpable, the number of non-Jews today who identify as Jewish seems historically distinctive. We could, perhaps, point to the so-called “fearers of heaven,” an undocumented community of Hellenes in late antiquity who lived in large Jewish population centers, apparently lived partially as Jews, and had some status in the Jewish community. But today’s non-Jewish Jews aren’t identifying as such because they l…

Invoking God’s Name Like a Bludgeon

By Lauri Lebo

…it’s about the dignity, huh? And I love the comment under the above posted YouTube video by Epicrebt07: Nothing says “I’m secure in my beliefs” like a bitter, public diatribe. On Wednesday, the court issued a ruling denying defendants’ motion to dismiss. A hearing to rule on a plaintiffs’ request for preliminary injunction to prevent the prayers at a May 21 scholarship ceremony is scheduled May 3….

Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…blishment clause restriction. For example, in 2011, Dr. Glenn Mendoza sued New York’s Good Samaritan Hospital for religious discrimination against him as a practitioner of Arhatic Yoga, Pranic Healing, and Superbrain Yoga. In this context, Mendoza described yoga as “devoted spiritual practice rooted in religion and ancient spiritual teachings of meditation . . . no different than being Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Muslim.” In 2012, Mendoza…

Vaccine Mandates are Constitutional; Religious Exemptions are Unnecessary and Harmful

By Andrew L. Seidel

…er people’s lives. As Chrissy Stroop recently pointed out here on RD, “sometimes religion is the problem.” This Supreme Court hasn’t yet ruled on religious exemptions to mandatory vaccinations in the Covid-era, but it’s almost certain that the five Covid justices will side with Christian privilege. They’ve already weaponized religious freedom against public health orders, among other things. I’d bet on a decision in favor of mandatory religious ex…

Muslim Mickey Mouse Tweet by Christian Billionaire Sparks Controversy

By Joseph Hammond

…a (which fought an armed insurgency against Mubarak in the 1990s) told the newspaper Al-Dostour that he had organized a Facebook boycott of all products associated with Sawiris. Not to be outdone, Mamdouh Ismail has apparently filed a lawsuit against the billionaire. Ismail is the chairman of the new Nahda (Renaissance) Party, though this Salafi group has yet to be accredited by the Egyptian government. By taking on Egypt’s most prominent Copt, Is…

Facing White Christianity’s Role in the January 6th Insurrection

By Robert P. Jones

…ex: 78 out of 100. Similarly, 58% of white mainline Protestants voted for Trump, while their median Racism Index score is 69 out of 100. And Trump received the vote of 57% of white Catholics, a group with a median Racism Index score of 72 out of 100. By contrast, only 26% of white religiously unaffiliated Americans voted for Trump, a level roughly in line with their much lower median Racism Index score of 29. Clearly, we white Christians have bare…

Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…hip, Taylor deserves greater scrutiny. In Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker piece on Spears’s conservatorship, for example, they include a single throwaway line about Taylor’s religious beliefs: “Jamie had become close to Lou Taylor, a business manager who shares the Spears family’s Christian faith and whose husband is a pastor at an evangelical church.” Taylor deserves greater scrutiny because, as multiple journalists have reported, she…

The Santorum Legacy: The Fertility Wars

By Sarah Posner

…oliticians with national aspirations dare to use. “We were winning in a very different way, we were winning hearts, we were raising issues that other people didn’t want to raise,” Santorum said today. Many of his fellow Republicans probably didn’t want him to raise them, and now they’re stuck with them, even with Santorum gone….