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SCOTUS ‘Right to Work’ Decision Especially Damaging to Women and People of Color

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…form clients of abortion and reproductive health care services, and that a Colorado baker can refuse to bake a cake for a same sex couple—remained largely silent on the immorality and religious McCarthyism symbolized by the travel ban. In another devastating yet widely predicted move, the Court ruled in favor of Mark Janus in Janus vs. AFSCME, which would enshrine “right to work” laws that favor management and corporate control. The Right to Work…

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…mitic attack, using some of the extra funds to repair a Jewish cemetery in Colorado. She also raised tens of thousands of dollars to pay for the funerals of the 11 Jews massacred in Pittsburgh (the American Muslim community was one of the first to donate money to the Jewish community in Pittsburgh). But these gestures and her apology were largely not accepted by the Jewish community; once someone is given the label antisemite, anything that person…

Supreme Court Conservatives Allow Execution of Muslim Prisoner Despite Religious Freedom Violation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…didn’t get a fair hearing and was subjected to religious hostility by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The majority manufactured hostility based on statements from Commissioner Diane Rice, who said: Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the holocaust. . . . we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to just…

For LGBTQ People Christian Schools Can Be Traumatizing

By Tris Mamone

…now a legal consultant in Oxford, Mississippi, a co-host of the atheist podcast Beyond the Trailer Park, and openly bisexual. However, she’s still processing her experiences at French Camp Academy. “I laugh about it and make jokes,” Stringer says, “but that is how I deal with it because there are parts of that experience that I look back on as an adult and realize just how dark my experiences truly were, so I use humor and sarcasm as a coping mec…

Christian or Nothing: Buddhist Prisoner to be Executed Without Buddhist Chaplain (Updated)

By Andrew L. Seidel

…gion during the state’s enforcement action. Justice Kennedy explained that Colorado’s “hostility was inconsistent with the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion.” Christian privilege exists in America, even on death row. In the rare instances when courts roll back that privilege, the cries of persecution are swift. But parity is not oppression. And the erosion of unwarranted privilege is n…

Does ‘Criss-Cross Apple Sauce’ Make Yoga Secular? Opponents of Yoga in Public Schools Have a Point

By Candy Gunther Brown

…s “to wake up to the needs of Alabama pupils.” Zed has been outspoken in a number of yoga controversies in recent years. Notably, he opposed a 2014 tax on D.C. yoga studios as a “religious infringement”—arguing that yoga is “one of the six systems of orthodox Hindu philosophy” and “a mental and physical discipline by means of which the human-soul (jivatman) united with the universal-soul (paramatman).” If Godfrey, Jois, Zed, and Alabama legislator…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ith the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.” Within the United States, the Colorado branch of the American Indian Movement (AIM) would, in the 1980s, propose Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and Berkley, California would celebrate its first Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 1992, (the 500th anniversary of the Columbian voyage). Versions of Native American or Indigenous Peoples’ Day have been proposed as a replacement for Columbus Day for three decades, more rece…

About That “Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage”

By Sarah Posner

…igation to disobey it.” Deborah Cantrell, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, and an expert in both legal ethics and family law, said that discussions of civil disobedience in law school classrooms must “be transparent that this is not a simplistic conversation.” She added that a law professor should emphasize that the discussion is a “normative” one, and that civil disobedience has consequences, including jail, and, for a law…

Kafkaesque Reality Show Known as the RNC Kicks Off

By Paul Harvey

…r-for-Power Games mini-satire. Then, in the middle of the first afternoon, Colorado delegates representing the rump ranks of the rapidly disappearing #NeverTrump movement attempted to demand a vote to change convention rules. They failed, but not before creating some more great television. Finally, Trump’s near-lone connection to the African American religious community, Pastor Mark Burns of South Carolina, was wedged into the program to lead the…

Interview With a Muslim

By Haroon Moghul

…I didn’t see CNN ask anyone to condemn the bombing of the NAACP office in Colorado. But that happened too. I guess it didn’t matter as much. #FrenchLivesMatter more than #BlackLivesMatter. Q: It’s not the same thing. A: Three mosques were attacked in Sweden in the last three weeks. One was set on fire, with people inside. Just recently thousands of Germans gathered against ‘Islamization.’ Somehow I don’t think they mean a handful of radicals. …