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Romney’s VP Pick of Ryan Will Bring Religion to the Fore

By Sarah Posner

…story.” This was after Catholic academics called Republican budget-cutting policies “at variance from one of the church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the magisterium of the church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor.” Dolan has called the contraceptive benefit requirement under the Affordable Care Act “literally unconscionable” and “un-American,” but spared R…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…l Abuse of Children,” urging Southern Baptist churches to strengthen their policies on sexual abuse and cut ties with any leader or organization who is or has been involved in criminal or civil litigation “for neglecting moral or lgal obligations to protect…little children.” The resolution will be taken up in committee at the 2013 Southern Baptist Convention meeting, in Houston this week, on June 11-12. T4G and TGC’s defense of Mahaney have left c…

Fear of a Black President

By Jonathan L. Walton

…o by an uncritical devotion to their own. His pigmentation rather than his policies cut against the grain of what these persons wrongly consider “natural” or “American.” More specifically, his very being is a haunting rejoinder to such white Americans of what they are not—indeed what they have never been. This African American man with an Arabic name has dared to usurp all of the cultural and cognitive tropes that white supremacy has historically…

Obama’s Divisive Choice of Rick Warren

By Michelle Goldberg

…in Africa, but he supports the same types of destructive, abstinence-only policies as the Bush administration. One of his protegés, Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, has been a major force in moving that country away from its lifesaving safer-sex programs. He’s been known to burn condoms at Makerere University, the prestigious school in Uganda’s capital, and in his Pentecostal services, marked by much sobbing and speaking in tongues, he offers the pr…

What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…y simply declining to fund houses of worship. Trinity Lutheran throws such policies into question—although the scope of the ruling is unclear. (More on that later.) Both Justice Gorsuch in concurrence and Justice Sotomayor in dissent criticized the majority’s attempt to create a line between religious identity and activities, though they ultimately arrive at opposing conclusions. Gorsuch asked, “Can it really matter whether the restriction in Lock…

Paul Ryan: “This Is Not Theology…”

By Peter Laarman

…laps. Unlike Romney, Ryan is anything but a cipher in respect to concrete policies. We know exactly what he thinks, and his entire party’s backing for his death’s-head budget means Obama doesn’t have to stretch at all to say, “This is their plan, folks. More for them, less for you. And the idea that this will grow the economy is just fairy dust.” I’m most interested in the fairy dust part because, of course, Ryan maintains just the opposite. He i…

The Tragedy of Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ones University’s tax exemption when the institution refused to change its policies forbidding interracial dating. And while small doses of alcohol are permitted in communion, users of the hallucinogenic substance peyote, which is employed by some Native American groups in their rituals, have been sanctioned criminally for their conduct. So where to draw the line? It’s important to understand that disputes about religious exemptions have taken on…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…rtified birth control-free, there could be hundreds of others with similar policies. However, several states “require pharmacies or pharmacists to fill contraceptive prescriptions, according to the National Women’s Law Center,” the AP reported. “Four states explicitly give pharmacists the right to turn away any prescriptions, the group said.” ++++++++++ RD Tidbits • New poll results re: California Propositions 8 and 4: According to a statewide sur…

Why the Women’s Ordination Question Will Shape the Future of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…t forms of institutional power—from the power to shape the church’s global policies and finances to the power to bless the sick, administer sacraments, baptize, and excommunicate—belong only to men. Does pervasive institutional gender segregation really reflect the will of God and the core tenets of the LDS faith? That question may constitute the defining theological challenge of Mormonism’s next century. With reports of declining retention rates…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…church arsons more severe, designated the cancellation of church insurance policies by insurance companies to be a crime, designated loan funds for rebuilding, and developed strategies for arson prevention and community building. Meanwhile, the NCC was raising unprecedented amounts of funding from organizations, celebrities, and individual congregations. The burning of black churches was an outrage that transcended theological differences. Million…