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Romney’s Speech, and Boehner’s Catholicism

By Sarah Posner

…a kind, generous, selfless lay bishop fails to square with cruel economic policy. Of course this was a political convention, and as Joanna points out, hagiography. But like Joanna, I felt like those speeches from non-politicians (Clint Eastwood aside) put a human face on Mormonism, relieving us of stereotypes and caricatures. Yet I don’t know that it helped Romney that much. As President of the United States, unlike stake president, he won’t hav…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…rch, Perry sketched the battle lines of a struggle “bigger than any law or policy.” Citing Paul, he described a struggle, not against “flesh and blood,” but “against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” “Because we know how the Bible ends,” Perry continued, “we can rely on His strength to persevere and never, ever give up, in doing good.” Perry’…

Exclusion is Causing Great Harm: A Conversation With Suspended UMC Pastor Rev. Cynthia Meyer

By Joel Pitney

…he wake of their church’s decision this past spring to uphold its official policy that homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teachings”—to risk their careers and go public. Meyer’s announcement was not embraced by the regional church leadership with open arms. In fact, within days charges were brought against her for violating the UMC’s official policy against openly gay individuals practicing as clergy. Despite the fact that her own congr…

The Failure of Obama’s Faith Strategy Revealed

By Sarah Posner

…t the president’s decision was a matter of personal conscience, not public policy. But he said that some religious leaders wanted to hear Mr. Obama say that explicitly. “We hope the president will reach out to people who disagree with him on this,” Mr. Wallis said. “The more conservative churches need to know, need to be reassured that their religious liberty is going to be respected here.” Mr. Obama has reached out to Mr. Wallis, Mr. Hunter and t…

DREAMing of Faith

By Sarah Posner

…, led by Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and Joshua Dubois, Director of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, included Noel Castellanos of the Christian Community Development Association; Rabbi Jack Moline of Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, VA; Pastor Joel Hunter of Northland, A Church Distributed in Longwood, Florida; and Pastor Rich Nathan of Vineyard Columb…

Religious Leaders Pressure Congress To Support Religious Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…ation and also continued to urge the administration not to change the Bush policy. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State spoke out in opposition to the letter, with executive director the Rev. Barry Lynn calling it “disgraceful” that when so many Americans are out of work, “some religious leaders want to deny government-funded job opportunities on the basis of religion.” Lynn told me today, “this whole thing driven by the Confere…

Sure, There’s No ‘Religious Left’… If You Ignore Non-White Christians and Non-Christians

By Daniel Schultz

…really isn’t, if you mean a cohesive national movement advancing a unified policy agenda analogous to the Religious Right. That’s in fact why I never capitalize “religious left”: I don’t believe there’s a single entity you can point to. On a national level, we have what I’ve sometimes derided as the “Religion-Industrial Complex,” which specializes in amplifying religious left voices and coordinating their direct action (generous interpretation), o…

‘Centrist’ Advocates of ‘Common Ground’ Endorse Abortion Restrictions in Health Care Bill

By Sarah Posner

…said the “rider” required by the amendment was motivated by politics, not policy. “There is no sound policy reason to require women to pay separately for their abortion coverage other than to try to shame them and draw attention to the abortion coverage,” she said in a statement. Who was satisfied with the amendment, which Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) portrayed as a compromise between language that mirrored the failed Capps amendment and the successful…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…gues that such time-honored traditions should not be dismissed by a supine policy of multiculturalism? There is more where that came from. Christianity is dying across the Continent, Caldwell admits, but Christianity is still the essence of Europeanness: “Spain is less concerned that its immigrants be white than they have similarities of worldview with the people already established there, starting with knowing what the inside of a Church looks li…

The Circle Can Remain Unbroken, If Battered And Bloody

By Daniel Schultz

…ially destructive or about the rules of reason for making equitable public policy? The reply of most moral and political philosophers to this question tends to be simply, “probably not.” The nub of disagreement in these circles is over just how dismal the situation is. This is the usual tendentiousness from both Dreher and Hunter. Culture Wars was conceptually an attack on John Rawls’ concept of “overlapping consensus” as the glue of a liberal soc…