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The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…ness. Did she aspire to be “White” and did that shape her early career and policy making? Important questions, one would think. Does she have rhythm? Debatable. Does she over-hype a Blackness that some might think is, well, ‘overhyped’ given that she kind of claps on 1 and 3? Possibly. Discussions around aligning with Whiteness for power would yield a much more interesting and honest critique than accusing this woman of not being Black. And of cou…

Satanists Take Aim at School Spanking

By Joseph Laycock

…lected to be spanked rather than serve an in-school suspension. But school policy was that students could only be spanked by employees of the same sex. So superintendent Michael Kelley had the school board revise the policy so that male teachers can paddle female students. (Other reforms included requiring a same-sex staff member to be present during punishment and a maximum of one parent-requested paddling per semester). Satanic Temple spokespers…

Is Christianity Greening? Depends On Who (and How) You Ask

By Daniel Schultz

…oesn’t make those distinctions). Nor could the data provide answers about “policy preferences or personal behavior,” or about why the “greening of the church” might have stalled out. The most we can say based on this analysis is that the general trend of Christian concern for the environment has been flat or even in decline since 1990. Yonat Shimron of Religion News Service examines a few possible explanations. It could be “pushback” on long-term…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…n. It also specifically calls for making both our domestic and our foreign policy reflect what some refer to as “traditional family values.” But here the interpretation of those family values is kind of a fringe religious position. In law, it not only reflects what some people call “originalism,” but it reflects more and more another theocratic interpretation of law. A lot of the laws now being challenged in court focus not only on things like abo…

How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…ng, until it starts having consequential and problematic effects on public policy—until it starts dictating our foreign policy toward Israel or our response to climate change or our public school curricula, for instance. At that point, when clear principles of science are denied, or when important political leaders are making official decisions according to their belief in the imminent return of Christ—that’s when problems arise. And I do think th…

October “Baby” is a Grown Woman

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…espect, but a kind of indulgent kindness. Well, okay. In the real world of policy, poverty, pregnancy complications, and domestic violence are often important factors too. But never mind that. Just look at the sad, beautiful, fragile women in need of forgiveness. October Baby’s usefulness for understanding reproductive health policy is akin to Sleeping Beauty’s usefulness for understanding anesthesia protocols: Limited. But it’s a pretty story, in…

Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis

By Sarah Posner

…support—frequently described as biblically mandated love—in political and policy terms, such as opposing a nuclear deal with Iran or negotiations with the Palestinians. (Or, more recently, supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to a joint session of Congress.) But at church, on religious television, in books, and at religious conferences, this love for Israel and Jews is unabashedly presented as biblical prophecy come to l…

Mormon Leader: Religious Freedom Under Attack by Gay Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…tening the legal penalization of religious viewpoints on matters of public policy. One LDS RD reader wrote to observe that just the day before Oaks’ speech, on February 3, a gay-rights activist invited by students to visit BYU had his tires slashed while parked in the lot of BYU’s Law School. A painful juxtaposition, especially inasmuch as the tire-slashing incident has made the news in Salt Lake City, but has not yet been acknowledged by the camp…

Party of Religious Liberty Botches Debate on Religion and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…by another kind of fear. Last night’s debate, which was focused on foreign policy, further revealed the Republican field’s selective use of both the First Amendment, and, in a brief and probably since-forgotten moment, the Bible. Fear of Muslims, and a rejection of First Amendment protections for Islam, ran through both the undercard and main debate to varying degrees. In the undercard debate, three of the four candidates openly supported surveill…

Opposing Anti-Choice Legislation Isn’t a Violation of Religious Freedom, It’s an Expression of It

By Rebecca Todd Peters

…igious freedom issue and that to claim otherwise would “[mean] that public policy positions that are driven by religion are off the table while stances driven by secular reasons are legitimate.” This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the religious freedom issue at stake in the abortion debate. No serious person is claiming that religious people shouldn’t be allowed to pursue public policy that reflects their religious beliefs. There are all sor…