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Who’s Afraid of God? Video of the Netroots Nation Church-State Panel

By The Editors

…wall of separation. Voters must be allowed, without criticism, to propose policies based on religious belief. But, when government speaks and acts, messages must be universal. The burden is on religious believers, therefore, to explain public references like “under God” in universal terms. For example, the word “God” can refer to the ceaseless creativity of the universe and the objective validity of human rights. Promoting and accepting religious…

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…ttee-controlled man.” Each had to publicly repudiate “the unconstitutional policies of President Bush in his promotion of the USA Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps and eavesdropping, and the deceptive manner in which he led America into an undeclared, unprovoked, and preemptive war against Iraq;” have protested against abortion, and have publicly resisted “‘Seeker-Friendly,’ and ‘Purpose-Driven,’ and ‘Emerging Church’ church growth movements.” He…

Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

…sillusioned with party politics, and that they see glaring problems in the policies their predecessors have enacted, but that doesn’t make them libertarians by default. It may well make them pragmatists, interested in fixing things without fidelity to a binding set of positions. You don’t have to be a free market purist, for instance, to believe in marriage equality. Nor do you have to hate federal regulation to acknowledge that the war on drugs h…

RDEpistle: Open Letter to Sean Hannity

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…job, since he had no other because of a bad economy created by Republican policies, was “to stop them. Not to debate them, but defeat them.” And so he loaded a gun. Sean, you occupy a position of power. All words have power, but some words are more powerful than others simply because they are amplified from a larger stage. With power comes responsibility. If there is any of that old Sean left—the one before the big office, the popular TV and radi…

Why The Religious Left Isn’t Coming Together, and Why It Matters

By Daniel Schultz

…erlapping consensus,” but the plainer way of putting it is that they think policies should work for everyone, religious or not. They’re not about to apologize for that. In sum, most people on the left aren’t hostile to faith, but they’re only willing to cede it so much authority. That’s not because liberal clergy deal away the moral (or even revealed) content of their faith, as the stereotype often has it. In fact, I and many colleagues across den…

LDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children

By Holly Welker

…not change the Lord’s doctrine,” but the church wants “our members and our policies to be considerate of those struggling with the challenges of mortality.” (Questions: Precisely who isn’t struggling with the challenges of mortality? Doesn’t consideration for the struggles of mortality underlie Christianity’s most celebrated ideals?) The statement is akin to a customer service rep lamenting the fact that their employer doesn’t give them the power…

My Business, Myself: Piercing the Corporate Veil

By Howard M. Friedman

…lost its preliminary bid to avoid offering its employees health insurance policies that cover contraception. Because Annex has only 16 full-time and two part-time employees, the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” does not require it to provide health insurance to its workers at all. (Only businesses with 50 or more employees are required by the new law to provide insurance.) However, if Annex chooses to offer its employees insurance, its plan—l…

Bergoglio’s “Jesuitical” Reaction to Argentina’s Dirty War

By Sarah Posner

…nventional narrative about the values and history of Pope Francis, and the prospects for reform of the Church under his papacy. Watch this clip for a dissection of his compassion for the poor, and this one for a discussion of his vociferous opposition to the current Argentinian government’s liberal policies on issues like same-sex marriage. On the question of then-Archbishop Bergoglio’s complicity in the brutal military dictatorship’s kidnapping…

Let’s Make it Legal to Execute Disobedient Children!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…g to Fuqua) true everywhere and in all times and places. Therefore, public policies which assume a depraved human nature will end up working out well and efficiently. Capitalism, inasmuch as it assumes people are selfish and depraved, works and is efficient. So too with deregulation, and with the removal of a social safety net. These things create wealth, incentivize work, and preserve individual freedom from government interference. Liberals and…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Luhur, estimates that the cost to the Indonesian economy of attitudes and policies that prevent LGBT people from full participation in the country’s social and economic life could be $12 billion or more annually. Human Rights Watch published an open letter to French President François Hollande urging him to raise the issue of LGBT human rights during his visit to Indonesia: Specifically, we ask that you press President Jokowi to… publicly condemn…