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Kentucky-Fried Christianity: Governor Matt Bevin Wants to Pray Away Violence in Louisville

By Spencer Dew

…tions all linked to the belief that today’s street violence results not merely from the free will of the individual, but is also inexorably shaped by deep historical patterns and social structures. “The fact of the matter is there is violence in the community because there is poverty, and the poverty is rooted in systemic injustice and racism that has plagued this country since 1619,” he said. “To talk about the present situation without talking a…

Court Rules in Favor of For-Profit Employer Seeking Exemption from Contraception Rule

By Sarah Posner

…und that “the threatened harm to Plaintiffs, impingement of their right to freely exercise their religious beliefs, and the concommittant public interest in that right srongly [sic] favor the entry of injunctive relief.” In a statement, Sarah Lipton-Lubet, policy counsel for the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office, said, “We are disappointed with today’s decision. It is unacceptable for employers – especially for-profit companies – to use their p…

Obama Administration Gives Free Pass for Faith-Based Groups to Discriminate

By Sarah Posner

…unding; and (3) that “the Applicant is a religious organization that sincerely believes that providing the services in question is an expression of its religious beliefs; that employing individuals of a particular religion is important to its religious exercise; and that having to abandon its religious hiring practice in order to receive the federal funding would substantially burden its religious exercise.” Sher described this process as “whateve…

What the Danish Cartoon Controversy Tells Us About Religion, the Secular, and the Limits of the Law

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…ar law and politics affect everyone. The divisions within the modern world between religious and secular are not natural ones. They have a complex history. Only by going back and taking seriously some of the turns that history has taken will we understand why religion has become such a contentious topic today. Asad focuses on the “self-owning” individual of the liberal state and the many contradictions inherent in this invention. Tacking back and…

Are Kosher Delis Like Catholic Hospitals?

By Sarah Posner

…rced under the threat of government sanction to violate their most deeply held beliefs, especially their unpopular beliefs. Meanwhile, those who support the mandate respond that pork is good for you. Other supporters add so many Jews eat pork, and those who don’t should just get with the times. Still others say those orthodox are just trying to impose their beliefs on everyone else. But in our hypothetical, those arguments fail in the public debat…

As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…high bar must be met in order to ban political parties: The Basic Law has deliberately placed high hurdles in front of a party ban. This, too, is a lesson learned from National Socialism. It had been made far too easy for [the Nazi Party] to ban the SPD [Social Democratic Party] in 1933 and all other parties shortly afterwards. After fundamental rights had already been restricted by the ‘Reichstag Fire Decree’—which was enacted in accordance with…

Not All Choice is Free

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e most powerful patriarchal religious organizations in the world—be sure to recall that the bishops are all men, every last one of them—placing itself squarely in opposition to women’s sexual equality and autonomy….

On Religion, Abortion, and Politics: Dr. George Tiller’s Christian Ethics

By Ed Knudson

…ther became a fierce critic of the Catholic hierarchy because it placed itself between the believer and God, and used its power over people for its own ends. To increase its own institutional power, the Catholic Church terrified the internal consciences of the people—it can be argued that the Church is doing the same thing today in its false teachings about abortion. Vocation in the Secular World It is difficult to overestimate the revolutionary c…

Mercy, Justice, and the Telephone Company

By Daniel Schultz

…situation reminds me of William Cavanaugh’s seminal paper Killing for the Telephone Company. It’s a long piece, but well worth reading if you’re at all interested in political science. Cavanaugh traces the development of the state from feudal protection racket to faceless bureaucratic partner of the global markets. He is particularly interested in the development of the nation-state: This brings us to the term “nation-state”, which designates an e…

303 Creative Is Not a ‘Religion v. Gay Rights’ Case — But Here’s Why the Christian Right is Happy with the Media Suggesting Just That

By Heron Greenesmith

…aith and Gay Rights.” “Masterpiece Cakeshop, 303 Creative and the conflict between religion, gay rights.” To read major headlines on Tuesday, one might be forgiven for thinking that the 303 Creative case is about the right for conservative Christian business owners to deny goods or services to LGBTQ people. It’s way bigger. Anti-LGBT legal goliath Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing Lorie Smith, a conservative Christian web designer w…