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Why I Joined Over a Thousand Faith Leaders in Masterpiece Case Brief

By Marie Alford-Harkey

…licly proclaiming the dignity and worth of LGBTQ people and advocating for policies that respect and uphold that dignity is at the heart of my vocation. There are others who argue that their Christian faith calls them to advocate for the right of the bakery in this case to deny service to same-sex couples based on his sincerely held religious belief that marriage is between one man and one woman. I disagree with this argument on theological ground…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…Pressure on insurance companies to demand changes in police procedures and policies used by police departments that consistently lead to high incidents of police brutality against racial minorities by refusing those departments coverage. The immediate clarification by the FBI that Black Lives Matter is not a “black identity extremist” movement. American Academy of Religion/ Society of Biblical Literature: The immediate development and support of t…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…is having an impact beyond the passage of ever more draconian state-level policies in Republican-controlled states. There’s far more in the report than can be summarized here, and I encourage everyone to read it. But this much is clear: trans Americans are facing a lopsided struggle for acceptance against powerful and wealthy forces with massive platforms, and going ahead we need all the help we can get at winning the hearts and minds of our fell…

GTS Situation is Just a Typical Labor Dispute… But With Clergy

By Kim Bobo

…r issues of concern, the style in which they were presented or the various policies of the institution, this is essentially a labor dispute. Workers, the faculty members, wanted a voice in how they and students were treated. They organized to have a voice. They went on strike. They got fired. Replacement workers were hired. The management then offered to rehire the workers provisionally and the workers, under enormous duress, agreed to the conditi…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…omical facial gestures. More importantly, he is heavily criticized for his policies, whether they be economic, foreign, or faith-based. The reality is that he has contributed greatly to the one area that American public life has been sorely lacking: religion. I don’t mean the practice of religion; Americans represent one of the most ritualistically observant countries of developed nations. Nor do I mean injecting God into politics; let us not forg…

World Congress of Families Meets, Seeks a New Dark Ages

By Gillian Kane

…ke “How to Fight Back against International Law,” or “How to Impact Public Policies and Elections.” 2012 marked the first time the WCF devoted an entire day to organizing with parliamentarians and civil society. The invitation-only International Parliamentary Forum met to develop concrete political and legislative solutions in defense of the natural family. By far the biggest block of participating parliamentarians was from Spain’s newly installed…

High Jewish Voter Turnout—and They Don’t Like Trump

By Gordon Haber

…policy towards Palestinians and the settlements “makes them feel more negative toward Israel.” Eighty-four percent of of American Jews believe that it is possible to be “pro-Israel” even while criticizing the government’s policies. The takeaway: Despite years of prognostications from Republicans that they’re just about to break right, American Jews are like they’ve been for decades—Democratic and strongly attached to Israel—only more so….

Detroit’s Baggy Pants Fatwa

By Svend White

…that for most people what is ultimately repugnant about the aforementioned policies in some Islamic societies today is not their religious inspiration, but their ultimately tyrranical nature, the imposition of the opinions of one segment of society on another based on debatable and subjective reasons. Were these countries merely enforcing a culturally appropriate and humane standard of modesty in public places, we’d have little to say about the ma…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…rvatives requires plausible deniability regarding their racist remarks and policies. The Knights of the White Camelia, a Louisiana-based white supremacist secretive society made up of judges, teachers and white professionals, for example, required the oath that included the declaration: “I swear to maintain and defend the social and political superiority of the White Race on this Continent; always and in all places to observe a marked distinction…

LDS Proxy Marriage Rites Bind Slaves to Slavemasters for Eternity, including Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings

By Joanna Brooks

…itivity and the doctrinal persistence of polygamy—after all temple sealing policies permitted a polygamous sealing of Jefferson to Martha Jefferson and Sally Hemmings—but also gestures towards profound ethical and religious questions. For their part, Mormons have tried to answer questions about posthumous baptisms and sealings by explaining that no posthumous rite is considered binding and that the efficacy of all rites depends on acceptance by th…