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UCC First Church to Sue State Over Gay Marriage Ban

By Peter Montgomery

…is congregants who have been together for 14 years. “My denomination — the United Church of Christ — authorizes me to perform these ceremonies, but Amendment One denies my religious freedom by prohibiting me from exercising this right.” The United Church of Christ, which has nearly a million members, in 2005 approved a resolution endorsing marriage rights for same-sex couples. The story quotes Jonathan Martel, a lawyer with Arnold & Porter, saying…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…istian Right, by the right-wing media, by the conservative lawmakers and the militias. As the tentacles reach out for each of us in turn, we must be united in our resistance. It’s only through a united front, a united community of care, that we can fully resist. We are worthy of more. We are worthy of more than survival. And we are also worthy of survival….

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…dgets from the government. Then there’s the idiosyncratic situation in the United States whereby health coverage, for a lot of people, comes through their employer. Employers who provide health coverage in the U.S. aren’t doing charity. In the United States it’s how most people get health coverage. That’s the system we have. Catholic institutions employ non-Catholics, and contraception is a part of basic health care for most people, for good reaso…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…ld participate in and adapt to their local American communities. A major impetus for the rise of Catholic schools in this country was anti-Catholicism. Catholic schools and organizations such as the Knights of Columbus, like Jewish organizations and Community Centers, became safe havens through which distinctly American Catholic and American Jewish communities and identities were formed. In recent years, an American Muslim identity is also emergin…

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

By Mark LeVine

…f for the benefit of corrupt but charismatic leaders is as relevant in the United States and Europe—where metal was born and its extreme narratives were shaped—as it is in the Muslim world, where it flowered not long after. If the music can encourage greater introspection among its young fans in the United States and increased communication and understanding between them and their counterparts in the Middle East, metal might one day be credited wi…

Anti-Choice Groups Target Anti-Choice Democrats With Health Care Lies

By Sarah Posner

…ng in the PPACA. Earlier last week, the political advocacy group Catholics United — which had helped round up Catholic support for the final health care bill that was opposed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and other participants in the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition — gathered over 30 signatures of Catholics in the Cincinnati area, including 11 nuns, calling on the SBA List “to stop making the false claim that Congressman…

Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?

By Sarah Posner

…f Church and State, the National Council of Jewish Women, leaders from the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, and others are calling for full coverage of abortion access in health care reform and to “ensure the final health care reform bill respects diverse religious beliefs,” according to a press release from the RCRC. The sequence of events leading up to the Stupak amendment demonstrates the propensity for advocates of “common…

Christianity and Condoms

By John Blevins

…l arguments. These mechanisms do not merely reinforce this identity in the United States. They are part of the prevention messages exported by the United States to other countries under PEPFAR. For example, True Love Waits, the abstinence support model developed by American evangelicals, has become the predominant governmental HIV prevention strategy for young people in Uganda. This strategy is funded through PEPFAR and the initiative is spreading…

Worse Than Madoff: Amway Launches Domestic Revival

By Bill Berkowitz

…mbrella company called Alticor Inc., which does business as Quixtar in the United States and Canada and as Amway Corp. throughout the rest of the world. Whatever name it goes by, Amway is in the process of launching a major comeback in the United States. A Scam by Any Other Name Over the last four decades of the 20th century, Amway became a phenomenally successful company, and is now the second-largest direct sales company in the world. In 2007, A…

Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law

By Andrew L. Seidel

Americans must stop thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a court of law. It’s a court bent on giving political whims the force of law and on converting America into a Christian nation. Some of its most significant recent decisions hasten that conversion. Last week, the court compelled taxpayers to fund “religious indoctrination” at Christian schools. It then forced a narrow, conservative Christian religious belief onto the entire countr…