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The Cynical Use of “Freedom of Religion”

By Kate Childs Graham

…gious Freedom a Right, or Just Another Card to be Played? When they claim that freedom of religion trumps all other rights—like the right to safety, the right to education, the right to equality in the workplace, and so on—religious groups are assuming a hierarchy of rights that simply does not exist anywhere in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without dis…

Rebuilding the Wall of Separation: A Progressive Discussion on Church & State

By Bruce Ledewitz

…es its poor or its neighbors, it will fall just as surely as did Babylon. That is what we should think about today. Now, despite its religious saturation and its old-style preaching rhythm, this prayer would not be unconstitutional no matter how secular the public square must be. But that just shows the emptiness of the secular proposal. For God is often a shorthand expression for sentiments just like these. That is, the prophetic tradition. If th…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…th care in the United States. Boudway writes: Imagine a large institution that provides free meals to the poor, and imagine that the institution is run by Jains, who are vegetarians. None of the meals offered by this institution include meat, though many of the people to whom the meals are offered are neither Jains nor non-Jainist vegetarians. Now imagine that the federal government (never mind under which agency) issues a rule that requires any o…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cted. I hear one of them is seeking for a higher office. Elect only those that promote good Christians values because voting people tainted with such dirty money may bring a curse on our country,” Archbishop Ntagali said. Matthew Davies at the Episcopal News Service writes that Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, addressed the primates before the January 14 vote, saying in part: “Our commitment to be an inclusive church is not…

Carrie Prejean, God’s Prophet or Porn Star?

By Paula M. Cooey

…Of course, each citizen has guaranteed rights to religious expression and free speech, but what are the implications of what we express in terms of what we actually practice? And how do our practices affect one another? In the last analysis, this is a matter of bad theology and cultural hypocrisy leading to bad ethics. Regarding cultural hypocrisy, Carrie Prejean had breast implant surgery just weeks before the pageant, bought and paid for by the…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…ogy in March has earned him an entire issue of the Church of Scientology’s Freedom magazine. The issue is dedicated to attacking him and his claims about the church. A Moscow court convicted two art curators of “inciting hatred” against Christians for their 2007 exhibition of various controversial pieces, including an image of Jesus with a Mickey Mouse head. Convicted serial killer David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, has found religion in pr…

New York City a Glenn Beck Radio Free Zone (for now)

By Joanna Brooks

…es, at least momentarily, the boroughs of New York City a Glenn Beck radio free zone. (Word has it syndicators are looking for a new outlet.) Perhaps Beck’s self-styled turn to the prophetic last summer and fall—which included forays into the world of Black theology and the mysteries of the Bat Creek Stone, as well as his lachrymose and prayer-scented DC Rally in August —didn’t go over so well with hardboiled conservatives in the City? Beck’s tel…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…f Attorney at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project, “we do not believe that that most of what CPCs do—counsel to women to convince them to carry to term rather than have an abortion—is in line with what is required by TANF,” which includes, among other things, preventing and reducing the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies. The TPCN website claims to subject its subcontractors to a rigorous selection process. But when I sought documents re…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…eedom vs. virtue. In fact, in chapter 4 of Creating Conservatism, I argue that what is an inevitable collision between freedom and virtue as co-equal philosophical values, affords conservatives who find comfort in or look past this tension a range of argumentative resources. In brief, this collision allows for a more robust and philosophically diverse movement. A few quick illustrations should help demystify this potentially esoteric point. In 200…

Destruction, Or, Why Do Fundamentalists Seem To Enjoy Blowing Things Up?

By Daniel Schultz

…igation than to discern in whose image we have been made. I would suggest that that image is continuous not just with the people who fashioned the original Buddhas at Bamiyan, but with the ecosystems damaged by oil spills. But Brueggemann’s views have implications not just for the created order, but the social: Our sociology is predictably derived from, legitimated by, and reflective of our theology. And if we gather around the static god of order…