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New Ordinance to Protect Scientologists

By Jonathan L. Walton

…costs. But what happens when the voices of the majority impinge upon the religious freedoms and individual rights of a minority group? Do not Scientologists have the right to worship, work and live in peace? If they are breaking the law inside Golden Era Productions, protesters should file a complaint, allow police to obtain a warrant, and I will eagerly anticipate (and welcome) watching Tom Cruise taken away in handcuffs. Otherwise they may need…

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…ution makes a lot of sense. My earliest experiences that could be called “religious” were delivered to me by the hands of science. When I was in third or fourth grade my dad showed me a geologic timeline in a Time-Life book on natural history. My eyes followed its epochs, periods, eras, and eons down the page until they converged on the dark Hadean eon, marking Earth’s very assembly 4.5 billion years ago. I was stupefied. With its boxes and number…

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

By Aliyya Swaby

…h Jackson, have spearheaded this effort since 2005. In the meantime, they held religious classes for a small group of women in a room they borrowed from a local Muslim dentist. They started with ten people in 2011 and increased to thirty by the next year. “We started feeling the urgency to get a new space because we were bursting out the room,” Bell-Munajj said. I first visited the mosque in late October of 2013, when it was nearly ready to open….

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…een bond for large cities or riding a bicycle so that you can charge your cell phone or blend your free smoothie, the spirit has that vibe, that playful spirit of early hope. Our skateboarder is ready to ride. Here you can see mushrooms growing out of logs injected with coffee grounds. Beautiful, edible oyster mushrooms. You can buy a nice meal in a glass dish, which is recycled. You can get a free recyclable cup to drink water out of a fountain….

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

By Kara Loewentheil

There’s been a lot of talk about the religious rights of “closely-held corporations” since the Supreme Court’s opinion in Hobby Lobby back in June. So you might be surprised to learn, as I did, that “closely-held corporation” is not actually a thing. Who knew? It certainly sounds like a real thing, and the Supreme Court seemed to think it was a real thing. But in the course of drafting and submitting several sets of comments on behalf of my day j…

Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise

By Josiah Daniels

…a significant contingency of Americans made a putsch on the Capitol in a prelude to what feels like their push for the final solution to the “Negro problem.” No longer is the fantasy of Black retaliation an antecedent for white supremacist violence. This reality has so traumatized Black Americans that many are arming up. Dissimilar to the mob that rushed the Capitol, Black Americans have been legitimately traumatized by the state treading on their…

Tomorrow-Less Land

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…complex, and also more uncertain. The left knows that we’ve never had a purely free market, but rather a government that picks and chooses where it intervenes. Farms and agro-business, yes; automobiles, sometimes; steel, no way. Thus the political left needs to explain more clearly than it has done, how the current proposals are not legislative pandering to its dominant constituency—“Wall Street interests”—such that we instantly share their sense…

Trump and Hindu Nationalism: A Match Made in Bollywood

By Andrea R. Jain

…of private enterprise, they want the state to use public resources to actively promote a form of Hindu yoga. United by anxiety about immigration—and especially Muslims—as well as perceived threats to capitalist and patriarchal forms of domination, Trump and his allies among Hindus in the U.S. and India propagate militant forms of nationalism all while marketing themselves as protectors of social values. Trump and his allies espouse xenophobic, ant…

Trump’s SOTU Address Was a Christian Nationalist Dog Whistle

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ays been a frontier nation. It’s entirely possible that the speech wasn’t deliberately edited; that Trump, who’s famous for ad-libbing, simply misread or decided to deviate from the speech as written, but it’s meaningful that the speech appears to have been toned down. Even so, the message is out in the open: These judges will make Christian nationalism the law. They will redefine the Constitution so that it creates two classes of people: conserva…

Dubious Diversity at America Mag

By Patricia Miller

…ops’ efforts against gay marriage and reproductive health care under the “Religious Freedom” rubric. As with her role at the bishops’ conference, Alvaré’s biggest value to the right-wing Catholic roadshow is her very existence as a woman who gleefully opposes abortion and contraception. As my colleague Sarah Posner has reported, she’s one of the most outspoken proponents of the supposed dangers of the “contraceptive mentality”—Pope John Paul II’s…