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Law Prof: Obama Under No Obligation to Appeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ppeal and why he doesn’t just use his executive powers to end the military policy, Obama said, “This is not a situation in which with the stroke of a pen I can simply end the policy unilaterally. … I can’t simply ignore laws that are out there.” But, Obama has far more choice in these matters than he seems to be letting on. For one, his administration had no legal obligation to appeal the DADT ruling. They could have simply let it stand and become…

Dear President Bush

By Jimmy McCarty

…inually drawn the ire of those seeking to live this call by seeking public policy that threatens some of the little nature we have left. You have perpetuated our dependence on oil which harms the earth when taken from it and when it is used. This does not make America any better stewards of what God has graciously given us. I have become an adult during your eight years as president, Mr. Bush. I watched your presidency closely and have renounced t…

Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right

By R.L. Stollar

…ery was absolutely celebrated and rewarded, and sometimes it was even a competition of who could be more polite. It was primarily a competition of making a positive impression with charisma and confidence.” Debate: now with 100% less debate Former Colorado debater Andrew Roblyer has written for the homeschool survivor blog Homeschoolers Anonymous about how debate fits with the Christian Right’s agenda. He explains: “The dream, espoused to us stude…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, “told the crowd that the founders of the United States—including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson—‘recognized the Ten Commandments as the foundation of our laws.’” Bachmann isn’t alone among Republican politicians embracing Reconstructionist views. After Moore was stripped of his judgeship for defying a federal court order to remove his monument, Titus drafted the Constitution Restoration Act, which would ha…

The Conflation of Antisemitism and Israel Criticism Isn’t Unique, But It Is a Problem

By Elizabeth Shively

…representations, international advocacy, scholarly production, educational policy, and legal discourse. It has become more severe over the past few decades as religion has become increasingly judicialized and politicized. As one elderly ethnic Indian man explained to Moustafa, “Thirty-five years back, we didn’t have these issues. Everyone was happy. I went to school with the Chinese and Bumis [indigenous Southeast Asians]. We really mingled around…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…t my henhouse from foxes?” We’ve brought in Muslims to tell us how to make policy toward Muslim countries. And many of these people we’ve brought in, I’m afraid, are under the Muslim Brotherhood. Graham was sounding a lot like Beck and other right-wing talking heads because they have already put forth that very conspiracy theory, and repeated it at virtually every opportunity. As I reported last year, when Fox News and the American Center for Law…

Wiesel to Romney: Stop LDS Baptisms of Holocaust Victims

By Joanna Brooks

…y non-family members, and then must indicate that they are in keeping with policy when they submit names for proxy rites. But violations continue, and they are a source of great shame and embarrassment. Perhaps more can be done. Listening in on conversations among Mormons this week, I’ve heard important ideas bubbling up from within the community about how to instill greater accountability: What if LDS Church members who use the Family Search data…

From Kneel-Ins to the Condemnation of “Racial Sin”: The Meaning of the PCA’s “Overture on Pursuing Racial Reconciliation”

By Paul Harvey

…, they could be cast out of the church. Those who objected to the official policy of the Presbyterian Church of the United States in the 1960s felt that the denomination had forsaken the historic Presbyterian policy of the “spirituality of the church.” That policy, to dismantle “Negro” presbyteries and synods and desegregate the church, dated only from 1957, arising in part as a direct response to the Little Rock school episode. Many (not all, but…

White House Unveils Contraception Accommodation Plan [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…ions accountable for a rigorous, fair and consistent implementation of the policy, which does not compromise the essential principles of access to care.” While praising the accommodation as a “reaffirmation of the commitment to ensuring contraceptive coverage,” NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan will be “committed to ensuring that the policy is implemented fully and fairly, so that women receive this basic health-care benefit without…

New Egyptian Appointee Vows to Prevent Sunnis from Falling into ‘Shi‘i Trap’

By Christopher Anzalone

…em” to the Sunni tradition. He also said that he would continue al-Azhar’s policy of dialogue with Shi‘i Muslims, particularly Twelvers, that began in 1961 when the then-shaykh al-Azhar, Mahmoud Shaltout, issued a fatwa recognizing the Shi‘i school of jurisprudential thought. Al-Tayyib said that his policy was aimed at continuing the Sunni-Shi‘i dialogue which has “reduced tensions” between the two groups. In his Wajh al-Sahafah interview, al-Tayy…