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Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

…about whether such an arrangement would satisfy his clients, but he was non-committal. (Religious non-profits have also brought RFRA claims against the accommodation.) The argument wasn’t over, though, without a kosher butcher analogy. This one was raised by Justice Samuel Alito, who pointed to a Danish effort that would close kosher and halal slaugherhouses through a law that would ban killing an animal without stunning it first. Verrilli describ…

How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?

By Austin Dacey

…less immodest empirical claim that we cannot explain the embrace of dignity-and-rights language by mid-century elites without reference to a Catholic personalist intellectual movement of the 1930s and 1940s that located itself in opposition to communism and Enlightenment liberalism. Moyn emphasizes the impact of European figures such as Emmanuel Mounier, Jacques Maritain, and Pope Piux XII on the appearance of “human dignity” in national constitut…

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…rs in Santiago de Chile. The largest contingent of the weekend gathered in San Francisco, where more than 100 LDS people gathered to march behind the Mormons for Marriage Equality banner, winning the parade’s award for “Absolutely Outrageous” contingent. Mitch Mayne, who is openly gay and holds a leadership position in his San Francisco LDS congregation, offered an opening prayer for the group. “I felt prompted to ask our Father to bless us with t…

Why Did So Many Black Women Die? Jonestown at 35

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…the course of two decades the church would establish operations in Ukiah, San Francisco and Los Angeles before relocating the bulk of the congregation to Guyana in the late ‘70s, ostensibly to avoid government persecution for its radical views. About 75% of Peoples Temple members were African American, 20% were white and 5% were Asian, Latino and Native American. The majority of its black members were women, while its core leadership was predomin…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…ss groups. “…they want spiritual goods, but within the protective, customer-is-in-charge framework of commercial consumption.” Wilson, the Buddhism scholar, argues that this approach to spirituality serves a market in which people “want the benefits of religion, but not the downsides of religion.” “They want the meditation practice, on demand, to provide them with health, and peace, and calmness,” Wilson told The Cubit. “But they don’t want the su…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…ail to bolster political or economic demands (the sort of utilitarian “rent-a-collar” approach that is common in movement circles today), but rather political and economic demands that are made on the basis of a moral foundation. It will take wrenching change to transform today’s labor movement. It requires us to think about the labor movement as a moral force in society, not just an economic actor. One of the key lessons from Sea-Tac is that the…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…vanguard of fighting for special accommodations for specific groups. Women-only, black-only and LGBT-only spaces are a relevant parallel. Such spaces take into account the issues related to certain social identities (the personal) and advocate for a reshaping of the public square to accommodate it (the political). This requires some sacrifice of others. At the very least it means restricting their freedom by not allowing them to enter a certain f…

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…at a City & Arts Lectures event in San Francisco that perhaps the Commander-in-Chief was including Buddhists, who don’t always fit into traditionally theistic models of religion, among the “non-believers.” This might be true, but I’d like to advance a case for including Buddhists more explicitly in the Oval Office’s work with religious organizations and services. Admittedly, we Buddhists in America are few when compared with our sisters and brothe…

Cloud Atlas: This is Some Mystical S*%t

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ola Run play with repetition and simultaneity, inserting tags into the mise-en-scene that provide clues to the interconnections. Sometimes it’s for fun or simple coherence, while other times it is making a deeper point, as it does in Cloud Atlas. Critics of the film have noted that the individual narratives are not compelling unto themselves. Perhaps. But the point is that it’s all in the in-between, the movements and connections across people, pl…

How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…gious teaching. In other words, I can be excited at a football game by the San Francisco 49ers, and I can, with the same quality of energy, the same part of myself, be similarly excited by the Bible, or the teachings of Jesus, or Buddhism, or something of that kind. The object is different, but the actual emotion can be the same. You can even say, “I love hamburgers!” and then, “I love my child.” Is it the same emotional entity, only the object ha…