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“Man of Steel” Brings Muscular Message to Oppose Right-to-Die Legislation

By Ann Neumann

…g legislation in New York and Washington, D.C., as well as a referendum in Colorado (which ultimately passed). In this effort, he is clearly trying to position himself as the antithesis to Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old Californian, diagnosed with the same cancer as Hanson, who died in 2014 shortly after appearing on the cover of People magazine under the headline “My Decision to Die.” Hanson is not the first high-profile activist to oppose aid…

WA Supreme Court: LGBT Discrimination No More About Flowers Than Civil Rights Were About Sandwiches

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…luding Elane Photography, LLC v. Willock and Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, courts have come down against business owners who refuse to provide goods and services for weddings between same-sex couples. Opinions in these cases have found that antidiscrimination laws are neutral, generally applicable measures that do not favor secularism over religion, or single out particular religious groups for ill treatment. The…

“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e anti-LGBTQ Christian organization headquartered in Kendall’s hometown of Colorado Springs, Colo. Although Nicolosi claimed that NARTH was a secular organization dedicated to “scientific inquiry” about the nature of same-sex attraction, Nicolosi himself was a devout Catholic, and NARTH frequently aligned itself with right-wing religious groups that adamantly opposed LGBTQ equality. Nicolosi’s website, which serves as the central hub for NARTH’s n…

I Always Knew Santa Was Make-Believe: A Retired Pastor on Losing Her Faith

By Anne Grant

…. Despite his strong belief, I knew Nik could not walk on water across the Colorado River. He would sink like a stone. Faith often works when you believe, but gravity always works, whether or not you believe. When Phil and I told each other our thinking about God had changed, we felt a sense of relief. But when we tried to tell others, they gasped. No matter how gently we introduced the subject, it seemed like too much for some people we loved. La…

Religion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…k school, the July 2012 movie theater shootings by James Holmes in Aurora, Colorado, the August 2012 attack on the Milwaukee Sikh Gurdwara by Wade Michael Page, and before that, the 2010 Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad, and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic park by Eric Robert Rudolph, who was related to the Christian Identity movement. As I argued after the Boston bombing: Some of these were committed by Christians, some by Muslims, and som…

Dog Whistles and Holes in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Arguments?

By Patrick Hornbeck

…roposition makes little sense in terms of strict scrutiny, and in fact the Colorado law at issue in Masterpiece Cakeshop likewise does not differentiate among the kinds of discrimination from which it seeks to protect citizens. Waggoner’s and Francisco’s claims only make sense if they are telegraphing to the Court’s more conservative justices another kind of message: that it’s permissible for Phillips to discriminate against same-sex couples, as a…

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

By Marie Alford-Harkey

…ice in anticipation of Tuesday’s oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Last month, I joined nearly 1,300 religious leaders in telling the Supreme Court, via amicus brief, that religious beliefs do not give businesses the right to discriminate. As faith leaders, our religious traditions call us to weigh in on pressing social questions, but we do so at the risk of being considered “overly political.” Recently, w…

Will 2018 Be the Year of Catholic Health Care Dominance?

By Patricia Miller

…ic systems to gobble up secular hospitals and impose the ERDs on them. The number of Catholic hospitals increased by 22% between 2001 and 2016 following an earlier waver of mergers, according to a report by MergerWatch. Market consolidation by Catholic providers will also allow these systems to dominate insurance contracts, which often results in patients being forced to choose hospitals from a single health system, which in the case of Catholic p…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…d the Beatles to be important agents of change. Timothy Leary, too, made a number of pretty hyperbolic statements about the Beatles ushering in a new religious sensibility—a new way of being for young people. When the four came under the tutelage of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, it confirmed the worries of many. Eventually, after a few decades of desperately fighting rock ‘n’ roll, evangelicals moved to appropriate it for themselves. What was the tur…

So What if Psychedelics Are ‘Just’ Spiritual?

By Hollis Phelps

…). Found in several plants and, perhaps most famously, in the venom of the Colorado River toad, a recent study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found that the majority of people who use the substance do so for the expressed purpose of spiritual exploration. Although the article suggests the therapeutic potential of DMT, it seems that the spiritual potential for “the spirit molecule,” is its main draw. This represents something of a reversal of…