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GOP Education Bill Would Radically Rewrite Religious Freedom and License Virtually Any Form of Discrimination

By Patrick Hornbeck

…he Supreme Court is currently considering a widely publicized challenge to Colorado’s antidiscrimination law by a baker who on religious grounds refused to create a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Previous arguments of this sort, whether raised by bakers, photographers, or florists, have not gained traction in lower courts, although the justices seemed sharply divided at December’s oral arguments in the Colorado cake shop case. However…

Gaining Except-ance: Army Chaplain Who Says “I Don’t” to Same-Sex Wedding Should Not Be Reprimanded

By Patrick Hornbeck

…cted the status/conduct distinction, although the plaintiffs in the recent Colorado bakery case appear subtly to have tried to revive it. In the context of chaplaincy, however, status/conduct distinctions are broadly permitted. Consider the examples I gave earlier. Is the Orthodox rabbi discriminating against the mixed-religious couple because of their religious identities, or because they are seeking to marry each other? Is the Baptist minister d…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…ion, Bill Dallas of United in Purpose (a Christian Right strategic and capacity building organization), Buddy Pilgrim, a businessman who served as National Director for Faith & Religious Liberty for the 2016 presidential campaign of Ted Cruz, and of course David Barton. The Project Blitz report was published at the end of 2017 and is central to the Christian Right’s agenda in the states. Both a review of the political lessons of the past, and a pr…

Navy Yard Shooting: Why It’s Not a Religion Story

By Michael Jerryson

…committing suicide. There was no popular inquiry into Cho’s Christian background and how it might provide justifications for his attacks, even though his suicide letter talked about dying like Jesus. A few years later on July 20, 2012, James Eagan Holmes entered a Colorado cinema and opened fired on the Dark Knight audience. He set off tear gas and opened fire, killing twelve people. Similar to Cho’s attack, most news stories did not focus on Holm…

Will the Catholic Church Throw Cold Water on the LARC Revolution?

By Patricia Miller

…ent to doctors for IUDs to encourage their use based on the success of the Colorado program, the Illinois Catholic Health Association objected to the program, saying it might force its providers out of the Medicaid system. Illinois says it will not require Catholic hospitals or doctors to provide IUDs, but may require them to file a referral plan with the state, which the Illinois Catholic Health Association indicated would still be objectionable,…

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ge of the Strategic Prayer Apostolic Network, Apostle Rebecca Greenwood of Colorado states that she was a “member of Peter’s apostolic roundtable, Eagles Vision Apostolic Team, which is made up of those he considered to be his closest spiritual sons and daughters.” In his recent book Modern-Day Apostles, Ché Ahn mentioned other notable EVAT members at the time such as: Lance Wallnau, Ed Silvoso, and Bill Hamon. EVAT was a close and exclusive netwo…

Forget Debates and Dialogue about LGBT Justice, the Religious Right isn’t Listening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…You outline a secret summit in 1994 at the Glen Eyrie conference center in Colorado Springs, Colorado where 55 fundamentalist Christians gathered to discuss the consequences of the “militant homosexual agenda.” What happened there? I compare it to the Nazis creating a solution for the Jews. These guys literally crafted a solution to the homosexual problem. The record of that conference, which was very secretive, wasn’t even released to the press….

Ordered To Remove Her Hijab, Army Sgt. Felt ‘Religiously Raped’

By Paul Rosenberg

…to do in public. While some details of the incident—first reported by the Colorado Springs Independent—are in dispute, these basic facts are not. It wasn’t the first anti-Muslim experience Valdovinos had faced in the Army. She says she’s been called a “terrorist” and made to work with pork for a time. The day after this most recent incident, on the advice of a Muslim chaplain, she emailed Mikey Weinstein, head of the Military Religious Freedom Fo…

Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in Masterpiece

By Patrick Hornbeck

…noteworthy. The Court’s reticence to engage in line-drawing about the capacity of cakes (or flowers, or hairstyles, or any number of other products) to be expressive may have the consequence of drawing out more clearly the conflict at the heart of Masterpiece Cakeshop. As Justice Kennedy rightly noted, the case is about “the proper reconciliation” of, on the one hand, “the authority of a State… to protect the rights and dignity of gay persons” an…

Religious Freedom Battle Is Far From Over: Here’s What to Look for in 2019

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ce Cakeshop Last year’s most prominent dispute was Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case involving a baker, Jack Phillips, who refused on religious grounds to make a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in December 2017 and issued its 7-2 ruling in June. Disappointing partisans on both sides, the Court neither affirmed that antidiscrimination laws apply across the board, n…