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Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion is at the heart of a massive Religious Right coalition pushing to give business owners a broad legal right to discriminate against LGBT people and families as well as single parents based on their holding traditional religious views about gender, marriage and family. Shortly before his colleague was named to join the delegation, Ruse had been writing about C-Fam as a tiny David standing up against a Goliath of “sexual revolutionaries.” One of…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…n of interracial marriage and relationships in the last century) is that a business discriminating against same-sex couples is exercising a reasonable extension of their religious opposition to marriage equality. State legislation that included the Hobby Lobby principle in this way has been attempted in several states, but has so far only been enacted in Mississippi. A Hobby Lobby-type bill that passed in Indiana was later amended to explicitly ba…

Tim Tebow Takes a Knee, Cancels Appearance at Controversial Megachurch Celebration

By Joanna Brooks

…bow’s handlers might have urged him to cancel because Jeffress was bad for business. Those who have followed Jeffress’ media habits will not be surprised to find he’s making the most of the moment, dishing up interviews and grabbing airtime with just about anyone who will listen. But can the example of Tim Tebow, who is a member of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, speak louder than the voice of Robert Jeffress? Could Tebow convince the…

Are You Rapture Ready?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…look busy.” We’re so concerned to look busy—to look like we’re about God’s business in the world, that we forget what it means to truly be about God’s business in the world. Jesus isn’t some micro-managing boss who demands that we look busy or we’ll be in trouble. What God demands is that we do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. What God demands is that we love our neighbor just as much as we love ourselves and that we love God with all…

Trump the Totem: Like Other Fascist Leaders, Trump has Turned from Man to Symbol — And That’s the Danger

By Robert P. Jones

…s visible and therefore functional. An illicit affair, a divorce (or two), business fraud, a racist remark, denigrating the sacrifices of fallen soldiers, insensitively mocking a disabled person—any significant misstep may be enough to break the magical, often fragile social spell that binds the person to the symbol. Authoritarian rulers such as Trump, however, perform a sleight of hand that simultaneously hides the distinction between candidate a…

What Worker Justice Has To Do With Religion

By Kim Bobo

…om his treatment of employees. He replied, “I like to keep my faith out of business decisions.” Keeping faith out of business is the logical extension of separating concern for workers from theological conversations. Separating matters of faith and conversations about God into private realms, or squeezing them into an hour per week of worship, diminishes the value, scope and reach of faith. This closet view of religion and faith has persuaded too…

Rapture Fraud?

By Julie Ingersoll

…actions, contends the FFRF, “show that they neither behaved nor conducted business as if they sincerely believed that the world would end on May 21” and constitute “willful deception.” Carving out a space between fraud and protected religious claims, the FFRF makes an important distinction: Camping did not commit deceit and fraud in being wrong about the date of the Rapture; the question to be determined is whether he may have committed deceit or…

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

By Sarah Posner

…ally didn’t believe in the whole effort but it sure was good for political business.” To seal the deal, Brody has some breaking news: Trump is for a 20-week abortion ban. He’s for defunding Planned Parenthood. Sure, he used to be pro-choice, but he changed his mind on that in 2011—when he was running for president. What was that Brody wrote about that “homosexual” Mehlman? That he “really didn’t believe in the whole effort but it sure was good for…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…ary white Rhode Islanders to accept this tiny state’s outsized role in the business of African enslavement, let alone Indian enslavement. They don’t enjoy looking backward. They would rather tell you how proud they are that the state’s voters just decided to drop the awkward “…and Providence Plantations” from the state’s official name. Because there were never plantations here, and the name was confusing, they like to say. Except that there were p…

“A Most Ungodly Way to View Religious Freedom”

By Sarah Posner

…ssed SB 1062, a bill that would, if it became law, enshrine the ability of business owners to refuse service to customers based on their sexual orientation. The bill’s sponsors, as I wrote a few weeks ago, fear that the “religious freedom” of business owners is threatened by LGBT people asking them to bake a cake or snap some photographs. Here’s E.J. Montini, a columnist with the Arizona Republic, who says that “extremists in the legislature [are]…