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United Nations Affirms the Human Right to Blaspheme

By Austin Dacey

…(criminalized even under the First Amendment) to the effectively unverifiable standard of being motivated by religious hostility, as under the UK’s Crime and Disorder Act of 1998. Convictions against writer and activists such as Paul Giniewski in France, Lars Hedegaard in Denmark, and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria demonstrate that hate speech laws are ripe for abuse even in liberal democracies. Civil society activists now have the final l…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…wasn’t a regular guest on the premier talking-head TV programs; he never held elected office; there was no hint of a Ted Haggard/Newt Gingrich-like “values” scandal in his life. But Weyrich, who died after a long illness on Thursday, December 18 at the age of 66, and who wasn’t reticent about sharing his ideas and opinions, was, in fact, the connective tissue of the modern conservative movement. In his book, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the…

False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix

By Marcia Pally

…either lassitude or rage set in, along with the search for saviors who’ll deliver relief from material hardship—but who also make people feel the world is an understandable place over which they have some control and in which they have a purpose. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy said, “even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction—purpose and dignity.” The search for grand, sweeping re…

Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…rying over slaughtered sons, daughters (and vice versa). It’s Black folks celebrating freedom… or at least being “free-ish.” That, I believe, is at the root of the Juneteenth conundrum; the difficulty of seeing and accepting Black Joy, not Black Excellence, not Black Girl Magic, or any other formulation of Blackness that requires Black folks to exhibit superhuman levels of suffering or perseverance in the face of oppression. Simply the human emoti…

RDEpistle: Open Letter to Sean Hannity

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…olitics of personal destruction. Sean, your words have the power to heal and the power to destroy. The choice is yours. Sincerely, Candace Chellew-Hodge…

History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

By Peter J. Paris

…nion troops from the South. Needless to say, perhaps, all black Americans felt betrayed by the federal government at that time and for a long while thereafter. As a consequence, it was not until 1973 when Congresspersons Andrew Young from Georgia and Barbara Jordan from Texas became the first blacks elected from the South since Reconstruction—96 years after the fall of Reconstruction and less than a decade after President Lyndon Johnson called a p…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…You have to go for yourself.” I never forgot this. As a Muslim, the interrelationship between us, as creatures who believe in and intentionally orient ourselves towards God/Allah/the Lord, is one which was defined in the very nature of our creation. Before we were created, Allah said, to the angels, “Indeed, I will create on the earth a khalifah, an agent, (or a trustee of God/Allah/the Lord). This agency, we sometime refer to with regard to our…

Why I Joined Over a Thousand Faith Leaders in Masterpiece Case Brief

By Marie Alford-Harkey

…ge under the Constitution, and they must be allowed to exercise that right freely, including buying goods and services from businesses open to the public. The brief filed by Masterpiece Cakeshop’s attorneys goes so far as to say, “The cake, which serves as the iconic centerpiece of the marriage celebration, announces through Phillips’s voice that a marriage has occurred and should be celebrated.” While a wedding cake may, for some, be the centerpi…

Interview with Karen Armstrong

By Andrea Bistrich

…s to attack a country where Muslims were permitted to practice their faith freely; the killing of civilians was prohibited, as were the destruction of property and the use of fire in warfare. The sense of polarization has been sharpened by recent controversies: the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the Pope’s remarks about Islam, and whether face-veils hinder integration, as a few examples that have set relations between Islam and the West…

On the “Shunning” of Marriage Equality Opponent Ryan T. Anderson: A Reply to Damon Linker

By Eric C. Miller

…state he chooses to reside, he has the ready assurance of marriage and family—something he has become famous working to deny to a whole segment of the population. So let me be the first to agree with Linker on the subject of liberal discourse. But let me also add a caveat. Free and open public speech means being held accountable for the things you say. Ryan T. Anderson is an advocate of uncivil policy, and has enjoyed the perks of that advocacy….