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Trump’s SOTU Address Was a Christian Nationalist Dog Whistle

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ludes the following line (emphases mine): In reaffirming our heritage as a free nation, we must remember that America has always been a Christian nation. Time magazine’s transcript, meanwhile, reflects what the president actually said: In reaffirming our heritage as a free Nation, we must remember that America has always been a frontier nation. It’s entirely possible that the speech wasn’t deliberately edited; that Trump, who’s famous for ad-libbi…

Trump and Hindu Nationalism: A Match Made in Bollywood

By Andrea R. Jain

…savvy methods through which they have formed “relationships” with Hindu Americans, insisting, “All Hindu American values are consistent with the Republican values.” In his speech, Trump praised Indian Americans for having the highest rate of entrepreneurship and college education in the U.S. and then promised that a Trump administration would support such “impressive” citizens by lowering taxes for businesses and eliminating “job-killing” regulati…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…an innocence” that profoundly shapes American society in ways that many Americans do not. Fully two-thirds of LGBTQ Americans are nonreligious (compared to about one-third of the general population), for what seem like obvious reasons—and yet it’s not the LGBTQ Christians who leave the religion, but rather those who reclaim it as something inclusive, who get all the media attention. There’s a peculiar sting to the form of erasure that comes from b…

Tomorrow-Less Land

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ld Reagan first sold the rhetoric of Republican de-regulation and trust in free markets is just that: the death of tomorrow-thinking, under the pressure of the desire for instantaneous and sophomoric gratification. The boys at Enron acted as if there were no tomorrow, quite literally up to the day tomorrow came crashing over their heads. They contented themselves with figuring out how to get theirs and get out before the empty coffers and fictiona…

The Problem with the Notion of “Closely-Held Corporations” in Hobby Lobby

By Kara Loewentheil

…, not a religious rights issue, but it gets to one of the complications of free exercise rights. Some areas of law operate vertically, let’s say, since they’re mostly self-referential and one can acquire expertise in them without much reference to other areas of law. But religious rights work horizontally, as they come into interaction, and conflict, with many other categories of law. And it’s impossible to be expert in all types of law, even for…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…especially of the past century or so, is one of expanding human rights and freedoms. African leaders should be at the helm of this, and not hold back. Not at this critical moment. Chissano ended his letter quoting Nelson Mandela: “To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” Russia: Putin Tells Gays to ‘Leave Kids Alone’ But Arrests Rainbow Flag-Waving Teen As the Olympi…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ferences index divergent ideological stances with respect to a putative “African” sexual culture, as well as historical tensions within and between Christianity and Islam in Nigeria. The claim that homosexuality is “un-African” is widely understood as marking resistance to the neocolonial imposition of liberal Western values. Yet one of the leading proponents of this claim, Nigeria’s former Anglican Primate Peter Akinola, has explained that his vo…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…es. Lebanese Muslims work predominately as businesspeople in the lucrative Free Trade Zone, one of the largest free trade ports in the world. In the city center, many residents are descendants of West Indian laborers on the Panama Canal throughout the twentieth century. The city has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country. Every year, a group of black Muslims in Colón hosts an event to celebrate Eid-ul-Udha, a holiday that marks the end…

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…in framing the practice of legislating racism as a failure not only of American policy, but of Americanism as a Christian cult in particular, and also among good people of all faiths: A powerfully sacred international transcript. Clergy and religious laity issued statements condemning the hatred and discrimination pulsating throughout Arizona’s Christian and Jewish communities (no official word to the large percentage of Mormons was issued). How…

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…r effects on me: They made me feel empty, terrified, and utterly happy and free; and I wound up being a physicist and astronomer. And the irony is, it was science and the natural world—and not the church—that introduced me to mystery. Or, to be more direct, it was science and the natural world—and not the church—that introduced me to God. Mine is not an isolated case. Over time I have come to know many others with similar experiences. Many of thes…