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Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…Church publicly declared its support for a “Utah Compact” designed by Utah business and political leaders identifying five principles to guide immigration debate. The Compact pushed for problem-solving at the federal level, discouraged the use of local law enforcement in profiling alleged “illegal immigrants,” opposed the unnecessary separation of families, and urged a simultaneously “humane” and “business-friendly” approach to immigration. The Ch…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…some extravagant, realistic creativity here, too. Start by recognizing the business interests that make us hire “illegals” for child care, elder care, restaurant work, and more. Those who think there are too many Mexicans here might want to rethink the United States’ trade and aid policies to Mexico so that it too could be an economically viable place for people to live. That would be an extravagant, realistic creativity. Religious people are also…

Rick Warren Urges Ugandan Pastors to Speak Out Against Proposed Anti-Gay Law

By Sarah Posner

…ell- known Purpose Driven Life and Church leadership training to churches, businesses and government on a national scale.” At the time, Warren said, “my challenge to business and government leaders is to use their influence for the glory of God and partner with local churches in solving community problems.” It would seem that even if he didn’t directly play a role in supporting the law or its promoters, he had a clear role to play in denouncing it…

‘Soul of Yoga’ at Stake in Texas Regulation Push

By Andrea R. Jain

…eligious or avocational as well as programs that do not offer marketing or business classes, last less than twenty-four hours, do not result in a degree or certificate, and cost less than $500 are exempt from the licensing requirement. Nevertheless, concerned that the TWC’s requirement will have undesirable effects on the Texas yoga community, many yogis oppose it. They argue that this is the first step toward requiring all yoga teachers to obtain…

It’s Bring Your Gun to Church Day

By Bill Berkowitz

…ng the torch to his youngest son to carry on the ministry.” Among the many businesses that the Moon family operates, none has played a more significant role in the growing of the modern-day conservative movement than the Washington Times. It is fair to say that since its first issue in 1982, the newspaper has likely opposed just about every civil or human rights initiative that Lowery has stood for his entire life. What was the Rev. Lowery doing c…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…n the side of people made poor and a planet ravaged by greed. For example, American Dorothy Stang, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur who later became a Brazilian citizen in light of her commitment, was deeply involved in helping small farmers maintain their land rights and in opposing big business. She was murdered for her efforts. Another factor for the choice of the Amazon was that the Catholic Church is rapidly losing market share to evangelical…

Catholics for Choice Blasts New Proposed Contraception Coverage Rule

By Sarah Posner

…nd — it’s good that you get coverage if it all works out. The devil is in the details. But the fact that you [the Obama administration] have given that concession to the business of higher education and the business of Catholic health care, that doesn’t bode well for the future.” …

Post-Orlando, Trump Reveals His Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…here, Greg Sargent explains, is on “Trump’s personal cruelty — not just in business, but also from the perch of his newfound media dominance.” It’s also a larger critique of what Trump presents as “strength.” To Trump being strong is being willing to offend you want and brutalize anyone who hurts you. It’s the core of a philosophy that justifies torture and advocates for the killing of innocent women and children. … This ad points doesn’t touch on…

Supreme Court to Hear Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Cases

By Sarah Posner

…d be seen as a “form of evangelism,” effectively deeming them “faith-based businesses” entitled to free-exercise rights. That, Briscoe contended, “is nothing short of a radical revision of First Amendment law, as well as the law of corporations.” The stakes, then, are very high. Depending on how the Court rules, it may decide whether the precedent represented most recently by Citizens United v. FEC—that corporations have free speech rights—dictate…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…olved when one breezily pronounces upon marriage as such: “I am out of the business of trying to tell people what they should do,” Mr. Torode said. “I am out of that business for good.” Ah, but I know from my own conservative days the kind of itchy discomfort that sort of a demurral brings. Not telling people what they should do! Why, one may as well say that there’s no right and no wrong and no truth, and that it’s all just about me me me and my…