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North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks

By Manan Ahmed, Rohit Chopra, and Audrey Truschke

…parents have argued that teaching about anti-Black racism will result in white children being bullied, the Hindu Right argued that teaching about caste-based discrimination would result in Hindu (upper caste) children being bullied. White supremacists and Hindu supremacists share a desire to discriminate without consequences. The Hindu Right has also mobilized to intimidate scholars and academic institutions with an eye to dissuading any research…

Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…or who struggle to stay above the poverty line. Further, the depiction of white child-rearing and parenting as the de facto norm contributes to the national narrative that non-traditional families of color can never represent an authentic model of family. In reality, the numbers of same-sex families of color are increasing, especially in traditionally conservative Bible Belt regions in the South. African American strongholds like Atlanta have seen…

Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late

By Diana Butler Bass

…thousands eager to “prayer walk” a city for Jesus singing: Shine, Jesus, shine Fill this land with the Father’s glory Blaze, Spirit, blaze Set our hearts on fire Flow, river, flow Flood the nations with grace and mercy Send forth your word Lord, and let there be light The only thing “new” is that evangelical right-wing worship politics is no longer new. And that is the one thing the Times article missed. It is old. Not an oddity or some shocking…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…of 2010 Tammi Kromenaker, the director of RRWC, noticed something curious while watching the security camera footage one day. The annual anti-abortion “40 Days for Life” campaign, which claims to have “saved” thousands of “lives” since its launch in 2004, was underway and clinics across the country were seeing 24/7 vigils. One of RRWC’s protesters stopped for a minute and began reading from the forty prayers Kromenaker and her staff had put in the…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…letely naturalistic scientific system with other personal belief systems. Children are either ‘disinherited children of God’ or they are not.” King was writing of a people denied their civil liberties sitting down at lunch counters and “standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage.” McLeroy, in contrast, was outlining a strategy was to attack science’s naturalist worldview by up…

Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle

By Sarah Posner

…of worship, the regulation should also exempt religious institutions whose hierarchies believe contraception is a sin. Friday’s accommodation, in theory, doesn’t seem to impede womens’ access to contraceptive coverage, and if so may be harmless in practice. The politics of how it played out, though, have caused Obama’s Democratic critics to argue that they need to play a more prominent role in the party. (Meanwhile, not satisfied with the accommod…

Jesus Was Single

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ch a social convention runs in the United States today. Jesus may not have been married, but he went to weddings and even blessed one with wine. But he did not marry himself, and the modern state would not have recognized his relationship with the mysterious Mary at all. No tax breaks for Jesus and the Magdalene. So what to make of the legal sanction of a discriminating judgment that would make the Savior a second-class secular citizen?…

Stirring Up Trouble: Why Gay People Are Not “Over It”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…services. “When we saw them out there, we thought, ‘Why are they not over this? Do they think they’re going to change anything, or are they just stirring up trouble at our church?’ “ I imagine Sherrie, in her overflowing Christian compassion, would have told Gandhi to “get over it” when the British took control of India. Or she would have counseled Martin Luther King Jr. to “get over it” when Bull Connor came after civil rights demonstrators with…

Quaker Loses Job Over “Loyalty Oath”

By Peter Montgomery

…eturning to the classroom.” If you’re surprised to hear that someone being hired to teach at a California public university is required to sign a “loyalty oath,” a Los Angeles Times story about the case summarized the situation this way: The loyalty oath was added to the state Constitution by voters in 1952 to root out communists in public jobs. Now, 16 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main effect is to weed out religious believer…

Bless Your Heart! The Religious Right Tries to Be Civil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…st in dialogue. He has no interest in learning about what those who oppose him think or believe, or even how they arrived at that thought or belief. He just wants them to smile, slap him on the back, and get out of his way while he pursues his agenda. If they don’t, then he can paint them as the “uncivil” person or group who is obstructing his progress. Well, bless your heart, Mr. DeMoss, but to move this country forward, we’ll need more than civi…