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Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law

By Andrew L. Seidel

…d synthesized more than a century of precedent to arrive at a simple legal test known as the Lemon test. This was strong precedent, older than Roe v. Wade and issued in an 8–1 decision built on all the Court’s earlier cases. Like Roe, this precedent has been a target of the conservative legal crusade. Not because it was bad or ahistorical or somehow wrong, but because it prevented the dominant religious group in this country from using the machine…

Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

By Henry Jenkins

…n’t play any more if you lose. I am also struggling a little with her male companion’s comment that New Cap City is “lawless,” since after all, the nature of games is to be rule-driven. He may not fully understand the rules of the game he is playing and the rules may not allign with those in the real world, but if it is a game, especially one which can be won or lost, there are rules. In some ways, that’s the nature of the digital game more genera…

Rebuilding the Wall of Separation: A Progressive Discussion on Church & State

By Bruce Ledewitz

…e, and there always have been. The false frame breaks down in light of the compelling evidence of facts. As for the wall of separation of church and state as an authoritative way of discussing the establishment clause of the First Amendment—yes, let’s keep the wall high and strong. As Sandra Day O’Connor put it: “Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a sys…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…ay use supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner, as permitted by the city, parish, or other local public school board unless otherwise prohibited by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.” Which appears to give school districts a lot of room to introduce creationist texts. Yes, Disingenuous Last month, the Livingsto…

Pew: Atheists and Agnostics Best Informed on Religion

By Lauri Lebo

…eaching and preaching.” But back to the subject of atheists and agnostics being better informed on religious issues in general, Goodstein goes on to quote David Silverman of the advocacy group American Atheists. “I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people,” Mr. Silverman said. “Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That’s how you make atheists.” Si…

Salvation, Purity, and Right Wing Activism: A Sampling of What Taxpayers Will Be Forced to Support as a Result of Carson v. Makin SCOTUS Ruling

By Chrissy Stroop

…of the egregious wrongs that you, the taxpayer, would still be funding: Students being required to provide a Christian “testimony” about our conversion experiences in order to gain admission. Purity culture. Did you know: Fun (alternative) fact! Anything remotely sexual we did with a boyfriend or girlfriend we didn’t eventually marry constituted cheating on each other’s future spouses. Weekly (and sometimes more frequent) mandatory chapel services…

“Taking a Stand for Jesus” in the Public Schools

By Lauri Lebo

…and up for him?” Buckingham’s famous remark, about which he later lied and denied saying at a public meeting before about 100 people, became one of the key issues in the Kitzmiller v. Dover constitutional test case of intelligent design. The statement made clear his religiously-based motivation—a constitutional no no. For those who don’t remember how the trial ended, refresh your memory here. (Hint: Didn’t go well for the intelligent design/creati…

Religious Right Claims Heterosexual Marriage is a Requirement for Statehood

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a law to normalize heterosexual monogamous marriage, or enact some “litmus test” for statehood. That was not the point. In addition to the Morrill Act, other key developments include the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Reynolds v. the United States in 1879 and the Edmunds Act of 1882, which made polygamy a felony by federal statute and revoked polygamists’ right to vote. Again, these moves, especially the decision in Reynolds, were mainly concern…

The Tea Party Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…ident of the Southern Baptist Convention and now the head of its executive committee, and one of President Obama’s first appointees to the Advisory Council to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships). The country “cannot be successful without a fundamental Judeo-Christian framework,” said Kimbrell, lamenting that the government “has not been guided by Judeo-Christian principles.” Business leaders understand, he said, that those pri…

Walt Whitman’s Sacred Democracy

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Bill of Rights. That was the great achievement in the late 1700s. That foundation was sorely tested by the Civil War, true, but in Whitman’s eyes, the nation passed the test, and thereby unwittingly set the stage for it is own fairly sudden explosion in material prosperity. That was the nation’s great achievement of the late 1800s, when Whitman offered up his glimpse of the Vistas. But the nation’s material success was simply further foundation…