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White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…verage, or how it would be paid for if women were to get the coverage cost-free. Another question that arose on the call was what would happen if the insurance company claimed it had a religious objection to providing the coverage—a question administration officials did not have an answer for. “We’re taking some comfort from the fact that the White House didn’t completely cave in but there’s a lot of concern that whether women in Catholic-controll…

All the Belly-‘eich’-ing

By Sarah Posner

…l orientation in public accommodations, did not violate the photographer’s Free Speech or Free Exercise rights, nor did it violate the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The photographers sought review from the United States Supreme Court on one issue: whether the state human rights law violated their free speech rights. They did not seek review on the other questions. The New Mexico Supreme Court is the court of last resort on the questio…

Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed

By Julie Ingersoll

…’ shall be imposed on the people of these United States. We support a debt-free, interest-free money system.” Congressional Tea Partiers Vow to Challenge the Fed Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Fed, which passed the House earlier this year but didn’t become law, is expected to be even more popular in the incoming Congress. There’s even speculation that the House Republicans might mount a challenge to the whole system, and Rand Paul is promising to jo…

The Uncertain Post-Obergefell World of Religious Exemptions

By Sarah Posner

…erks, their employees, judges, and justices of the peace “retain religious freedoms that may allow accommodation of their religious objections to issuing same-sex marriage licenses.” The attorney general in South Dakota is making a similar effort as well. But states endeavoring to block same-sex couples from obtaining licenses should draw a lesson from Alabama: together with other civil liberties groups, AU successfully represented same-sex couple…

Glenn Beck’s Political Theology

By Daniel Schultz

…God who guarantees an unchanging social order. I’ve written before about what results: That framework inevitably supports the powers-that-be. In his book The Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann draws a connection between what he calls “the religion of static triumphalism” and “the politics of oppression and exploitation.” He gives Exodus an analysis of power: Karl Marx had discerned the connection [mentioned above] when he observed that the…

$50 Billion Fundamentalist Free Fall

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…that the recipient personally had some sort of Social Security “account” that he or she could “manage.” It isn’t quite like that anymore than Madoff’s investors’ money was simply theirs, available to them whenever they needed it. The second worry was more predictable and more timely. The idea was just too risky. The Bush proposal hinged on his limitless confidence in the stock market’s ability to rise. The fundamental rule of capital—that higher…

Mad Men’s Matt Weiner, Warrior Against Woo

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…s change, and the clichéd word turbulence, and free love, and things like that. But there’s free love in the 1920s; there’s free love in the 1930s; the beatnik movement in the 1950s. No one invented any of this. What was different in the 60s, according to Weiner, was that baby boomers were spoiled: plenty of education, money, entertainment; there was a war, but you could get out of it if you were lucky. This vision of unprecedented opportunity str…

A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…that isn’t the law’s goal. The goal is to silence Westboro Baptists, and that targeted effort is what may doom the law. Still, warns legal scholar Christina Wells of the University of Missouri-Columbia, who has followed the development of the legislation extensively, “This Court is a bit unpredictable… and cases involving offensive speech almost always involve closely divided opinions.” Other questions remain, though. If this law is in conflict w…

There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

By Austin Dacey

…eyond the jokey “church”—questions with which every society must grapple: What is religious freedom? Does it entitle some people to special protection under the law, and if so, which people? We can persist in drawing increasingly arbitrary lines between Rastafarian and Pastafarian, between the Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist and the Church of Scientology, or we can join the few pioneering scholars of religion and the law who have found another w…

Taking It to the Streets: Anonymous vs. Scientology

By Gabriel Mckee

…its interactions with members of society; broadly speaking, it is assumed that people ‘know’ what goes on in a ‘cult.’” Anonymous is interested in making the truth about Scientology known to the public, but branding the organization as a “cult” may actually limit that effort. People “know” what goes on in a cult—but much of what goes on in Scientology may be far stranger, particularly given the Church’s international reach and corporate infrastruc…