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Kudlow Brags on Twitter About Helping Card. Dolan Write “Free Market” Oped

By Patricia Miller

…ope Francis, “expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power”) and the wonders of the free market. He is a regular contributor to the WSJ, the National Review and the Cato Journal. Kudlow was converted to his particular brand of capitalistic Catholicism by Father John McCloskey, an Opus Dei priest who also takes credit for “guiding” Newt Gingrich, Robert Bork, Robert Novak and Sam Brownback to Catholicism and ha…

The Subway Sandwich Artist Argument; When “Religious Freedom” Isn’t About Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…bench. At first blush, it might appear that Masterpiece Cakeshop is about religious freedom. Supporters of the baker, Jack Phillips, have certainly claimed it to be so in their public rhetoric. But court filings (including from the Department of Justice) suggest that next month’s arguments are far more likely to turn on a different First Amendment freedom, that of speech and expression. Like my hypothetical Subway employee, Phillips presents himse…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…all of which play a role in Mitt Romney’s “severe” conservatism. The bombshell release of video in which he trumpets his disdain for moochers, and reveals a remarkably casual approach to Middle East politics, all resonate with the Calvinist heritage of Mormon theology, as well as with principal Mormon narratives. But Mormonism also holds the seeds of a decidedly progressive politics—a possible Mormon liberation theology. Does Romney’s religion mat…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…care, McGowan’s thinking on dangerous speech acts should require that we delineate between harmful pornographic content that does introduce and uphold sexism, racism or transphobia, and that which does not. Equally, a framework of oppressive speech acts helps further highlight why a “marketplace of ideas” approach to free speech falls short. Just “raising questions” about racist pseudoscience, as well as outright white supremacist speeches, invol…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…reau, Melville, Emily Dickinson, Susan B. Anthony, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry George, the James brothers (no, not those James boys: I mean Henry and William), Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Ida Tarbell, Helen Keller, Margaret Sanger, Eleanor Roosevelt—it’s a very long list of reformers and independent thinkers. These are all WASPy names, as you may have noticed. I now want to add that in the American context, some of the gr…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…’s interpretation of the speech was that Muntarbhorn would be “curtailing religious freedom” and ” indoctrinating children and society through propaganda at all levels.” Vatican: New document on priesthood affirms ban on people with ‘deep-seated’ gay tendencies In a new document on the priesthood, the Vatican said that people with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” or who “support the so-called ‘gay culture’” cannot be priests, reports the Washin…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ce. The church insists that it cannot, in good conscience, allow its sincerely-held teachings to be violated on its watch. The elders take a vote and come back with a decision: They’ll be HAPPY to let the church be the polling place, and serve the common good, but only if they can restrict voting to men. Their critics protest: “Women have a right to vote in this country, for heaven’s sake! What is wrong with you people? If you strike this arrangem…

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…aking experiments at CERN. When science explains away the hand of God, he believes, religion will lose its relevance. People will doom themselves to spiritless squalor. Ewan McGregor portrays, to my knowledge, the first action-movie villain driven to his diabolical acts by an addiction to intelligent design theory. Natural Enemies There aren’t a lot of religion-and-science movies, and even fewer great ones. Near the top of anybody’s list, though,…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…defended the letter as divinely inspired—an expression of free speech and freedom of religion. Burkhart had trouble finding doctors for her own clinic, when she started exploring the idea of reopening the practice several years ago. One in-state doctor expressed interest, but after his local hospital learned about it, Burkhart said, they threatened to terminate his contract. An anonymous doctor who will work at the clinic described to the LA Time…

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

By Bruce Ledewitz

…us speech on political matters. Candidate Barack Obama in 2006 really did tell religious believers that “democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns” into secular language when debating public issues. Richard Rorty really did call religious arguments in the public square “conversation stoppers” and urge their exclusion. John Rawls really did call religion a comprehensive doctrine at odds with liberal argument (but not…