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Louisiana Students Must Choose: Religion or Science

By Lauri Lebo

…she believes that Louisiana’s battles have been overshadowed by the recent Texas textbook fight in which members of the Board of Education have been trying to sneak creationist language into the curriculum. With its incredible power over textbook publishers, Texas (which buys its books at the state level and is the second largest purchaser of textbooks in the country next to California) has been grabbing the anti-evolution headlines. Meanwhile, Ch…

The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope

By Frederick Clarkson

…he cases of “Kelly Easter in Tennessee and Fatma Marouf and Bryn Esplin in Texas [who each] wanted to provide foster homes for refugee children, but they were refused service by taxpayer-funded agencies working under federal contracts because the women are LGBTQ.” All of the cases involve the use of state or federal funds. When the Tennessee bill was introduced, Pam Kelner, the executive director of Jewish Family Services, told The Tennessean, “If…

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…their eagerness to secure their right to discriminate against same-sex couples as a last-ditch protest against the legalization and acceptance of same-sex marriage, the Catholic bishops appear willing to enable other faith-based actors who use social service agencies as a means to an end. When Texas passed the “Freedom to Serve Children Act,” which specifically allows discrimination against people of other faiths (one of ten states that have pass…

From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion

By Patricia Miller

…e than a decade of obscurity in which the alias used in a challenge to the Texas law that banned most abortions became synonymous with women’s empowerment, McCorvey became an avatar of the abortion rights movement as it ascended to cultural and political power in the late 1980s. The movement had struggled to find cohesion in the 1970s, but exploded in the wake of Ronald Reagan’s election and the reality that Roe might be overturned by efforts to p…

Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Is Muslim. So What?

By Sarah Posner

…g rampage that killed 13 and injured more than 30 more at the Army base in Texas. He is an Army psychiatrist born in the northern Virginia suburbs and is described in some accounts as a “devout Muslim.” But even before that detail emerged, the internet was aflame with speculation — based on Hasan’s name, of course — that the shootings had something to do with Hasan’s religion. Of course that leads many to jump to conclusions: did religion cause hi…

Can Romney Win by Embracing his Mormon Masculinity?

By Joanna Brooks

…hismo standoff between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, and that the bow-legged Texas governor would inevitably prevail. After all, as I’ve argued before, Mormon men do masculinity differently than their non-Mormon rivals. And last night, that difference (as well as as some clear gaps in Rick Perry’s preparation) worked to Romney’s favor. Perry came out of the gates strong, then got bogged down in sexually transmitted disease (his executive order to v…

Close Encounters With Roy Moore

By Sarah Posner

…mpeachment of Supreme Court justices over the 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down Texas anti-sodomy laws. He decried Griswold v. Connecticut, which struck down laws banning the sale of birth control, because the justices “made it up, “referring to privacy rights. (Ditto Roe v. Wade, of course.) The Supreme Court, he concluded, “does everything to undermine” the Constitution. Moore was particularly disgusted with President Obama’s…

Originalism Needn’t Always Result in Abortion Bans — Just Ask al-Qaʿida?

By Nathan French

…the Taliban. This isn’t uncommon. Several months ago, after the passage of Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), author Stephen King tweeted, “The Taliban would love the Texas abortion law.” Such usage, Sajida Jalalzai wrote on RD, is not only a perpetuation of Islamophobic beliefs, but is also a “refusal to acknowledge white Christian nationalism at the heart of anti-abortion legislation in America.” Such posts minimize the plurality of Muslim debates on t…

Episcopal Church Removes Bishop Who Split Following LGBT Inclusion Vote

By Elizabeth Drescher

…de, “continues to be a constituent part of The Episcopal Church, even if a number of its leaders have departed.” Steps have been taken to reorganize the Diocese within the Episcopal Church under new leadership, but if history serves, it is likely that wrangling over church property, which Lawrence had moved to separate from the Diocese proper in order to block claims to real estate and other property, will soon follow. The Church continues to reso…

From Engravings to Ultrasounds: The Politics of Imaging the Womb

By Elizabeth Yale

…ead more widely, though—men were also curious about birth and generation.) Cheaply printed and soon translated from German into vernacular languages across Europe, the Rose Garden became a durable best-seller. For midwives, the Rose Garden’s images fulfilled a practical need. Midwives (and other birth attendants) sensed the position of the fetus through touch. When a fetus presented in a position other than head down, a skilled midwife could, in s…