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Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…ust here—the nativism and Islamophobia—has remained constant. But all this policy vagueness has its own kind of power. When it comes to Islam and immigration, we still have little idea what Trump would do if he assumed office. Just as importantly, we have little idea who these policies would even target. When Trump and other right-wingers talk about Islam, what do they even mean? In a New York Times op-ed last December, scholar Hussein Ibish frame…

Why the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business

By Daniel Schultz

…particular to Sessions’ use of a passage from Romans 13 in defense of the policy, a citation the Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe, top executive of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society called “unsound, a flawed interpretation, and a shocking violation of the spirit of the Gospel.” The UMNS article says charges against lay members is very rare in the UMC, a point amplified by reporting from Religion News Service. It’s possible that Sessions coul…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…e v. Wade, then it’s also true that this isn’t well reflected in politics, policy, and media coverage. This presents the perfect opportunity for the prochoice religious community to rise to moral and political leadership. The Christian Right has an ideological, cultural, and electoral strategy designed to accomplish their ends, and the prochoice religious community does not. This needs to change. And it could. Because one lesson we can take from t…

Why Does Abortion Have to Be a Personal Question for Men?

By Sarah Posner

…rate abortion and contraception at the top of their list of concerns. As the other Sarah discussed earlier today, Catholic doctrine has a lot to say about issues unrelated to reproductive matters. Biden took a probably little noticed dig at Ryan when he pointed out that the Republican’s economic policy proposals are at odds with Catholic social justice teaching. Raddatz could have asked about how quite a number of Catholic theologians have someth…

Trump’s Evangelical Support in the Gut, not the Theology

By Donovan Schaefer

…ter. The Republican repudiation of the scientific consensus around climate change is part of the same spirit of defiance. In this case, defiance politics want to take the scientific elitists down a peg. “Make America Great Again” isn’t an idea: it’s an emotion. Surveys have shown that many Republicans “want to hear blunt talk” about Islam. The truth is thrown over in favor of a carefully curated selection of exhilarating falsehoods. Trump’s appeal…

Obama Missing Islam Opportunity with Religious Freedom Ambassador

By Anthea Butler

…. Cook comes in the face of Sen. Jim De Mint’s secret hold on Cook’s nomination, which Sarah Posner wrote about here for RD. I wrote on Cook previously, citing her lack of international policy experience. Now more than ever, this post needs someone who has a handle on Islam, foreign policy, and other religious traditions. The people’s uprising in Egypt is a prime example why this ambassadorship needs someone who is more knowledgeable about religio…

The Marxist Roots of American Exceptionalism

By Michael J. Altman

…s own. Lurking in the background of this unilateralist approach to foreign policy was the older meaning of American exceptionalism, though of course spun positively and shorn of its Marxism: America could have an exceptionalist foreign policy because it was different from other nations. And not only different, but superior. Although in the strictly Marxist usage “exceptionalism” only referred to a way in which the U.S. was different from, rather t…

Newt Gingrich’s Apocalypse

By Sarah Posner

…ins of science fiction,” Sharon Weinberger wrote in a 2010 article Foreign Policy, “The Boogeyman Bomb,” noting, “the unlikely scenarios [its advocates] peddle lend themselves to caricature.” Rob Farley, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, wrote about the EMPACT conference, noting its strong Christian Zionist element, including that Hagee served on the organization’s board….

The Vampire Who Beat Wells Fargo

By Joseph Laycock

…that because of its historic value, he take on a million dollar insurance policy that carried hefty premiums. When Rodgers refused, Wells Fargo force placed an insurance policy that covered the bank but not the homeowner. When Rodgers complained, the bank simply ignored him—so Rodgers turned to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA). Financial institutions must respond to RESPA letters within 20 days or pay a fine. As predicted, all of…

With New York Joining DC in Defiance Methodist Church Faces Showdown on LGBT Ordination

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…ence campaign struck a chord at a time in our nation’s history when public policy and law were rapidly changing to ensure equal rights for LGBTQ people. Clergy and laypersons across the denomination took up Bishop Talbert’s exhortation and did so with the support of Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN). As the only out queer lesbian ordained as an elder in the United Methodist Church, I joined the ranks of those clergy who defied UMC law and offic…