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Supreme Court: Law School Christian Group Can’t Exclude Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tyle,‘” was refused an exemption from the law school’s anti-discrimination policy, which includes sexual orientation, in order to gain that recognition. The Court ruled 5-4 that the college’s decision did not violate the group’s First Amendment rights of association, free speech, and free exercise. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority: In requiring CLS—in common with all other student organizations—to choose between welcoming all stu…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…munity on immigration reform. Mary Giovagnoli, Director of the Immigration Policy Center, who at one time worked for the late Senator Ted Kennedy, recalled him urging colleagues to speak to the lobbyists for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops when they visited the Hill. Kelley added, “where the bishops engage on a very personal level, it makes a huge difference.” Those powerful groups—the NAE, the NHCLC, and the USCCB—all oppose the…

That Not-So-Mystifying Rick Warren

By Sarah Posner

…ist” ideas conservatives revile, but that are in reality merely Democratic policy proposals to regulate the economy. Just today, on Twitter, Warren used 140 characters to make a completely unsubstantiated claim about the superiority of the church over government in helping the poor: The Church has helped the poor far more than any govt, & for 2000 yrs longer! In 2011 our 1 church fed 70,000 unemployed. — Rick Warren (@RickWarren) April 9, 2012 Let…

Paul Ryan: I Reject Ayn Rand, She’s an Atheist!

By Sarah Posner

…ck Kemp in me, for the lack of a better phrase,” he says — crafting public policy from broad ideas. “How do you produce prosperity and upward mobility?” he asks. “How do you attack the root causes of poverty instead of simply treating its symptoms? And how do you avoid a crisis that is going to hurt the vulnerable the most — a debt crisis — from ever happening?” First, about that “dusty novel” Atlas Shrugged: here’s Ryan in a 2009 video he posted…

Fact-checking Scripture: “Those who do not work should not eat.”

By Daniel Schultz

…3. That’s a flub, but a relatively minor one. Meanwhile, the MAZON witness—policy director Josh Protas—was offering a gloss on Leviticus 19, which directs Jews to set aside harvest gleanings for the landless poor to gather. This is how people stayed alive in those days. The exchange illustrates the difficulties of using scripture in politics. Protas’ Leviticus citation has in part social applications: Jews are told explicitly not to cheat in their…

Will Romney’s VP Pick Win Catholic Voters?

By Joanna Brooks

…nd some observers believe that Romney’s inclusion of Poland on his foreign policy tour made less sense in terms of a foreign policy agenda than it did in terms of an appeal to Catholic voters—a theory that’s underscored by Romney’s release yesterday of a Catholic-directed campaign advertisement that features pictures of Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II and warns about attacks on religious liberty. But Catholics do not vote as a bloc, and Ryan h…

The Duggars To Headline Values Voters Summit

By Sarah Posner

…aim that that the UNFPA supported forced abortions under China’s one-child policy. More recently these same groups have disseminated a translation of a UN representative at 2009 conference in Mexico, in which he allegedly claimed that the dissolution of the family has been a triumph of human rights over the patriarchy. I’ve not been able to find a record of his actual statement in any language, but the quote “the high rate of divorces and births o…

The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation

By Susannah Crockford

…m’? Broadly, opposition to what they define as ‘mainstream’ healthcare and policy, particularly regarding regulation of vaccinations, supplements, and alternative therapies. More specifically, it’s a sense of fighting a war for bodily freedom and medical agency. The actions of Kartra in deplatforming the summit reveals a front of this war, as its soldiers fight censorship in the form of cancelled social media, webinars, and YouTube accounts. Label…

Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…at promoting the rights of LGBT people is an integral part of U.S. foreign policy. And in New York City on Tuesday, December 10, International Human Rights Day, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power met with an international group of LGBT rights activists at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. The gathering was described as a “roundtable strategy session on ways U.S.foreign policy can align more powerfully with LGBT communities globally t…

When the Golden Rule is Used to Silence Dissent and Protect the Politically Powerful

By John Stoehr

…hat’s not nice. As I said, Bruni isn’t wrong in terms of substance. He’s wrong in terms of engagement. He’s so aloof as to be extraterrestrial. This is the world we live in. This is the world we struggle to change. It’s not going to change if truth stops at the border of politeness. *I put “view” in quotes, because a lie is not an opinion. **Ted Cruz went to Cancun. Gov. Greg Abbott is AWOL….