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‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…tearns found that a government alteration of policy to bend to the deeply held religious beliefs of a particular religious denomination is exactly what the Establishment Clause prohibits. The Stand Up for Religious Freedom rallies emphasized the Free Exercise Clause and their own “religious freedom,” but they ignore, most certainly not by accident, the principle upon which Judge Stearns’ decision rests: “[t]o insist that the government respect the…

Your Prayer is Spoken! For Just $3.95 Per Month

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a German Dominican preacher who caught the ire of Martin Luther by his shameless selling of indulgences. His famous sales pitch went something like this, “As soon as the coin into the box rings, a soul from purgatory to heaven springs.” The elector of Saxony and Luther defender, Frederick the Wise, had banned Tetzel from Wittenberg. But, to Luther’s shock, his parishioners would travel to see Tetzel and return to inform Luther they would no longer…

In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, welcomed Pope John Paul II to a gathering of nuns held in the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington DC. Her gentle and generous welcome caused a stir because she dared to mention, albeit with deep respect, that the other half of the church (read: women) wants to be involved in all of its ministries. Her implicit reference to the ban on the ordination of wo…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…tural institutions such as academia, Hollywood, and the media, and worked deliberately, over several decades, to corrode the traditional foundations of Western civilization by mainstreaming multiculturalism, relativism, feminism, LGBTQ pride, social justice and, worst of all, “political correctness.” The old Bolshevik menace, Lind warned, had not fallen with the Berlin Wall—rather, it metastasized into the more diffuse realm of culture, making it…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…ese performers sang Olympic pop promos and protesters waved signs reading “Free Tibet” and “Free Speech Now.” One man shouted, “Protect the First Amendment! This isn’t Communist China!” Police and park rangers tried convincing the protesters to leave the plaza and join the pro-Tibet contingent out in the street, but the protesters would not budge. Along the waterfront, the local chapter of Students for a Free Tibet drew huge crowds with their Chin…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…ht of individual conscience; to believe as we will and to change our minds freely, without undue influence from government or from powerful religious institutions. It also means the right to practice our beliefs free from the same constraints. The right to believe differently from the rich and the powerful is a prerequisite for free speech and a free press, the other two elements of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.” How does your report…

Booing Gay Soldiers and Expressing Faith in the Public Square

By Sarah Posner

…conservative view, because there is no separation of church and state and religious freedom demands that Christians be able to pray where and when they want. Bachmann didn’t answer the first part of that question—whether state-sponsored religion is okay—and focused on the religious freedom part. Which brings us back to Santorum. At the core of the legalistic arguments conservatives make against LGBT equality is that civil rights for LGBT people in…

The Penis+Vagina Monologues

By Sarah Posner

…was actually the inaccurate descriptor. After all, Arizona already has a Religious Freedom Restoration Act; SB 1062’s supporters even described it as a way of closing that statute’s alleged “loopholes.” What’s more, since Arizona, unlike its neighbor New Mexico, doesn’t recognize sexual orientation as a protected class in its anti-discrimination laws, all the photographers and bakers and everyone else in Arizona were already perfectly free to tur…

Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…The ones in Ali’s visions. Teshuvah, at its root, means “turning.” To turn freely we need space. We need to be able to breathe. When I reflect on our current crises of police violence, racism, transphobia, Islamophobic attacks, and sexism—to name just a few items—I feel as if we are stuck in the narrow straits, in mitzrayim—a space that does not allow for much turning, “spiritual” or otherwise. It chokes me up and makes it hard to speak. So I’m wr…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ple of faith who are the majority,” Latortue said, stressing the commonly held belief in Haiti that homosexuality is a Western practice only. “A country has to focus on its values and traditions. Some people in other countries see it differently, but in Haiti, that’s how it’s seen.” Haitian law already defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, making it unclear what consequences the bill, if passed, would have in practice. Australia:…