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America’s Savior: Lincolnolatry’s Hidden Cost

By Peter Laarman

…equals of whites. The redeeming thing about Lincoln (and it’s hard not to compare Lyndon Johnson’s odyssey 100 years later) is that at least he could be made to bend and made to grow in his understanding of the moral claims of others, notably of Black others. But possessing such an important redeeming quality is not the same as being The Redeemer, and the muddling of this difference is where our obsessive devotion to Lincoln (including Barack Oba…

Evangelicals Want Immigration Reform. Why Won’t Republicans Listen?

By Sarah Posner

…ress passing a comprehensive package is the lowest among religious groups (compared to “78 percent of the religiously unaffiliated, 76 percent of minority Protestants, 73 percent of white mainline Protestants, 72 percent of Catholics”) it, too, found a majority of white evangelicals (64%) support passage of a comprehensive package. According to the Lifeway poll, evangelical views of immigration remain conservative, with security trumping citizensh…

The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe

By Michael Schulson

…wouldn’t say that [creationism] is dramatic in Europe, of course. When you compare it to the United States, it’s very small and marginal. But you don’t have to have a lot of people. In Germany, there are not so many creationists, but they’re widely influential, they’re quite active. They are quite capable of making themselves heard. In the book, one contributor talks about the German state of Hesse, where a minister seemed to defend the teaching o…

How Indiana’s New RFRA Expands the Federal RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…began to see efforts to pass laws like the one Indiana enacted last week: Compare Indiana’s newly minted RFRA to the one assessed by the court in New Mexico. The Indiana RFRA departs from New Mexico’s RFRA and the federal RFRA—on which many other state laws are modeled. How? Indiana’s RFRA expressly provides that a person can assert a “claim or defense in a judicial or administrative proceeding, regardless of whether the state or any other govern…

About That “Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage”

By Sarah Posner

…isproportionately brutalized by law enforcement, these defenders of “life” compare the dehumanization of black people to some imagined infringement of their rights should gays and lesbians be granted the right to get married. “We will view any decision by the Supreme Court or any court the same way history views the Dred Scott,” the pledge reads, referring to the 1857 Supreme Court case holding that African Americans could not be citizens because…

Ben Carson’s Flat Tax Gets the Bible Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…roposal is based on biblical tithing is a “radical oversimplification in a number of ways,” says a tax lawyer and expert on the tithing concepts described in the Old Testament. Adam Chodorow, a professor of law at Arizona State University, has written extensively on whether flat tax proposals that purport to be based on the biblical system of tithing accurately reflect the systems described in the text—and, significantly, rabbinical interpretation…

Appeals Court Eviscerates Notre Dame’s Objections to Contraception Accommodation

By Patricia Miller

…word ’accommodation’ implies a balance of competing interests; and when we compare the burden on the government or third parties of having to establish some entirely new method of providing contraceptive coverage with the burden on Notre Dame of simply notifying the government that the ball is now in the government’s court, we cannot conclude that Notre Dame has yet established its right to the injunctive relief. Posner may have had the best word…

Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?

By Michael Schulson

…d then, with time, piece together a picture of the whole genome. Once they compare this reconstructed genome with that of the mammoth’s closest living relative, the elephant, geneticists can figure out the key ways the two differ. Then they can synthesize unique mammoth genes and begin inserting them into elephant embryos, making them more and more mammoth like. Why bother? It’s not just that mammoths are 100% whiz-bang awesome (although they are)…

Pro-Life Org Sued for Sexual Abuse During Exorcism

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…afe conditions, prescribed painkillers illegally, restrained patients against their will, and is now charged with eight counts of murder based on accusations that he killed babies delivered alive. Not that it’s worthwhile to compare the men’s actions—for how does one tally up and weigh reports which, if true, reveal such deep cruelty?—but rather the reactions. When is an ethical position undermined by abominable behavior of those who espouse it?…

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

By Sarah Posner

…les begin and end with Donald Trump. Not the Bible. Not God. Not Jesus. To compare the non-negotiable of Donald Trump’s ego with, say, divine infallibility or the trinity is a bit of an apostasy, is it not? What’s more, the “public ridicule” of Donald Trump is not because he is “speaking out so boldly.” It’s because he’s injected a narcissistic circus into the presidential campaign, kept alive only because he has more money than he knows what to d…