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It Depends What You Mean By “Religious”: Latest Poll Says More About Us Than Candidates
…n, however, there are two significant outliers who don’t fit this picture—Trump and Sanders. Donald Trump gets by far the lowest “religiousness” ratings, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for him—even among evangelicals. Fewer than half (44%) of Republicans in the survey think he’s somewhat or very religious. For every other Republican candidate, people who think that don’t think that person would be a great president. But almost a third (30%)…
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The “Spaghetti Dinner” Clause That Launched The Latest Religious Freedom Suit
…he Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD). Despite ADF’s renewed outrage, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has, for the past 15 years, held that denial of service or refusal to grant equal access to transgender people is sex-based discrimination. Since 2012, the state has explicitly prohibited gender-identity-based discrimination in employment, housing, lending, credit and mortgage services. These policies hew cl…
Read MoreThe Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’
…ous cultural variations and scriptural interpretations can be reduced to ‘true’ and ‘not true’ forms. And it’s entirely possible that echoing the Christian right’s claims to represent a true Christianity only winds up bolstering such claims. If the “religious left” is to be a vital force in the current landscape, it should resist such framing. The future of liberal Christianity and the religious left more generally won’t be found with the Gagas an…
Read MoreThe Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]
…choolchildren. But pious wave is no coincidence, these laws are part of a crusade to rewrite American history and the American identity. They were spawned by Project Blitz, a Christian nationalist crusade that seeks to redefine what it means to be an American—so that to be an American is to be a Christian and to be a Christian is to be an American—and then to rewrite the law accordingly. Project Blitz’s goal is to favor Christians, creating a spec…
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In Latest Round of LGBTQ Discrimination Cases Before SCOTUS, Religion Is ‘The Elephant in the Room’
…or transgender. These disputes, involving a gay skydiving instructor from New York, a gay county employee from Georgia, and a trans funeral home director from Michigan, turn on the interpretation of a provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law provides that employers may not discriminate “because of” an employee’s or prospective employee’s “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” The fired employees are arguing that…
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COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem
…he went quite far. His preaching included a strident sexual morality, end-times prophecies and truly outrageous antisemitism. Elder Ephraim regularly made mention of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated antisemitic text (first published in Russia, by the way) that’s grabbed the attention of everyone from Henry Ford to those who wrote the Nazi German school curiculum. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese routinely denied Ephraim’s antisemit…
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High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death
…inundated with death counts occupying the top right corner of almost every news screen. It reminds me of listening, as a young adolescent, to the nightly news in the early 1970s as the anchor duly reported the number of US soldiers killed in Vietnam. After a while we became numb to the numbers. We bantered during the reportage, or got up to get a drink, either because we couldn’t bear to hear it, or because it became meaningless. Numbers are the e…
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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
…f and not notice that, in their desperation to “make America great again” Trump, Pence, and the other Christian nationalist politicians and judges have turned this simple founding American principle on its head. Instead of guaranteeing free exercise for everyone, they’ve sought to privilege one particular strain of conservative Christianity at the expense of everyone else. They’ve perverted this historic protection, fashioning this shield into a c…
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Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
…urish through the revitalized culture wars rhetoric that has taken on transnational dimensions. Christian Nationalism is now used as an identifier by politicians wanting to unite church and state. Panic over school curricula and books have led to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Historically conservative churches, such as the Orthodox Church, are seeing an increase in radical traditionalists converting to the faith and bringing with them dangerous,…
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