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What the Danish Cartoon Controversy Tells Us About Religion, the Secular, and the Limits of the Law

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…ence, the nature of belief, the secularization of the biblical injunction that the truth will make you free, the class prejudices built in to blasphemy prosecutions in England, and the heroic nature of secular criticism. Most surprising, perhaps, for many, will be his explanation of the legal status of belief in Islam. Asad says that individual belief is understood in Muslim law to be fundamentally inscrutable and that its coercion is always thoug…

Are Kosher Delis Like Catholic Hospitals?

By Sarah Posner

…e Parable of the Kosher Deli. Once upon a time, a new law was proposed so that any business that serves food must serve pork. There is a narrow exception for kosher catering halls attached to synagogues since they serve mostly members of that synagogue, but kosher delicatessens are still subject to the mandate. The Orthodox Jewish community, whose members run kosher delis and many other restaurants and groceries besides expresses its outrage at th…

Not All Choice is Free

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s to universities, and two Catholic presidential candidates all insist on what that poor guy from North Carolina was asking for: a religious exemption from paying for state services to which he was opposed on moral and religious grounds. The state’s answer was simple in the spring of 1985: you don’t get to pick and choose the services you pay for, regardless of the reason. This case raises an issue of considerably sharper interest, I think, given…

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

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…ir faith, even for secular jobs such as janitorial work. The plaintiff in that case argued that while the exemption was justified for employees with religious duties, it was unconstitutional when applied to employees with purely secular jobs. The Court disagreed, finding that creating such a constitutional line would be untenable. It held, “It is a significant burden on a religious organization to require it, on pain of substantial liability, to p…

On Religion, Abortion, and Politics: Dr. George Tiller’s Christian Ethics

By Ed Knudson

…and hatred by those who attacked him on a daily basis outside his clinic. Free From All, Free For All One of Luther’s most popular writings is his pamphlet called “The Freedom of a Christian,” in which he declares that a Christian is free from all earthly authority through the power of the gospel, which establishes a reconciled relationship with God—a quite subversive political orientation since it relativizes all earthly authority. At the same t…

Mercy, Justice, and the Telephone Company

By Daniel Schultz

…nts out, the less government you have, the less able you are to keep all of those identities separate. All of which comes down to one thing: the people who are defending American borders most vociferously are ironically furthering the aims of a system that produces that which they most hate and fear. It’s the American way of life, as it has been built, that brings illegals into its national borders and then spits them out of its society. You don’t…

303 Creative Is Not a ‘Religion v. Gay Rights’ Case — But Here’s Why the Christian Right is Happy with the Media Suggesting Just That

By Heron Greenesmith

…act: whether Smith had a right, as an artist, to be free from being told what—or what not—to say by the state of Colorado. Smith argues that she’s a wedding artist and that if she’s required to offer wedding website templates to same-sex couples, Colorado would be forcing her to “speak” under the First Amendment, against her will. Now, ADF and Smith and the conservative justices all have a strong interest in framing the national conversation arou…

The Bad Religion at the Heart of GOP Healthcare Policy

By Peter Laarman

…rights” has an obvious and nasty racial history. It was hardly surprising that most of the states that refused to expand Medicaid or adopt exchanges represent the Old Confederacy and the Wild West. We might breathe a momentary sigh of relief that the destruction of Obamacare is temporarily halted. But we had better brace ourselves for the next attack on the social contract. In fact, the very idea of any kind of social contract is anathema to these…

“Mitt Romney Style”—A Virtually Religion Free 2012 Contest?

By Joanna Brooks

…in which the role of religion was decidedly understated—despite the fact that Romney belongs to a faith that is widely misperceived and somewhat disliked and despite the fact that many Mormons have been bracing for his candidacy to turn unwelcome attention to sensitive aspects of the faith. There were, of course, heated moments in the primaries, as evangelical Christian voters and their favored candidates stepped around the issue of whether or no…

The Tebow Superbowl Ad: Offense, Defense, or Interference?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…trage it did because it was perceived to be an act of sacrilege within the free-floating social sacred that is the Super Bowl. So long as the religion is non-sectarian, non-denominational, devoid of anything other than marketing content (and not too nude) it is free to be aired at the Super Bowl. That is one reason why the American viewing public seems prepared to stomach Super Bowl advertisements that offend any number of other ethical sensibilit…