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New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…rican administration? Despite some American Jewish alienation from Israeli policy, backing for a bold new direction in the peace process is not entirely solid, a fact reflected in the same survey. 40% of respondents continue to support West Bank settlements, which, no matter how J Street chooses to spin it, is not an insignificant number. 75% supported the IDF operation in Gaza, though only 41% believe Israel is now more secure. And as for Iran, n…

More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ool prayer, and “every citizen’s right to apply religious values to public policy.” When the religious right, then, seeks to apply its views to public policy and law, the GOP listens. What Establishment Clause? The same is not true on the Democratic side, and it’s not, as is frequently asserted, because Democrats and liberals revile religion. It’s because (practically speaking) the Democratic base is far more religiously diverse than the Republica…

What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…from a public benefit solely because of their religious character… such a policy imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion that triggers the most exacting scrutiny.” The Court further held that Missouri’s stated reason for the policy—to avoid potential Establishment Clause violations—was insufficient. The Court’s opinion stands in stark opposition to earlier religious funding decisions, and especially its 2004 opinion in Locke v. Davey….

Newt’s Obama-Bashing Trinity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…to clean up. That is President Obama’s unfortunate and regrettable foreign policy starting-point. And American conservatism bears a great deal of the blame for this. Conservative foreign policy for too long has also been characterized by impatience, hasty judgments, and foot-in-mouth disesase. It is certainly a bit too early to write off the Obama foreign policy as Weakness 101. Give the man a year or two, and let’s see what happens in Cuba, in Ir…

LDS Church Praised for “Good Sense and Sanity” on Immigration Policy

By Joanna Brooks

…endorsed Utah Compact on immigration as a model of sane and compassionate policy making. Wrote the Times: “A clearer expression of good sense and sanity than Utah’s would be hard to find.” (Hooray!) Also this week, the LDS Church joined with leaders from the Catholic, Protestant, Sikh, Orthodox Jewish, Anglican, and other faiths in a statement entitled “The Protection of Marriage: A Shared Commitment,” a reiteration of belief that a heterosexual…

J Street: Mainstream on Foreign Policy, But Are the Rabbis Listening?

By Sarah Posner

…ay lobbying members of Congress, and the centerpiece of J Street’s foreign policy position, the two-state solution, is at the top of the agenda. Jones’ speech, in which he vigorously articulated the Obama administration’s support for J Street and a two-state solution, made the members of Congress who backed out of the conference host committee — reacting stupidly to fear-mongering by the right — look very silly. J Street is not, as its critics tri…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…ore Roman Catholic parish, CIS Fellow James R. Edwards Jr., and CIS Senior Policy Analyst Stephen Steinlight. Each presented a paper explicating scriptural and other religious teachings as they bear on immigration—from Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish viewpoints, respectively. The theme of all three papers was that leaders of all the mainstream religious groups are misinterpreting scripture and religious traditions when they issue policy statement…

Paul Ryan’s Bible, Jim Wallis’, Or None of the Above?

By Sarah Posner

…n social justice, the debate about the role of government should rooted in policy, not theology. As Peter Laarman has noted in these pages, in support of a robust defense of government, liberal and moderate Christian leaders “know in their heart of hearts that only government can take strong and decisive action to end poverty and mass suffering, but they are in some degree of denial about it, in part because. . . . They, too, rather fancy the idea…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…d its lack of resolution, FWI is aggressively resisting United Nations and United States policy regarding homosexuality. In January, FWI hosted 26 UN staffers from 23 different countries for a two-day conference on how to resist UN initiatives on sexuality. The conference was co-hosted with the Foundation for African Cultural Heritage, a group that is linked with the WCF. The only supporter listed on FACH’s website is Don Feder, the communications…

The Islamophobia Election: How “Muslim” Became a Racial Identity

By Michael Schulson

…and examine—is there racial bias in these policies? Stop and frisk in the United States. Mass incarceration in the United States, where race is really the factor. I’m trying to argue the same thing, that targeting Muslims as terrorists in this country has been really problematic, rather than looking to the root causes that underly terrorism. The scary thing is we don’t know what the trajectory could be for Muslims. Before 9/11, the idea that ther…