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The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…are two clauses that protect religious liberty in the First Amendment: the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause. During the same period in which the courts have lowered the bar for protecting the free-exercise principle, they’ve also cut back significantly on protections for the flipside of the coin, the anti-establishment principle. The combined trends, say many advocates, endanger the lofty constitutional pedestal on which religious…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…also the organizer of “Islamofascism Awareness Week” events on college campuses, which were not about “freedom” but rather portraying those who don’t share Horowitz’s worldview as un-American.) Other players in this orbit include Martin Kramer, who at one time edited Pipes’ Middle East Quarterly and is now at the neoconservative Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Steven Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism,…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…nancial burden on a group of religious persons was neither required by the free exercise clause nor prohibited by the establishment clause.” She suggested that there are a variety of ways in which Congress could constitutionally support ministers’ housing needs: by creating an exemption for all taxpayers whose nonprofit employers require them to live near work, for instance. But an exemption available to some religious employees, and no one else,…

Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

By Julie Ingersoll

…he production cost of whatever they make. Often what is framed as a choice between the free market and socialism is neither. Net Neutrality prohibits ISPs from charging for internet service based on usage. This seems straightforward to Barton and Green: “what they mean is we’re not going to let you choose who you need to charge more to.” But it’s not that simple. First, the internet service providers (ISPs) don’t “own” the internet. They own the m…

Gay Marriage Still Resonates As Top Issue Issue for Some Republicans

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who is considering a repeat White House bid. Huckabee told Roll Call last week that it may not be “the hot, dominant issue for the next year and a half,” but the conservative groups aiming for national attention are hoping to keep marriage in the headlines. Republicans point to ongoing battles in Iowa and New Hampshire to roll back gains in marriage equality in those states (both states allow full marriage ri…

Devil’s Bookmark: How Not to Defend God

By Bernard Schweizer

…God definitions are in play: “if the word God is not to become completely useless, it should be used in the way people have generally understood it: to denote a supernatural creator that is ‘appropriate for us to worship’.” Against this lowest-common-denominator definition of God, Dawkins offers his own take a few pages later: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.” To argue against that conception…

Conservative Bishops Unhappy At Synod, But Ignore Walkout Call; Australian Religious Leaders Step Up Marriage Equality Opposition; Italy Debates Civil Unions; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…written about how “like many gay men and lesbians in Africa, my choice was between economic freedom and mental imprisonment”. Now living in London, Alimi is an ardent campaigner against the rising tide of homophobia in Africa, but he is also an academic lecturer at two universities in Berlin as well as an advisor to the World Bank. Alimi says the consequences of homophobia in Africa have been legal penalties, social ostracism and mob justice. Much…

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…t ritual calendars of Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant churches. The tension between religious and standard times makes sense. In much of the world, rituals and religious institutions used to control time’s official demarcation. E.P. Thompson’s apocalypticism aside, that throwdown didn’t end entirely in favor of the modernists. We still group our days in clunky sets of seven, following a pattern laid out in the first chapter of Genesis. And, despite…

Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

By Kaya Oakes

…fugees from the Central African Republic during the “vicious cycle of war” between the CAR and South Sudan. Catholic religious orders, Momanyi says, keep the country running. “The church stands with the people when things go wrong.” Pollitt adds that there are some bishops and cardinals in the African church hierarchy “who live lavish lives when people around them are struggling.” In Kenya, the Pope will visit a slum in Nairobi. To get there, Moma…

SCOTUS Decision Changes the Meaning of Civil Religion in America

By Murali Balaji

…al interpretation and interventions, depending on who occupies the White House. Under Trump, however, civil religion has been broadly redefined to mean that the United States is exclusively shaped by and for white Christians (primarily evangelicals). Its rituals are now a deification of intolerance and mass rituals of white grievance and self pity. What the Court’s decision means is that people from Muslim-majority countries could just become the…