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Bishops Have No Religious Freedom Claim

By Sarah Posner

…hat these laws did not violate the Catholics’ — or any religious group’s — free exercise of religion, that in order for a law to violate somebody’s free exercise, it has to impinge — substantially burden — their religious practice. And there is no substantial burden on Catholics’ religious practice by providing coverage — insurance coverage for contraception for other people. No one is making Catholics who do not want contraception to take it. No…

What the USCCB’s New “Religious Liberty” Initiative Took from Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

…that “We see in our culture a drive to neuter religion,” adding that “well-financed, well-oiled sectors” were trying “to push religion back into the sacristy.” Ah, the unnamed well-financed, well-oiled sectors. Who are they? Dolan, whose USCCB had an operating revenue in excess of $220 million last year, according to an audited financial statement, and who garnered an off-the record meeting with the president of the United States to discuss his r…

The GOP’s Race to the
Dark Ages

By Sarah Posner

…he Affordable Care Act that their health insurance provide employees co-pay-free birth control, even though churches themselves are already exempt. A Catholic and an evangelical university have sued HHS over the rule, citing “religious liberty.” Republicans have been making their intentions on access to birth control clear since they began campaigning to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood. They say it’s about federal funding going to abortio…

Rev. Raphael Warnock Tweets ‘I am a pro-choice pastor’ and Suddenly a Public Figure’s Religion is Fair Game

By John Stoehr

…religious defense—a liberal and conservative religious defense. The former comes from the African-American church, where most people actually oppose abortion. However, they do not, and will not, take a position by which they are seen to be telling Black women what to do with their bodies. Black history is a history of state claims on Black bodies. The Black church, I think, is manifesting the moral equality at the center of Christ’s Sermon on the…

Did the “Science Guy” Bill Nye Single-Handedly Revive Noah’s Ark Theme Park?

By Mike Greer

…Las Vegas. What did Ken Ham get out of the deal? Ham has admitted that the high-profile evolution debate he had with Nye in February revived his floundering Ark project. Aside from the undisclosed financial returns from the debate itself Ham has gathered in $60+ million from wealthy donors who were motivated by the spectacle to invest in the Ark Encounter project in northern Kentucky. When asked, Nye brushes off questions about whether he may righ…

Overcoming Good Muslim/Bad Muslim Dichotomy

By Hussein Rashid

…-cap: 1. The AMC had a series of op-eds and a big ad buy. 2. The way the op-eds and website were argued implied that the AMC were good Muslims and the rest of the community was bad because of certain markers defined by these pieces. 3. The logical conclusion of such a construction is that there is a power-play involved. You will note that I never, in my piece, make categorical accusations. I cannot speak to the intentionality of the pieces, but on…

Progressive v. Conservative Religion Writers

By The Editors

…House taken it over? And what of President Obama’s vaunted Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships? In the latest installment of RD’s collaboration with bloggingheads.tv, associate editor Sarah Posner talks religion and politics with Get Religion’s Mollie Ziegler Hemingway. They don’t exactly agree on the politics of the Democrats’ efforts to reach “people of faith,” and they definitely don’t agree on the question of whether LGBT righ…

Engle Supports “Principled Stand” of Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill Promoters

By Sarah Posner

…n that does not want it. Reiterating his U.N.-brought-the-homosexual-agenda-to-Uganda theme, Engle added: [B]ecause UNICEF and UN were promoting their agenda in the place and there were cases taking place but there was no law, there was no laws, so there could be no restraint and no punishment for that. Because of that, as I understood it, was one of the reasons they wanted to bring forth this — a bill so that they could bring an answer to that ki…

A State Without a Mexican

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…hed in restaurants, agriculture and construction are at a standstill. Who knew this satiric comedy would be so prophetic? In the past few days I have had a strong desire to send this film to Governor Jan Brewer, a governor who was not elected by her own state but instead slipped into power after Janet Napolitano became Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security. On their website, filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi state that their film was in…

Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia

By Anthea Butler

…rage heterosexual marriage, abstinence, and patriarchal norms. It is an all-encompassing message that is obsessed with the suppression of sexuality in black churches, mega-churches and storefronts alike. The core issue however is “respectability.” The obsession with mainline and black prosperity churches to show well groomed African Americans as prosperous, good, heterosexual Christians has gutted the social justice message of urban black churches…