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New Zealand Passes Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ught. Well if any of you follow my Twitter account, In the Pakuranga electorate this morning, it was pouring with rain, we had the most enormous big gay rainbow across my electorate. It has to be a sign. He also compassionately addressed those who expressed real concerns. We are allowing two people who love each other to have that recognized, and I can’t see what’s wrong with that for love nor money, sir. I just cannot. I cannot understand why som…

Archbishop Drops the Girl Scouts Amid Alarmist Rhetoric and Fake Accusations

By Patricia Miller

…ore contrary to their economic interests. An increasing swath of the electorate has been culturally conditioned to oppose whatever the Democrats do, even if it’s in their own best interests, by powerful cues like opposition to abortion that signal the moral acceptability of Republican candidates who would take away their health insurance and funnel massive tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. And by promoting organizations like American Heritage…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…d have to sue Trump today. But it turned out the order signing was an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome. — ACLU National (@ACLU) May 4, 2017 Hobby Lobby Still Doesn’t Have to Pay for Your Birth Control (Or Pap Smears or Mammograms…) The order’s section addressing the Affordable Care Act’s so-called preventive care mandate is “another example of a lot of fluff and no substance,” Kreis said. The language is so vague that it offer…

Maybe Instead of Solidarity, The Religious Left Should Try Being Indivisible

By Daniel Schultz

…a “deeper” politics rooted in a “fuller” understanding of the gospel. The number of scripture verses you can quote doesn’t matter a bit. Nor does how many more of those verses speak of social justice than sexual ethics. It does not matter how “prophetic” people are. Nor does it matter how spirituality informs one’s politics. We live in a secular and hyper-partisan age. These things motivate almost no one. In fact, even the very idea of a religiou…

Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

By Ed Simon

…ser at the last Thursday in November. If Columbus Day uncomplicatedly celebrates genocide and ethnic cleansing, then an honest accounting must consider the ways in which Thanksgiving similarly countenances such things, even while the myths of the day pretend otherwise. We know that when the passengers on the Mayflower landed in November of 1620, the first thing they did, the very first act they perpetrated, was to rob the graves of the Indians who…

National Day of Prayer Is Illegal, But Courts Won’t Hear Challenges

By Andrew L. Seidel

…n America, which peaked in the 1950s, was the result of a coordinated corporate strategy. Religion was popular and speaking out against religion mixing with government, even when clearly prohibited by the Constitution—in other words, even when it was the American thing to do—was borrowing trouble. So that’s part of our answer, intense social pressure and coercion. But after the Red Scare and the corporate push to sell middle America religion, why…

Murder on the Campaign Trail?

By Carlos Wilton

…spiring head of state, in a country across the ocean, stands before a microphone and despairs of what could happen if his opponent, Hillary Clinton, is elected. What, O what will befall the gun-control protections of the Second Amendment then? “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” shrugs Donald Trump. The boos of the crowd egg him on. He growls in an aside: “Although the Second Amendment people—maybe there is, I don’t know.”…

How ‘The Seven Missions’ of the ‘Doomsday Couple’ Connect Them to the Larger LDS Prophecy Subculture

By Christopher James Blythe

…ree mysterious deaths, including their former spouses,are available at any number of major news sources across the country. But few of these outlets have been able to offer much insight into a document released last week, a numbered list that Chad sent to Lori in January 2019 entitled, “Seven missions to accomplish together,” which reveals how their beliefs relate to this larger movement. The list as it appears in the document is as follows: Trans…

The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion

By Andrew L. Seidel

…metaphorical hell. To quote such a person on the beauty or virtue of love cheapens love. To bring the nation together, both Senator Amy Klobuchar and President Biden quoted the Pledge of Allegiance, declaring that we are “one nation, under God, indivisible,” (as did Jennifer Lopez in Spanish) without realizing that “under God” is an exclusionary amendment to the Pledge from the 1950s and that it is another example, not of unity, but of religion l…

Does Biden’s Inauguration Signal a ‘Third Reconstruction’?

By John Stoehr

…president, could have selected him to do what Joe Biden selected him to do tomorrow. Instead, Obama, because he was the first Black president, went out of his way to seem nonpartisan by selecting Rick Warren to deliver the homily. Warren, as you might already know, is the head of a mostly white evangelical megachurch in California. His politics are Obama’s opposite. He’s against abortion, same-sex marriage, LGBTQ-friendly laws and policies, etc. B…