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Church and State in Japan: The Case of the Yasukuni Shrine

By Mark R. Mullins

…unwilling to comply with requests for cancellation of enshrinement and removal of names from the register, a number of individuals decided to pursue legal action against both the shrine and the Japanese government. Several years ago, lawsuits were launched almost simultaneously by three different groups and are now being processed by the courts in Tokyo, Osaka and Okinawa. Unlike the issue of prime ministerial visits to Yasukuni, these court proce…

Mormonism’s Black Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…unding the extension of slavery to Utah territory. Whatever the actual motivation for the priesthood ban, Mormons soon articulated a number of working theological narratives to legitimate anti-African American discrimination, drawing liberally from European and European-American folk theologies that identified Africans and African Americans as the descendents of Cain or Ham. According to some Mormons, the priesthood ban was an element of the curse…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…“winner” nation over that of a theocratic one. In 2007, for example, conservative evangelical leaders threatened to go third party if the GOP nominated a candidate insufficiently opposed to abortion. In 2016, the party could well nominate the candidate (Trump) with the thinnest record opposing abortion and the lowest number of mentions of the issue on the campaign trail. And he’s doing this, according to some polls, with the support of at least a…

Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ted. Only 149 groups existed before Obama was elected in 2008. In 2012 the number had expanded to 1,360. Not all are plotting terrorist attacks, of course. But some are. In September 2012, Daryl Johnson, a terrorist analyst for the US Department of Homeland Security testified before a Senate committee that there was an “upsurge” of potentially violent non-Islamic extremist activity in the United States. So fingers point toward right-wing Christian…

It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ed, noting that in addition to wedding service-providers like bakeries and florists, dress-shops, hair salons, and “any number” of other businesses could claim that their services are in fact a form of constitutionally protected artistic practice. “The claim at issue here sounds as if the business can put up a sign in its window that says, ‘We sell cakes for heterosexuals only,’” Melling explained, taking ADF’s logic to its natural conclusion. “Th…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…to Scalia as I could find.” This, presumably, would unleash some new conservative Golden Age and make genuflection before the Trump idol worthwhile. Catholics, on the other hand, even the more conservative-leaning culture warriors, appear unwilling to give Trump a pass, even in the name of all that is holy to them: opposition to abortion and the restoration of Christian homogeny. Why? Steve Krueger, head of Catholic Democrats, told RD that, in ess…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…to churches. Let’s take each of these in turn. Myth 1: A Large and Growing Number of White Evangelical Protestants Do Not Attend Church The general assertion that church attendance has significantly declined among White evangelical Protestants is simply not supported by the evidence. In the general population, church attendance levels have indeed been dropping over the last few decades. However, church attendance levels among White evangelical Pro…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…ans United for Life, and the American Center for Law and Justice. As to private employers, the proposed rule takes note of the fact that private employers are not entitled to religious exemptions under other federal laws, such as Title VII, prohibiting discrimination in employment. Based on that precedent, the administration declined to extend an exemption to private employers here. The expansion of the exemption to religious entities other than…

Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ally think that Pope Francis’ gospel of inclusion, while shaking the conservative set, has attracted a far larger number of people back to the Church, especially the young.” The Philippines is the bulkhead of the faith in Asia, where 130 million Catholics now account for about 12 percent of the world total. That’s up from 5 percent in 1910, when 65 percent of the faithful were in Europe, according to a Pew Research Center’s survey. Europe now acco…

The End of Trust: YouTube, Lies and Videotape

By Trey Lyon

…is a large, real issue—London is still trying to sort it out—but many have fled to London as political refugees from oppressive, militant state such as Iraq and Iran. And then there’s the US — the suggestion on the number of Latino births is, as far as a I can tell accurate, however, they author of this video doesn’t mention that migrant Latinos are over 90% Christian! And the quote from Momar Qaddafi? no where to be found on the whole internet, e…