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The Great Secret of Constitutional Law: Why Proposition 8 Will (and perhaps should) Be Upheld

By Bruce Ledewitz

…s, given my own longstanding support of same-sex marriage, it would be inappropriate for the court in California to try to reverse the considered decision of the people of that State on the matter of their fundamental law. Not only would it be inappropriate, it would not work. A judicial decision invalidating Proposition 8 would only be met by a judicial removal campaign or impeachment proceedings. Courts lack the power of coercion. The authority…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…us, what do you make of the huge role religion has been playing in the GOP presidential primary, in particular? I think that the rise of the “nones” is a really fascinating thing and it actually fits in with the idea of awakening much better than people think. For an awakening to happen, old institutions have to go away. What once existed has to change. What we’re in the moment of right now in American culture is that our old institutions, our way…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…ll U.S. adults said yes to that question. That figure includes evangelical Protestants, black Protestants, mainline Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Orthodox Christians. What are the potential effects of these changes politically? Before you do your secularist victory lap, here are five key considerations to keep in mind: 1. The first report on Pew’s data released today does not include its analysis of respondents’ religio…

More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim

By Sarah Posner

…tian, and only 14% did, with 45% saying they believe he is a Muslim. These numbers are more pronounced among evangelicals, with only 9% of evangelical likely Republican voters in Alabama believing the president is a Christian. Fifty percent—half of all the voters in the Alabama GOP primary—believe the president is a Muslim. The numbers are similar in Mississippi, where 70% of likely GOP voters identified as evangelical. Like in Alabama, where only…

For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…Buddhists spend their lives coming to see the world clearly, and the reconciliation is accomplished in the forming of that vision. So by the time one learns to see properly, the problem of science and religion, which appears so substantial to many, simply evaporates….

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…murders in the United State since 9/11. Yet counter-terrorism remained the number one priority of the FBI, which spends several billion dollars annually to prevent and prosecute Muslim terrorists. Is this myopic focus on Muslim terrorists doing all of us more harm than good? Finally, citizens and policy-makers must grapple with its never-ending war on terrorism abroad. For a significant portion of the country, the war on terrorism is, by definitio…

Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…he 4300 inmates already held within faith based programs by increasing the number of programs from four to six. While inmates in these facilitates choose the faith based programs over other options, it’s not, as proponents like to argue, fair to say that they choose to be there. Opponents of the plans argue that inmates in faith based programs enjoy a number of perks and better facilities than other inmates. But whatever the case, Scott’s plan wou…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…In this world, a government-sponsored National Day of Prayer may not be appropriate or Constitutional, but it fails most because, as a civic and as a spiritual event, it’s about as culturally relevant to the developing mainstream of American believers and non-believers alike as a National Day of Butter Churning. If religious leaders hope to influence the spiritual lives of believers and seekers, they are woefully misguided in hoping that some sor…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s a departure from the Episcopal Church.” Opening the Doors Too Far? The approval of a number of other resolutions unrelated to gender, sexuality, and relationships drew little media attention but nonetheless stirred controversy in the wider Episcopal and Christian cosmos as the General Convention came to a close. Chief among these is a resolution (C029) that a task force be created to study so-called “open communion”—the practice of allowing acce…

PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About

By Daniel Schultz

…cated, data-based understanding of religion, race, and authoritarianism. A number of large outlets covered aspects of PRRI’s recent survey report which offers important new insights into the landscape of authoritarianism and Christian nationalism in American politics. But in order to dig a bit deeper into the implications of this research, RD Senior Writer Daniel Schultz spoke to Jones about the popularity of authoritarianism, the tip of the GOP s…