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The Contraceptive Mandate and Animal Suffering

By Frances Kissling

In his latest Project Syndicate column, ethicist Peter Singer takes a novel approach to religiously-based requests for exemptions from following laws that serve to relieve suffering. Singer compares the objections of Jewish and Muslim groups in the Netherlands to a law that would require all animals to be stunned before slaughter. These groups claim the law would limit their religious freedom by altering mandated slaughter rituals which require t…

Republicans Charge Obama Is Anti-Catholic and Play Politics with Sex Trafficking Victims

By Sarah Posner

…n when Obama is clearly aiming to win over the “people of faith” vote. The latest charge takes aim at the administration because the Department of Health and Human Services did not award a new contract to treat victims of sex trafficking to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The story has been brewing for a week or so, but it’s starting to pick up steam in the form of false outrage over non-existent discrimination—and a possible congressiona…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…ions linked this emergent scriptural framework to a movement politics that promoted nonviolent direct-action tactics in service of integrationist aims. This approach proved remarkably successful aiding in the development of a unifying movement culture as well as forging important coalitional ties. Acknowledging this important but often obscured labor is essential not only to an accurate understanding of past struggles but to the success of futures…

Love the Sinner? Then Support Their Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

In his latest opinion piece for Baptist Press, Mike Goeke, an “ex-gay ministry” leader at Stonegate Fellowship Church in Midland, Texas, scolds churches for trying their best not to make homosexuality a “worse” sin than any other: The truth is that homosexuality IS different. It is not different as a “sin.” God sees the sin of homosexual expression as He sees all sin. It is different, however, in that no other sin (or, better said, an identity ba…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…ments on religious freedom, the Bishops’ religious liberty campaign is the latest evidence of the strengthening of the alliance between the Catholic Church and the evangelical right, whose precepts were laid out in the 2009 Manhattan Declaration, which stated: [W]e are especially troubled that in our nation today the lives of the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly are severely threatened; that the institution of marriage, already buffeted by pr…

Making Fun of Mormonism

By Max Mueller

…rmons’ “weird” beliefs is political. Mormons are the last (or at least the latest) religious “other” to confront the heart of American politics, to deem themselves American enough to ascend to the presidency. Mormon scholar Newell Bringhurst told me recently that that the current public debates over Mormonism reminds him very much of the debate over Kennedy’s Catholicism in 1960. “Would Kennedy take orders from the Vatican?” many leaders from the…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…s country. In Tunisia, the Islamists won a plurality of the vote; now, the latest news from Egypt suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, as well as the primary Salafi party, al-Nour, are doing quite well. (Jadaliyya has a great and exhaustive round-up, with all the detail you ever wanted). There will be three rounds of voting for the lower house of the Egyptian Parliament, and these results so far only reflect the first…

Why an Orthodox Anti-Gay Declaration is Actually Good for the Gays

By Jay Michaelson

…abbis urging zero tolerance for homosexuality in Orthodox communities, and promoting reparative therapy (newly rebranded as “gender affirming therapy”!) as the only “kosher” option for Jews “struggling with same-sex attraction.” It’s crucial to understand that this declaration does not represent the views of all, or even most, Orthodox Jews or Orthodox rabbis. It must be understood in the context of last summer’s Statement of Principles, now signe…

Anti-LGBT Equality NOM Seeks Legal Protection from Glaring

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…OM’s evidence to be lacking. Not a single state has backed up NOM.” In the latest ruling in California, the judge noted that the complaints of “harassment” were often protected forms of free speech including “picketing, protesting, boycotting, distributing flyers, destroying yard signs, and voicing dissent.” It’s easy to laugh at NOM for believing that being picketed or glared at is actually harassment when gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…Then again, such confounding should be no surprise considering much of the latest scholarship in the study of religion. Few know this better than historian Kathryn Lofton, a religious studies professor at Yale and author of Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, which examines how a television personality reveals to us our best selves, together with the rituals it takes to get us there. She is also a co-creator of Frequencies, a new online “collaborative g…