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Refusal of Interracial Couple Shows How Slippery the Slope of LGBTQ Refusal Really Is

By Heron Greenesmith

…ircuit Court’s approval stand and the law to go into full effect. As the Christian right, bolstered by evangelical donors and the Trump administration, continues to undermine justice for LGBTQ people through religious exemptions based on a narrow theology, rhetoric like that of the Mississippi wedding hall owner gives one pause for thought. In states where same-sex marriages neither need to be solemnized nor honored, are interracial marriages far…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…he world today, their different social and political contexts, and their varied histories. Neither my work nor our project takes a position for or against religious freedom. To assume that it does is a misunderstanding of what is in fact a much broader and more encompassing set of research aims and objectives. We are interested in laying out the kind of work advocacy for religious freedom has done, and continues to do, in various societies, and in…

Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

By Seth Sanders

…en God will redeem all of reality, is a goal so desirable as to be like a bride in waiting for marriage. Thus it is in a mystical commentary on the Song of Songs that Israel is first commanded to swear three oaths: not to “ascend the wall” to where the Messiah (the Bride) waits, not to “rebel against the nations of the world,” and not to “force the End [times].”¹ The statement is enshrined in the Babylonian Talmud, the richest source of Jewish law…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…atholics, Jews and progressive church leaders—spoke truth to power. Their priorities differed as much as their theologies. But Dorothy Day, Reinhold Niebuhr, Mary McLeod Bethune, Abraham Joshua Heschel and their ilk all acted on the belief that doing God’s work began by serving justice. This vision had already gone awry when Martin Marty, writing in The Christian Century in 1973, sought a new role for the church in a “suddenly different world.” Ma…

RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

…uch of American evangelical theology. Historically the latter has focused primarily on the individual. There have been exceptions, evangelical lobbying for prohibition laws, to name one. But the focus on saving individual souls has had a tendency to override biblical concerns for social justice. There is nothing wrong with this as far as it goes, but it doesn’t fully recognize the complexity of human evil. Reinhold Niebuhr pointed out that it is f…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…o pay for it a year from now. You shouldn’t buy “bundles,” enormous collections of bad debt, or worse still, imaginary insurance policies, simply because the person selling them has called them “securities.” This crisis is ironically not psychological at all, though much of the pain is. No, this crisis in empirical, a simple matter of numbers (and words) not adding up. And the reason they don’t? Because people, really bad people, lied about them,…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…amuel—just available enough to be venerated, just absent enough to be mysterious, and favoring flashy suits. The Church backs up this spectacle with genuine material support, and genuine political heft. Surrounding the temple in Hermosa Provinica are some of LLDM’s social service agencies. There’s a church-run hospital a few blocks away. The church bans drinking and smoking. For decades, church members have voted as a bloc for the powerful PRI par…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…op of a mainstream media giddy with reports of the demise of the religious right. Right off the bat, longtime leaders of the religious right, monitoring every move Obama’s transition team makes, will distribute angry press releases critical of Obama administration appointees. Organizations will post heated blog entries and dash off daily e-mail alerts to supporters cataloguing a host of Obama missteps including complaints about the reversal of a n…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…s Coalition possibly sets the stage for what is to come from the religious right during an Obama administration. The subject line of the e-mail was “Obama’s Policies: Your Congregation’s Right to Know,” and the perspective—predictably anti-gay and anti-abortion—was provided by a new media outfit called The Judeo-Christian View. Dr. O’Neill Dozier, the General Publisher of JCV, claims to have an initial print circulation of over 325,000 and an e-ma…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nment of Gambia, meanwhile, issued a statement last year in response to American criticism of its persecution of gays, saying that “decadent and ungodly societies” would not change the country’s values. Barry is scheduled to visit Kiev, or Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on June 7-8. World Congress of Families: WCF elects NOM’s Brian Brown president; SPLC reports on summit Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, has also be…