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“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…our protections under federal civil rights laws. That’s why they need our signature.” While Veit claims to be merely cleaning up “misinformation” about the case, she fails to mention that the administration has already told the Little Sisters and other plaintiffs that they don’t have to sign the so-called permission slip—they can simply send a letter to HHS stating their intent to opt out. Even constitutional scholars with a conservative take on…

WWJD Or The First Amendment?

By Sarah Posner

…’s obviously an argument to be made that Christianity shouldn’t be used to promote war, and shouldn’t be used to seemingly promote religious war between Christians and Muslims. But constitutionally speaking, the issue isn’t “abusing” faith but having it play a role at all. That’s a problem in the military that runs much deeper than Trijicon’s inscriptions. UPDATE (1/22/10): Trijicon has agreed to voluntarily remove the scripture engravings from th…

Are Christians Theologically Prepared to Accept Torture?

By Sarah Sentilles

…25. 2. Paul A. Taylor, “The Pornographic Barbarism of the Self-Reflecting Sign,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4, no. 1 (January 2007) 3. Steven C. Caton, “Coetzee, Agamben, and the Passion of Abu Ghraib,” American Anthropologist 108, no. 1 (2006): 120. 4. Joanne Wypijewski, “Judgment Days: Lessons From the Abu Ghraib Courts-Martial,” Harpers, February 2006. 5. Mark Danner, “The Depositions: The Prisoners Speak,” in Torture and Tru…

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…h of Satan, headed by Magus Peter H. Gilmore, for being more interested in promoting their brand then in challenging the status quo. In early January the Temple released sketches of their statue. Peter Gilmore poo-pooed the design, saying it smacked of pedophilia. On Fox Business News, producer Bernard McGuirk suggested that Satanists should be lined in front of their statue and shot. Lawyers from the Satanic Temple demanded an apology. FEBRUARY I…

New Pope Accused of Conspiring in Kidnapping

By Nicole Greenfield

…atura!” (Church. Garbage. You are the dictatorship!)—today became—“Bergoglio. Basura. Vos sos la dictadura.” Habemus Papam Franciscum! Check back (or sign up for the newsletter) for a more detailed profile of the new pope. …

Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…say what opinions we should have. In Maryland, I’ve only seen one call for signature gatherers that went out over one congregation’s email list. But even without formal LDS Church involvement in Maryland, you feel compelled to take a more political stance than the Salt Lake City marchers. Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail said, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people…

Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)

By Becky Garrison

…well-heeled Episcopalian aunt in Portland who sports a Black Lives Matter sign on the front lawn while paying her Latinx housekeeper minimum wage. Then read it yourself and learn how we all can work toward genuine racial equality. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Little, Brown and Company)by Ronan Farrow Gift this to your creepy Tom Clancy-loving uncle. He’ll love this book because you know how much these armcha…

How Did the Buddha Become a Medieval Saint?

By Peter Manseau

…se tale, we learn, the Buddha keeps his genitals “hidden in a sheath” as a sign of his detachment from the world. Yet he seems far from detached when a group prostitutes taunt that he “lacks a functioning male member.” The fifth-century text continues: When the Buddha heard this, [his organ] gradually emerged like that of a horse king. When it first appeared it was like the bodily organ of an eight-year-old-boy, and it gradually grew into the shap…

Religious Leaders Pledge to Protect Religious Freedom—For Everyone

By Sarah Posner

…at 50 religious leaders, including the 21 who were on the Cathedral steps, signed reads: I, ______________, pledge and commit to the American people that I will uphold and defend the freedom of conscience and religion of all individuals by rejecting and speaking out, without reservation, against bigotry, discrimination, harassment and violence based on religion or belief. The event was hosted by the Cathedral and the Shoulder-to-Shoulder campaign,…

Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

By Kathryn Joyce

…tion of the aims and principles of the submission and patriarchy movement. Signers affirm their belief that women and men were designed to reflect God in “complementary and distinct ways”; that today’s culture has gone astray distinctly because of its egalitarian approach to gender (and that it’s “experiencing the consequences of abandoning God’s design for men and women”); and that while men and women are equally valuable in the eyes of God, here…