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Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…d text, appropriate respect for Supreme Court precedents, and for religious, gender, and other minorities who are facing the power of the state.” During questioning, Brownback agreed with Alito that both men would “rather have a robust public square than a naked public square;” and that there was room for public displays of religious iconography on public or government property. None of that history provides any indication that Brownback has an in…

Pussy Prophets & Nuns on Buses: Will Feminist Politics Get More Holy & Foolish?

By Beatrice Marovich

…an a battle-axe-like tool of resistance. In Feminism’s New Age (SUNY Press, 2011), Karlyn Crowley unpacks the ambivalent role that religion and spirituality have played in feminist politics, tracing the genealogy of antipathy—in the context of North American feminist history, especially white feminism—toward religion and spirituality. She’s particularly interested in the fate of what’s sometimes called “feminist spirituality,” an umbrella term th…

Religious Leaders Press Obama for Exemption from Executive Order Barring Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…ght be applicable to closely-held corporations as well. On the hiring issue, too, Obama has deferred to the demands of religious non-profits, reneging on a campaign promise to end hiring discrimination by religious non-profits that receive federal funding to carry out their charitable activities. That reversal came under pressure from religious leaders who wanted that exemption — rooted in a 2007 Bush administration Justice Department memo — to re…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…Reports program titled “Christian Soldiers,” (originally aired on October 2, 2007), which features Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF and Stephen Mansfield. “When his last book, Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America … and What’s Happened Since, came out last summer,” Rodda wrote, “Mansfield joined the ranks of the Christian nationalist history revisionists, perpetuating, in some cases through…

Immigration Reform According to Ralph Reed’s Bible

By Peter Montgomery

…em of U.S. immigration policy, they should sit down with the faith community and perhaps open their Bibles. Well, if politicians are looking to scripture to resolve details over visas, employment verification, and a path to citizenship, they may need to borrow Ralph’s Bible—it seems to contain some supplemental material….

Finding Love—and Dogma—in Unexpected Places: Jeff Chu’s Gay Christian Odyssey

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…differences. They’ve basically accused you of being dogmatic. First of all, I do, in my heart, feel that I approached this journey in a very open way. There is a moment I record, when I’m at Westboro, of all places, where I genuinely did ask myself, “What if they are right? What if they’re right about America and the world and about me and we’re all going to hell because this little band of believers in Kansas is right about all this?” That wasn’…

Is Religion a Game?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ielding a bladed cross, and Kali with a sword, shield, and severed head (oh, wait, that’s Kali’s typical depiction, see left). Carl Raschke, a professor of religious studies at Denver University, claims in USA Today that the new game is “too stupid to go far,” and that may be so. Yet, I think there is much worth investigating in the relation between religious worlds and games, both in their board and video versions. For those still baffled as to w…

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s to demand more specifics in terms of investment history, current holdings, and, perhaps more important, the ethical principles that guide what many would assume, but which is nowhere stated on the CPG website or in the annual report, are socially responsible investing practices. Tweeted cries to “divest now” from Bain may, at the end of the day, be misdirected. But they nonetheless raise important questions to which both the Episcopal Church and…

Pope Francis’ Love Letter is an Opportunity Lost

By Mary E. Hunt

…y no hint of how, for example, a same-sex couple in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, might see itself as morally equivalent to its heterosexually coupled next door neighbors despite the fact that state and federal laws, tax codes, and neighborhood children do not notice any difference. Apparently nothing that was spoken by lay Catholics at the Synods (who merit nary a mention in the text) seeped into the writers’ consciousness—only what was uttered b…

Why Do Mormons Side with People Who Don’t Like Mormons?

By Joanna Brooks

…the state’s population) are siding with her over our own Harry Reid. We are, after all, the most politically conservative religious tradition in the US. And the Tea Party kool-aid is really flowing in the job-parched state of Nevada. As Jan Shipps, a long-time scholar of LDS experience recently said, the climate is so conservative out there that Nevada Mormons would probably choose Angle over our own Mitt Romney if he was on the ballot. What’s rem…