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“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce

By Kathryn Joyce

…p and attempt to put this traumatic lesson to good purpose, do you work on domestic violence initiatives that will make women feel safer—both within their marriages or in leaving them if necessary? Or do you use the story to illustrate a new divorce reform movement that re-labels the liberalized “no-fault” divorce standards adopted in the 1970s as “unilateral divorce” inflicted on one spouse without the other’s consent? If you chose answer B, ding…

The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…s allies continually employed when he attempted, as the centerpiece of his domestic agenda, to expand government’s ability to fund social services through direct grants to churches and other deeply religious groups. He depicted statutory and regulatory barriers that had, in the past, prevented such grants as unfair impediments to churches participating in the nation’s social-service fabric. Bush and his surrogates contended their efforts were atte…

A Seminary for Nonbelievers: Is A. C. Grayling Creating His Own Religion?

By Jessica Weisberg

…greater number of foreign students, whose tuition costs are double that of domestic students. He insists that many scholarships will be available. But when accused of religious intolerance, he just laughs. “How can you be a militant atheist?” Grayling said in an interview with the Guardian. “How can you be militant non-stamp collector? This is really what it comes down to. You just don’t collect stamps. So how can you be a fundamentalist non-stamp…

Fearful Saudi Conservatives Flexing Muscles

By Hussein Rashid

…ty is easy to see. It’s also the type of thinking that attempts to justify domestic violence. The larger question is why are Shi’ah being targeted by the Saudi state. Although most other Muslims are considered deviant by Wahhabi standards, the Shi’ah are especially scorned because of the love of the Prophet and his family that is part of Shi’i theological thought. As a result, the authority structures of Shi’ism are different than that of Sunni Is…

Catholics Fire Back at Bishops’ Anti-Gay Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…s also adamantly opposed to legal protections for same-sex couples such as domestic partnerships or civil unions. That, of course, puts the bishops at even greater distance from the people for whom they claim to speak, three-quarters of whom support some form of legal recognition for LGBT relationships. Attey and Palacios suggest that the new “religious liberty” campaign is a way to distract attention from that huge and growing gap. Palacios and A…

Egyptian Fatwa Gives Neighbors Right to Dissolve Marriages

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…sues that actually need outside intervention arise, such as in the case of domestic violence or child abuse, many neighbors and family members in any culture are often quick to sweep these issues under the rug rather than deal with them, even if a family member asks for help. Something tells me that this fatwa will not change the mindset that rejects these issues and meddles in other, less important affairs. While collectivist societies often have…

Stephenie Meyer, Mormon Feminist?!

By Joanna Brooks

…so much to critique when 600 million women worldwide live in nations where domestic violence is not a crime and when a wealthy industrialized nation like the United states is among the last eight countries on the planet not to offer paid maternity leave to working families. The facts may be more horrifying than the vampires. Or the fictional women who love them. Stephenie Meyer came late to writing because, by her own account, she never thought sh…

Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors

By Chrissy Stroop

…e full of hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots. Unsurprisingly, the number of ballots found in the truck, fraudulent or otherwise, was precisely zero. If you’re like me, when this story broke, the detail that most stood out to you was that an entity known as the Liberty Center for God and Country paid Aguirre $266,400 as part of its vigilante “investigation” into non-existent election irregularities. We wanted to know who pours that kind of…

Coakley v. Brown: Democrats Search (For) Their Souls

By Peter Laarman

…n wars and flog external threats in order to distract attention from gross domestic injustice. Check. Political and religious leaders alike collude in maintaining the illusion that there is no alternative to the status quo—or that, indeed, the status quo has been divinely ordained. Double check. Of course, just because faith communities have continuing access to this ancient but still-vital prophetic worldview, with its powerful narrative force an…

Campaigns of Omission

By Sarah Posner

…vernor’s mansion. There are bright spots: it looks like Washington state’s domestic partnership referendum is maintaining a narrow lead, and the Sarah Palin-endorsed Doug Hoffman lost his bid to represent New York’s 23rd Congressional District (where he doesn’t even live). But those sorts of setbacks don’t send the religious right into retreat; they only energize its sense of being on a divine mission against the secular, hedonist culture. The rel…