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It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

By Patricia Miller

…Feinstein was asking a fair question about how the execution of Barrett’s religious beliefs would comport with her duties as a judge—a question that Barrett herself had raised, albeit in an article written some years ago. Barrett assured the committee that she believed it was never permissible for judges to “follow their personal convictions in the decision of a case, rather than what the law requires.” But the reaction to Feinstein’s questioning,…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…ed on December 10, Human Rights Day. The IHEU report observes that while relatively few countries around the world criminalize irreligion as such, many impose arbitrary burdens on secular manifestations of conscience that are not experienced by others. These include laws and policies regulating: • apostasy and religious conversion; • blasphemy and religious criticism; • compulsory religious registration, usually with a government proscribed list…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…d up and fight for gay rights, they’re the real heroes,” Nate says. Nate Phelps tells the story of one young man who “got caught up in the spellbinding rhetoric they spew on their videos. The old man is so certain in his presentation that he draws people in,” Nate says. “This kid started freaking out, he was afraid, wondering if he was going to burn in Hell for eternity. Then he found my Web site and said it saved his life because he was to the po…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…etter-funded) campaign to roll back recent progressive legal gains. “Sincerely held religious belief” remains a sacred term within this movement—and is unleashed most viciously in opposition to LGBT equality, whether that’s marriage equality, equal access for transgender people, or the right not to be fired for who you are. The right-wing legal powerhouse Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is forthright about which particular religion’s freedom it l…

Carrie Prejean, God’s Prophet or Porn Star?

By Paula M. Cooey

…because you never know what happened to ’em.” We project gods, secular as well as religious, that bear remarkable resemblances to ourselves and proceed to absolutize our most cherished values as universal, binding to all, whether they share those values or not. We proceed to act accordingly in their name, punishing those who resist. Thus, our gods say much about who we are, what we hold dear, what we dream for the future. I think the exasperated r…

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…real possibility that Moore could win a second term in the Senate would likely amount to a lifelong appointment. His Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, is a former federal prosecutor with notable accomplishments to his name, including convicting the white supremacists who bombed a Birmingham church in 1963, but he has never run a political campaign and the national arm of the Democratic party has largely left its red-state candidates to fend for the…

Trump’s Nominee to Fill RBG’s Seat Is Unfit. By Definition.

By Andrew L. Seidel

…on year. When Justice Scalia died 269 days before the 2016 election, McConnell immediately announced, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” His ilk agreed. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appears on Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist and sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 2016 he said, “It has been 80 years since a Sup…

GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…as technophobes. In the United States, GM foods remain largely—if not entirely—unlabeled in supermarkets, making it nearly impossible to determine the scientific or man-made origins of your food. Then again, it’s usually safe to assume that non-organic products contain traces of genetically modified corn or soybeans. As of July 2009, the USDA reported that over eighty percent of corn, soybean, and cotton planted areas contain genetically modified…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…tal change in the Church. “It seems to me that the Vatican don’t actually believe in God at all. They’re certainly not acting like they believe in a God that watches. A Christian is supposed to ask ‘What would Jesus do?’ and try to do it. Would Jesus have covered up for decades all of this abuse?” Like many others, O’Connor has chosen not to leave the church but to work for change. Her most dramatic call for change came in 1992 when she tore up a…

Religious and Political Silence on India’s LGBTQ Decision Speaks Volumes

By Andrea R. Jain

…ould overturn in 2013. I happened to be in India that day and remember the elated celebrants contrasted with the force of the pushback exploding into the public domain, resulting in an almost decade-long legal battle. The Delhi High Court’s decision was groundbreaking not only in its recognition of LGBTQ rights, but also in the resistance it engendered from religious activists, especially right-wing Hindus who deployed a homophobic rhetoric of men…