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Sure, There’s No ‘Religious Left’… If You Ignore Non-White Christians and Non-Christians

By Daniel Schultz

…really isn’t, if you mean a cohesive national movement advancing a unified policy agenda analogous to the Religious Right. That’s in fact why I never capitalize “religious left”: I don’t believe there’s a single entity you can point to. On a national level, we have what I’ve sometimes derided as the “Religion-Industrial Complex,” which specializes in amplifying religious left voices and coordinating their direct action (generous interpretation), o…

As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

By Katherine Kelaidis

…in 5 Serbs describe themselves as supporters of Putin’s Russia in foreign policy, while half support continuing the Yugoslav-era policy of non-alignment. It’s not support for Russia or Putin which motivates the anti-Western attitude among young Serbs today, but rather a feeling that Serbia was wronged by the West during the Yugoslav War and Kosovo Wars in the 1990s—a wrong that many see as emerging from the West’s willful misunderstanding of the…

It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

By Patricia Miller

…tein. Goodstein was slammed on Twitter. Ed Whelen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center called it a “hit piece” and disputed both the fact that Barrett was obliged to disclose her membership and that the Catholic Church doesn’t teach the concept of “male headship.” As Daniel Burke of CNN noted on Twitter, it appeared to be a “well-coordinated response” to the piece: “Nominee clams up, PoP cleans up and Fed[eralist] Society attacks.” Both response…

On The Silence Of ‘The Lamb’s Agenda’: An Open Letter to Rev. Samuel Rodriguez

By Peter Laarman

…get out.” Rev. Mohler continues: “It’s that the entire moral landscape has changed. An increasingly secularized America understands our positions, and has rejected them.” You appear not to grasp this reality in still seeking “sanctification” of the culture and of our politics. According to exit polls your own base of support—Latino Protestants—voted for President Obama in numbers almost equal to the proportion of Latino Roman Catholics who voted…

Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…os said this is about ‘unit cohesion, it’s about combat effectiveness.’ No policy change should be made that does not improve readiness, and it is clear that allowing open homosexuals to serve will have the opposite effect. It will weaken rather than strengthen our military.” Of course, none of those fears came to pass. As today’s Pentagon study notes: “[B]y 1953, 95 percent of all African-American soldiers were serving in racially integrated unit…

It’s Still Your Fault: The Cubit’s Guide to Blaming

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…red blame in the twenty-first century. We approached scholars, scientists, policy experts, and theologians to ask how blame takes shape in the contemporary public square. If you haven’t been keeping up, you can read the introductory post or explore the full series. We learned about killer robots, imaginary bathroom creepers, and the role of public housing policy in creating America’s Fergusons. We questioned our own hatred of Monsanto and made a m…

Religious Discrimination and the Violence Against Women Act

By Sarah Posner

…e to Congressional questioning, the Department of Justice finally made its policy clear: if “a religious organization that applies for funding and requests an exemption under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to enable it to prefer coreligionists in employment, notwithstanding a statutory prohibition on religious employment discrimination,” it may receive such an exemption if it certifies (1) that it provides services to all, regardless of the…

Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…nted months ago.” True enough. Those of us who watch closely have seen the changes coming. And of course the Church rejects the idea that non-Mormon activism drives Mormon doctrinal change. But I suspect that the Church newsroom is reacting less to sensationalistic journalism (a time-honored problem for LDS people) than to the difficulty of controlling informational narratives in the digital era. Yes, it’s a brave and sometimes uncomfortable digit…

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…s willing to risk death to make a point.” Chavez recognized that political change in the United States amounted to a battle over hearts and minds, and that the battle field was a fickle American imagination. Still, Chavez suffered from insomnia and a largely benign megalomania. He is a tragic hero. In AZ, the state where the American alphabet begins and ends, there is battle for the hearts and minds of a flamboyantly religious population which con…

Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity

By Anthea Butler

…ed him to provide the imprimatur of Christianity for an American activity, policy or action. Richard Nixon would use Graham in this way by having him open the “Honor America Day” events on July 4, 1970, which Nixon envisioned as a way to bring the country together after the Kent State massacre and the toll of the Vietnam War. Graham led a prayer service on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Graham’s sermon included checking the “stitches” (on the…