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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ward enforcing the Johnson Amendment,” said Kreis. “It’s been particularly lax in terms of allowing religious nonprofits to engage in non-cost political activities. […] The concern, I think, has been more in terms of spending money. We don’t want folks to donate money to nonprofits, then have those monies in turn be used for electioneering purposes. That’s really what we don’t want.” Trump’s latest executive order could send a signal to churches a…

Archbishop Nienstedt Admits … No Wrong in Sexual Abuse Scandals; Pledges to Keep Doing What He Does

By Patricia Miller

…nleashed the current scandal when she charged that the leadership had been lax in its prevention and accounting of abuse.) It’s the kind of “apology” that many church officials have become practiced at when dealing with mushrooming sex abuse scandals: admit what they can no longer deny (but no more), deny any actual wrongdoing on the part of those charged with policing priests and abuse, and pledge a “new day” from here on in. In a statement, the…

Salvation, Purity, and Right Wing Activism: A Sampling of What Taxpayers Will Be Forced to Support as a Result of Carson v. Makin SCOTUS Ruling

By Chrissy Stroop

…rtainly no havens of LGBTQ inclusion, are nevertheless often somewhat more lax on the matters Maine points to in the brief—for example, they frequently allow non-Christians to enroll (which is uncommon in evangelical schools, though not unheard of). In the wake of the unsurprising but nonetheless disastrous decision by the (in my view illegitimate) Roberts Court, many will write about its deficiencies in terms of constitutionality, the Establishme…

“Nobody Is Innocent”: David Gushee on Sexual Ethics, Suffering, and Full Inclusion for LGBT Christians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me a long time and I hope that my regret for the long journey is clearly communicated in the book. I am sorry it took me so long to put it all together. It’s like being in a movie where someone is trying to crack a safe and there’s six numbers and you have to get all six numbers right for the safe to open. I think that’s what’s happened for me. Finally, all six numbers came up and I was able to open the safe and I could see this in a new way. Tha…

Televangelist Watchdog May Be Forced to Close Its Doors

By Sarah Posner

…has argued repeatedly, the problem results from gaps in the tax code, and lax enforcement of rules within it: because televangelism ministries, granted tax-exempt status as “churches,” do not have to file tax returns, their financial activities remain hidden. What’s more, although IRS rules prohibit excessive compensation of non-profit executives, and theoretically authorize the agency to fine non-profits whose executives receive such compensatio…

Why Palin’s “Baptism by Waterboarding” is Sacrilegious

By Hollis Phelps

…using her ire on the Obama administration’s supposedly benign attitude and lax policies towards “our enemies,” those “who would utterly annihilate America.” Palin’s remarks were, not surprisingly, on the generic side, but she clearly has so-called enhanced interrogation techniques—i.e. torture—in mind. Rather than “coddle” those who “obviously have information on plots, say to carry out jihad,” we should instead put “the fear of God in our enemies…

Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

…ically oriented, charismatic black men and myth-making intellectuals, is galaxies away from the clergy, congregations, denominations, and socially conservative religious worldviews and morals that are largely invisible to most Americans. Theologically conservative Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and a host of independent congregations have conditioned and influence the Christian ethos in black America. These theologic…

Of Mosques and Men

By Amina Wadud

…uman to human interactions. If the rest of the year one is sometimes a bit lax about the five times daily worship, Ramadan would be the time to get them back in order. Other Muslims choose other aspects of their own personal habits they wish to improve and focus on them in this month. Like Lent in Christianity. I remember one year, I decided it was a good occasion to stop using the dreaded four letter words. Well, anyway, I tried. It makes you mor…

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…ring young girls into getting same-day abortions; or that standards are so lax that workers with no medical training are dragooned into assisting in abortions. To hear them tell it, Planned Parenthood will force every worker, from the janitor to the accountant, to become a “murderer,” one way or another. Sue Thayer claimed that she was once forced to drive to a different Planned Parenthood clinic in Iowa to watch 25 abortions in one day, performed…

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…oliticians held decades before them. They’re joined by a small but growing number of majority non-white voters, activists, and elected officials who’ve grown disillusioned with a Democratic party that has repeatedly ignored its populist roots and embraced neoliberalism. Currently, we face a reactionary right-wing that’s attempting to impose white minority rule based on three principles: God, Guns, and [control of the] Government. The first princip…