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Jeb! Reboot Includes Religious Liberty Effort

By Patricia Miller

…ding intimate discussions with religious liberty martyrs. Many of the most high-profile figures on the commission actually date back to the administration of he-who-shall-not-be named: George W. Bush. Glendon Nicholson, and Francis Rooney, were all ambassadors to the Holy See during the Bush administration, while Towey was the head of Bush’s faith-based office. Jane Abraham’s husband Spencer Abraham was Bush’s Secretary of Energy. And it was Nicho…

Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ks anti-LGBT trend in country The local assembly of Budapest adopted a five-year equality program that for the first time identifies sexual and gender minorities as a target group. According to the Hungarian LGBT Alliance, “The program was adopted amidst high level of political homophobia and transphobia in Hungary.” “We were pleasantly surprised with the turn of events” says Tamás Dombos, board member of the Hungarian LGBT Alliance. “Budapest is…

Israel Claims Holy Sites, Reignites Religious Flashpoint

By Orly Halpern

…en one here. They’re not allowed. This is a Jewish place.” Ori Landau, a 21-year-old student from Hadera, said she prefers praying at Rachel’s Tomb over the Wailing Wall. “It’s a place you know you are being heard,” she said, adding, “it’s easier through someone else.” An ultra-Orthodox man dressed in black selling souvenir prayer booklets at the tomb entrance said he heard that, before his mother was born, “Jews prayed in the room with the tomb a…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…g that people think Francis is a big change for the better. But that’s self-evident. What I found really interesting is that only a quarter of Catholics say they feel more excited about their faith and that no more are going to church than during Benedict’s papacy. In Gallicho’s words it takes “nerve” to point this out. But these numbers are key because they’re about Catholics’ relationship to and practice of their faith, which is the heart of the…

Kenneth Starr in the “Athens of Texas”

By Randall Balmer

…knowledge” at the university. What if the pursuit of knowledge entails stem-cell research or leads to the conclusion (gasp!) that evolution is the most satisfactory explanation of human origins? What if a member of the religion department or the divinity school faculty notices that Jesus really had little or nothing to say about homosexuality or that Paul’s statement that in Christ there is no distinction between Jew or Greek, slave or free, male…

Christian Schools International v. University of California

By Lauri Lebo

…constitutional rights of Christian students applicants. Michael Behe – a Lehigh University biochemistry professor who testified in Kitzmiller v. Dover in support of intelligent design – submitted an expert report in defense of the science textbooks. In Aug. 2008, a federal district judge granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and the case did not go to trial. Plaintiffs responded by filing an appeal arguing that the school system’s po…

Check Your Caller ID, Jesus Is Calling

By Sarah Posner

…hose in need, or heaven forbid, a rethinking of our military escapades. He complained bitterly that those church-state separation meanies were preventing him from preaching the Gospel desperate servicemembers. “I’m not talking about proselytizing,” he said, “I’m taking about gently whispering the Bible.” He proudly boasted of “crossing that line”—i.e., church-state separation—”so many times.” He got a standing ovation. Keynote speaker Pastor Greg…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…lains some of the white Catholic “movement” away from Trump, especially vis-à-vis the evangelical vote. As a group, Catholics are both better educated and financially more well-off than evangelicals. But a deeper dive into some of the polling around the “Catholic vote” does suggest there is indeed something interesting afoot that counters recent electoral alignment trends. As FiveThirtyEight reported earlier this year, “Catholics who attend Mass w…

Why is the Pope Popular Among Nones?

By Kaya Oakes

…ntinue to unfold, Pope Francis is more popular than ever in America. Pew Research Center’s latest analysis reveals that seven in ten Americans hold a favorable view of him, while 11% have no opinion. Where these numbers begin to get interesting is in religious breakdown. American Catholics appear to be very fond of the pope, with 87% expressing a favorable view of him, but among white evangelicals his ratings are not so high—only 53% favor the pop…

Prayer vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton (WBBJ TV)

No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…ed, more deep trauma inflicted, but with the same shitty debate over prayer-vs-action and same despair over the potential for action being recycled. There are some differences, of course. Rather than the NRA paying $3 million to elect a senator from Iowa, we now have a president elected with $30 million NRA dollars, and who perhaps not coincidentally “feels closer to the NRA than just about any outside group.” And instead of a Congress debating, h…