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Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hing,” said Anthony Kreis, an attorney and visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “At its worst, it’s a signal to churches.” It’s important to remember than an executive order doesn’t have the full force of law (or the power to overturn existing statutes), and even if it did, all this order really does is affirm existing precedent around employer-provided reproductive healthcare—and direct the IRS to continue to ignore the Jo…

Unified Catholic Opposition to Trump’s “Muslim Ban” is Wishful Thinking

By Patricia Miller

…en some sharp condemnations of the ban from Catholic bishops, most notably Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich, who slammed the ban as “a dark moment in U.S. history,” language that properly situates Trump’s action among other epic U.S. moral failures like the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the turning away of Jewish refugees during the same period. Cupich also didn’t shy away from the issue of religious discrimination, sayin…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…he President at his word that two people were shot at a political event in Chicago, or that a protestor at one of his own rallies was actually an agent of ISIS. When commentators on the right cautioned, during the campaign, that Trump’s statements should be taken seriously but not literally, they were laying the groundwork for the birth of alt-facts out of a language of hyperbole which was simultaneously a language of smokescreen and plain-spoken…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ties—especially in the public square—it deserves the scare quotes that the Chicago Manual of Style says are “used to alert readers that a term is used in a nonstandard (or slang), ironic, or other special use.” At the very least, the clearly coordinated and targeted effort to rebrand the freedom to discriminate as “religious freedom” meets the Oxford English Dictionary’s criteria for the use of scare quotes (emphasis mine): Quotation marks used ar…

The Most Ominous Promises Jeff Sessions Just Made to ADF Attorneys

By Sunnivie Brydum

…, explained Anthony Kreis, an attorney and visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, who specializes in unpacking “religious freedom” laws as they impact LGBT Americans. There’s nothing outright improper about Sessions signaling his fondness for the attorneys representing a client seeking to undermine the state of nationwide marriage equality and equal access for LGBT people, but it certainly doesn’t bode well for those LGBT peo…

When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society

By Michael Schulson

…rst page of Interfaith Leadership, Patel writes that “my own position as a Chicago-based, broadly progressive, Oxford-educated Ismaili Muslim who leads a nonprofit organization puts me in circles where I am far more likely to be in relationship with highly educated, city-dwelling, liberal Jews than with evangelical pastors leading house-churches in western Oklahoma.” But why should Patel and those highly educated, liberal Jews want to fight in the…

Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt

…re grad students in a social science master’s program at the University of Chicago when we started dating.) When we got around to actually designing the research project we were about to become first-time parents, and we wanted to know if there was anything we needed to be aware of to raise our kids! What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Families that combine Jewish and Asian heritages create homes marked by strong Jewish identi…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…anabara Bay, naked below the waist. Machado’s head had been bashed in. The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Hine also notes recent violence and political problems and writes that LGBT Brazilians are hopeful that the visibility of gay Olympians “can help create a more inclusive atmosphere” in the country. The rugby venue was nearly empty last week as Brazil’s women’s match was ending. That was when Olympic staffer Marjorie Enya decided to make her move. She…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…ned. Then I went to divinity school, and now I’m starting my own church in Chicago. A lot happened to get me to the point of wanting to start a church, and at this point I’m in pretty deep as far as Christianity is concerned. However, something I’ve found hard to admit is that the real, physical space of the Christian church—which has become important and life-changing for me—is nonetheless full of people, stories and symbols I can still have a ha…

Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”

By The Editors

…acial Obama era, violence against “certain blacks,” as the Art Ensemble of Chicago put it in their album by that name: those too Black, too queer, too femme, too tranny, etc., to “count” for the nation. Their out(sider)ness points to the nation’s limit while also (and this is their threat) prophesying alternate modes of life together. They prophesy the alternate, that an alter-politics is here as an open secret. Formal, electoral politics is the m…