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Religious Freedom Battle Is Far From Over: Here’s What to Look for in 2019

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ar, when a federal judge in Wisconsin found the relevant portions of the tax code to be unconstitutional, but the three judges on the appellate panel did not tip their hand, although they showed few outward signs that they agreed. The regulation at issue is more than sixty years old, enacted in the 1950s to ensure that ministers at churches who could not afford to provide them with housing could nevertheless benefit from the same tax breaks as min…

Bachmann’s Law School Mentor Asserts Biblical Roots of American Political System

By Julie Ingersoll

…e of his talks at Vision Forum’s 2009 conference, he presented a Calvinist teaching widely popular among Reconstructionists that when leaders depart from their biblically mandated and limited roles it is the duty of lower level officials (lesser magistrates) to “interpose” themselves between the people and those leaders. This is the theological context in which Reconstructionists suggest that gun ownership is a biblical responsibility, and the tea…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n gays and lesbians who want to marry. Jesus, who said nothing about homosexuality, had plenty to say about heterosexual couples who divorced. Throughout the Bible, divorce has been strongly condemned and only allowed under certain circumstances—mainly when the woman cheats (but not the husband)—but even then, divorce is a great source of shame for both parties. A lot has changed in religious circles over the millennia. When my father divorced my…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…e Muslim Brotherhood lurks in every corner of America. This document, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” — authored by a single Brotherhood member in 1991 — is virtually unknown to people outside the “creeping shari’ah” and “stealth jihad” cottage industry, but within that world it has been used to create a mythology around a supposedly global plot. That document lies at the heart of the Clari…

Gays Losing Value to “Value Voters”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ue voters” in Iowa agree with those who huddled in DC this past weekend – there are more important things to worry about than what the gay couple up the street does in bed. When they go to the ballot box next year, the majority of Iowans (63 percent to be exact) say it will be other issues that will determine how they vote and not their fear of Adam and Steve or Amanda and Eve….

A Jew in Church? No Big Deal

By Benjamin Weiner

…n of the young Orthodox bourgeoisie—Jews like himself who he terms “metrodox,” raised with the social expectations of their worldly peers while simultaneously beholden to an arcane and restrictive code of behavior—is actually rather compelling. “Being tugged in one direction by the secular world and in another by the religious world, they have styled their own compromise,” he says, “[and yet] they also feel an unbearable sense of loneliness and de…

A Link to Jewish History, RBG’s Iconic Collars Were a Beacon for the Marginalized

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…donated one of her collars to the museum last March; it will appear in the new core exhibit opening there this winter. ““She was a righteous person,” Shula Bahat, a museum representative, told NPR. “She was totally dedicated to the values of Judaism.” Justice is indeed the Jewish value with which Ginsburg, the first woman and first Jewish American to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol, was known. Another Jewish value—less known to the general public…

Whistleblower Alleges $100B Hoarding Scandal by LDS Church; But There’s An Easy Fix

By Andrew L. Seidel

…bit the church from hoarding this wealth (though other provisions of the tax code do). Transparency would simply require the church to disclose the details of their cache. Sunlight does not burden religious liberty, it cures fraud and abuse. Asking for transparency from every nonprofit is perfectly legal, but Congress has not acted. In an era of congressional gridlock and where civil rights laws demanding equality are maligned as anti-religious li…

Jose Antonio Vargas’ Coming Out and the Power of Stories over Religious Remonstrances

By Sarah Posner

…as, moderating, interjected, “White people have to talk to white people about white privilege.” More stories. Vargas told his today and launched his new site Define American. With his example, there will be more stories….

Express? It’s the Straight Talk Script

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…icult challenge. He needs to own his Liberal religious credentials and to explain why they are sensible. And he must do so in an increasingly “know-nothing” religious atmosphere. His most reasoned issues are taken as evidence that he’s had too much legal training and isn’t really religious. Meanwhile, McCain’s strident univocality is taken as a sign of faith. It really is all upside down. But the challenge on the left in this election season will…