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Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ious motivations. The judge denied that motion too, at the end of the last business day before the trial was scheduled to get underway. The Plowshares trial is one of a handful of cases that have unfolded across the country in recent years that upend the conventional religious freedom narrative. Far more frequent have been disputes in which politically conservative religious actors have sought exemptions from laws that, in their view, mandate thei…

Karger Says He’s Anti-Homophobia, Not Anti-Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…faith can use his influence to get his church out of the anti-gay marriage business. When he did his book tour at [LDS Church-owned] Deseret Bookstores a year ago, I ran advertisements: “Please get your church out of the marriage equality business.” If it’s between stopping gay marriage and getting a president, I think the church would rather have a president. There’s so many wonderful things the LDS Church does. Why focus on gay marriage? JB: …

Dispatches from the Workplace: Is that Shari’a?

By Kim Bobo

…lf is clean.) Islamic or Shari’a-compliant investing, therefore, prohibits business activities—like gambling, alcohol, and usury—that result in undignified moral behavior. In the Muslim world, more and more companies and financial institutions are aiming toward Shari’a-compliance, with millions of dollars at stake. Huge conferences are organized among business leaders to discuss and review Shari’a compliance, while in the U.S., Harvard University…

Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Ambassador Nikki Haley had in mind when she pledge to ‘unabashedly promote American values.’” C-Fam has teamed up Russia and anti-equality African and Islamist nations to try to undermine the Council’s newly created independent expert, who is charged with investigating discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. CNN reported this month on the ways that Donald Trump’s travel ban and suspension of refugee admi…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…ed that local administrators would find ways to deny assistance to African Americans. They were right on both counts.” In 1935, Roosevelt wrote letters to over 100,000 American clergy and asked for their thoughts about the New Deal, especially the just-enacted Social Security Act and the new Works Progress Administration. A staffer tallied the first 12,096 responses and found that eighty-four percent approved, albeit with some critiques (mostly co…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…er took him out to lunch and said, remembers Talen, “We need a new kind of American preacher.” Lanier convinced him that in order to speak relevantly to American politics and society, one has to understand its religion. They watched sermons together and studied “existential Christianity”‚ the historical Jesus, ancient Gnostics, and Continental philosophy. They learned the styles of televangelists like Billy Graham and Jimmy Swaggart. “Gradually I…

Blackwater’s Free-Market Crusade

By Nathan Schneider

…from the constraints of military and civilian oversight while implementing American government policy at home and abroad. Lucrative Pentagon and State Department contracts meant that, now a free-market businessman in his own right, Erik Prince had come full circle. Prince’s freedom, however, may not last. On August 4, Jeremy Scahill reported in The Nation that the night before, a pair of anonymous former Blackwater employees had filed sworn affida…

I Booed Romney For Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…NAACP “If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look.” We’re looking at you Mitt. What we see is a man who, despite his wealth, has not spent much time outside of his social, religious, or business circles to get to know the people he wants to serve. President Obama could be criticized for not attending the NAACP convention, but he sent his right-hand man who connect…

“Traditional values.” Tom DeLay. Jesus loves low, low prices! Just another day in Texas.

By Sarah Posner

…listic about the social responsibilities of any corporation. Wal-Mart is a business which the American people clearly value: shelves stocked with items they need (or want) at prices that alleviate financial pressure on the poor and underprivileged, while also benefiting millions of middle class shareholders who count on the firm’s financial success. The company pays employees well above the federal minimum wage, and employs more people than any ot…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…l enterprise. First, at the urging of several supporters from the world of business, he decided to incorporate his revival apparatus as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, thereby adopting a business model of organization and efficiency. After initial resistance, he also agreed to undertake a radio broadcast, the Hour of Decision, thereby tapping into the newly expanding universe of electronic media. Later, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Ass…