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DADT Repeal: The New “Religious Freedom” Issue

By Sarah Posner

…r troops’ religious liberties in unprecedented jeopardy. Indeed, the first official casualty of this hurried vote may well be the religious freedom of chaplains and Service members.” Blomberg continued, “We hope that our nation’s leaders will work to ensure that none of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines are ever made to choose between serving their country or obeying their God as result of this damaging policy decision. And ADF stands rea…

When Conservatives Turn Revolutionary

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Classical goddess, framed by the words Egalité and Liberté. Interestingly, official documents did not mention fraternité, the common third term in the mantra of revolutionary French politics, except when a military administrator wished to soften the blow of some new pronouncement. “Liberty and equality” were the real revolutionary buzzwords, even when the letters heralding such fine-sounding phrases concerned the arrangements for stealing more Gre…

Wilma Mankiller: On the Passing of a Legendary Leader

By Johnny P. Flynn

…education, cultural and language revitalization—at a time when many tribal officials were elbowing each other out of the way to build gambling empires. She will be missed. Wilma Mankiller was born in 1945 in the Cherokee Nation capital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and lived her early life on her grandfather’s allotted lands. She often joked about the significance of her family name, Mankiller, but also noted seriously that the translation into English m…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the government, which it likens to Nazis and Communists. Last week British official released figures on the number of same-sex couples who got married between March 29 – the first day marriage was legally available in England and Wales, and June 30. Of the 1,409 marriages, 56 percent were to female couples. According to Gay Star News, about 120,000 people are in civil partnerships, which they will be able to convert to marriages beginning in Decem…

Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

By Peter Montgomery

…ies that show that about 90 percent of Catholics don’t follow the church’s official teaching on birth control, McCaulley said the group thought that since the bishop is “always willing to meet with priests,” they could raise the issue with Zubik and ask him to meet with laypeople, as “we didn’t feel competent to speak on women’s issues.” In Washington State, meanwhile, “A growing number of Seattle’s Catholic parishes are saying ‘no’ to Archbishop…

The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Friend of the Devil’ is a Love Song

By Pitman B. Potter

…e Devil,” co-written by Jerry Garcia and the band’s longtime lyricist (and official fifth member) Robert Hunter, is a good example. We are invited to empathize with the outlaw who is running from the sheriff and established society: “Got two reasons why I cry away this lonely night. The first one’s named sweet Anne Marie and she’s my heart’s delight. Second one is prison, babe. The sheriff’s on my trail. And if he catches up with me I’ll spend my…

Ten Religion Stories That Went (Mostly) Missing in 2015

By Peter Laarman

…he direction of the liberation theologians. This after a Little Ice Age of official Vatican hostility to the consciousness and the practice developed in Global South justice struggles. The U.S. bishops, most of them appointed by John Paul II and Benedict, have not been seen rejoicing over the idea that liberation thought is at least discussable again; they are certainly not seizing the opening to lend any concrete support to current justice strugg…

Why Hillary Clinton is Truly Unelectable

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tions of character matter in democratic politics. They should. Any elected official will face problems unimagined in the election season. All we can reasonably hope is that they possess the practical wisdom, and the subtle art of political timing, to see them through the inevitable rough seas ahead. Hillary fails that test before her ship leaves port. Now is not the time to run a legacy presidential campaign. Only reckless ambition, coupled with t…

The Tebow Effect

By Sarah Posner

…was no accident that the football star qua evangelist — and now the quasi-official spokesperson for the softer side of the anti-abortion movement — was given this distinct honor. His gridiron prowess fits perfectly with The Family’s fixation with a Jesus-as-strongman myth, and they could deliver the anti-choice message through him without uttering a word about abortion. Tebow is the new face of the anti-abortion movement. Women of America, if you…

Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment

By Jay Michaelson

…ur country is a place in which ethical values are adjudicated, even if our official institutions officially deny it. Fortunately, one of those values has to do with the separation of church and state, so the zone of adjudication is somewhat limited. But there’s no sense in denying that civil religion is at play in these contemporary debates, and has been in similar debates for two hundred and thirty years. My intention is neither to be fatalistic…