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The Cynical Use of “Freedom of Religion”

By Kate Childs Graham

…ight in the United States has done a similar thing, standing behind the shield of religious freedom to fight against the restriction of speech for 501(c)(3) organizations. In 1954, Senator Lyndon Johnson presented an amendment to Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3), which was subsequently adopted by Congress. The amendment defined nonprofit tax-exempt entities—including churches—as those “which [do] not participate in, or intervene in (including the p…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…rectors fully supports Professor Doniger’s right to pursue her scholarship freely and without political interference. A week before their annual national conference, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) changed their preliminary keynote speaker to their former president, Wendy Doniger. On the day of her keynote address (March 27, 2014), the AAS Board of Directors issued a statement in support of Doniger: The Association for Asian Studies, a sch…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…,” Bekim proclaimed before a huge audience. “because for the first time I felt free. In some countries it is so hard to be LGBTI, to be free. Love each other and accept each other because, at the end of the day, we belong to each other.” When he returned to Tetovo, he faced the stark contrast of cultural acceptance between the two countries: he was forced into hiding for a month as he and his parents received death threats motivated by anti-LGBTI…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…transition as well as liturgies for same-sex weddings. As reported by The Telegraph’s religious affairs editor John Bingham, Wilson is a leader of a new campaign by pro-LGBT Anglicans, the LGBTI Mission, pushing for liberalization of church teachings on sexuality, an effort that runs counter to pushback by conservative Anglicans that resulted in the recent suspension of the Episcopal Church USA from the Anglican Communion. . The new campaign group…

Corporate Personhood Was a Radical Notion… In the 11th Century

By Austin Dacey

…egal Tradition. Without the legal device of a self-regulating association relatively insulated from arbitrary state power—be it guild, school, or church—our civilization would be unrecognizable. Amanda Porterfield, a professor of religion and history at Florida State University, observes at The Immanent Frame that although Americans are profoundly divided “over the extent to which corporate bodies should be free to govern themselves, these bodies…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ic, a mostly Muslim nation of 31 million. Yan was helped by living in the relatively cosmopolitan city of Tashkent, which he says is a world apart from the countryside when transgender people can be raped and killed with impunity. “Their parents, family won’t even interfere,” Yan says over a steaming cup of tea. “Because they think it is a sin, a crime against God.” The LA Times notes that homosexuality is still a crime in Uzbekistan, and that the…

Carrie Prejean, God’s Prophet or Porn Star?

By Paula M. Cooey

…because you never know what happened to ’em.” We project gods, secular as well as religious, that bear remarkable resemblances to ourselves and proceed to absolutize our most cherished values as universal, binding to all, whether they share those values or not. We proceed to act accordingly in their name, punishing those who resist. Thus, our gods say much about who we are, what we hold dear, what we dream for the future. I think the exasperated r…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…say and the many angry responses to it. The president of the university, Joel Seligman, said that Gandhi’s statements about Israel and Jewish identity were “fundamentally inconsistent with the core values” of the university and requested his resignation. For many readers the posting’s parenthetical remark about a culture of violence in which “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” was the most offensive line in the essay. Also troubling to m…

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…988. The blasphemy laws (Penal Code 295-298) make it illegal to: “outrage religious feelings,” defile the Qur’an, or deride the Prophet, his family, the first four Caliphs, and the companions of the Prophet. What constitutes outraging or defiling behavior has varied from distribution of purportedly anti-Islamic literature to placing a calendar with passages from the Qur’an onto a work table. The blasphemy laws, along with the hudud ordinance (laws…

Editor’s Picks: Remembering the Broken Promises — and the Possibilities — on Independence Day

By The Editors

…H OF JULY CORRECTIVE Continuing with the broken promises theme, Andrew Seidel tells the story of the prayer that preceded “the shot heard around the world” and the preacher who delivered it. According to Seidel, however, while the prayer is still being used to justify all manner of church-state violations, “we’ve only heard part of the story”—the part that omits the chaplain’s treason. It’s a tidy traditional bedtime story until “things just start…