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100 Religious Leaders to Obama: No Religious Exemption in ENDA Executive Order

By Sarah Posner

…les faced by those at the margins is precisely the opposite of what public service can and should do, and is precisely the opposite of the values we stand for as people of faith. As I reported last week, a group of 14 faith leaders — led by former Obama staffer turned religious consultant Michael Wear, and signed by several large faith-based government contractors — called on Obama to include a religious exemption. BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner reporte…

Parting Words For and From Bob Edgar

By Peter Montgomery

I went to a memorial service Wednesday for Bob Edgar, the president of Common Cause, who died suddenly last month. (See Peter Laarman’s RD piece on Edgar’s legacy here.) The service was packed with social justice activists as well as current and former members of Congress. Edgar, a liberal Democrat, had been elected to six terms in the House of Representatives from a staunchly Republican congressional district because he had such a strong reputat…

God in the Inauguration: JFK, Bush, and Obama

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…y celebrations and Thanksgiving Day, Veterans Day parades and Memorial Day services, in the singing of the National Anthem at sporting events and in the daily recital of the Pledge of Allegiance in American classrooms. One of the most important and high-profile of such ceremonies is a presidential inauguration. “It reaffirms, among other things,” Bellah wrote, “the religious legitimation of the highest political authority.” That is, the rhetorical…

No, the Democratic Party Is (Still) Not the Party of God

By Daniel José Camacho

…t” is basically anything not Republican. “Liberal Christians often pay lip service to many politically radical Christian thinkers and activists while lining up behind the political and economic forces that they fought against. ” (Note: in this piece, I use progressive/liberal Christian to designate those who self-identify as such theologically, or who self-identify as not conservative theologically. Politically, self-identifying Christian liberals…

God and Prop. 8: New Poll Holds Surprises on Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…59 percent supporting workplace protections and 50 percent supporting open service in the military. The two groups were largely divided over gay adoption as well with 51 percent of Latino Catholics in support, but only 27 percent of Latino Protestants in support. “You see closer correlations between Latino Catholics and Protestants on individual rights like in the workplace and military service, but we see the bigger breaks when it comes to family…

‘Exporting Garbage to the Nations’: Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like Cracked Glass

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ldview, but as a series of false claims of God-given pronouncements in the service of political and other opportunities. (Hume and others think that this is more grift than the gift of prophecy.) Hume’s purist approach is not only intolerant of charismatics, but much of what passes for modern conservatism. He writes that “these movements and personalities,” including ReAwaken America, MAGA, Julie Green, and Sean Feucht, “present an extremely shall…

“Man of Steel” Brings Muscular Message to Oppose Right-to-Die Legislation

By Ann Neumann

…,” wrote the National Catholic Register in March, emphasizing his military service. Does Hanson’s muscular Christian approach represent a viable future for the anti-aid-in-dying movement? Probably not. But the reasons it fails are instructive. Hanson’s message—of reliance on God, of fighting against all odds, of the soldier suffering for family, nation, and a higher purpose—appeal to the (male) patriotism and paternalism of social conservatives. B…

I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…w you to list yourself and search others by religion, but there are dating services that cater specifically to Christians, Jews, or Muslims. And, of course, there are many shades of “Catholic.” St. Monica parishioner Molly Harrington, who isn’t involved in YMA’s dating scene, signed up for CatholicMatch.com during Lent one year. The site asks users whether they accept the church’s teachings on seven issues, from the Eucharist and Immaculate Concep…

Mormon ‘Humorist’ Robert Kirby Is Butt of His Own Dirty Joke

By Holly Welker

…the women in his life, “Hey, how funny would it be if I asked a woman my daughter’s age to pretend she’s a whore?” Did the women who know him best give him a thumbs up and say the joke was a good one? Kirby writes, “I believe this entire thing could have been resolved amicably if she had contacted me as soon as possible.” What would Kendrick have contacted him about? What was there to resolve? The misjudgment was entirely his, but again he imagine…

Ponzi Schemes and Prophecy

By Sarah Posner

…d hit 36,000) opined that Social Security was like a “Ponzi scheme” in the service of his argument that it should be privatized. (His failed prognostications on the robustness of the stock market should’ve put a big pin in that trial balloon.) And if you read the Austrian school economists and bloggers at the Von Mises Institute, you will find the inapt analogy deployed frequently as well. While not comparing Social Security to a Ponzi scheme, Bac…