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Celebrating Religious Freedom Day By Taking Back the Revolutionary Meaning of ‘Religious Freedom’

By Frederick Clarkson

…ional Religious Freedom Day was adopted with strong, bipartisan support in Washington, I am optimistic that we can do it in Minnesota as well. Every state is so different. We all need to better understand the history of our own state in order to keep a watchful eye on the present and plan to ensure our rights for future generations as best we can. All sides sometimes conflate religion or “faith” with religious freedom. But religious freedom accord…

Gay Republicans Ask for Social Issue Cease-Fire

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ment conservatives everywhere, we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the tea party movement,” the letter read. “This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue, nor should it be interpreted as a political blank check… Already, there are Washington insiders and special interest groups th…

Keepers of History or Dangerous Idols: The Case Against Statues From an Unlikely Source

By David Zvi Kalman

…sville press conference in 2017. “Are we gonna take down statues of George Washington?” We’re supposed to say no, I think, for no matter where we place the invisible line between “villain” and “important-but-problematic-historical-figure,” there’s widespread agreement that an America with no monuments—without a Rushmore, or a Lincoln Memorial, or an MLK, or 101 Washingtons in marble and bronze—would be an America that had lost itself in the heat o…

Are Tea Partiers Pro-Gay and Pro-Choice?

By Sarah Posner

…g partners of the Eleison Group, the political strategy consulting firm in Washington devoted to helping Democrats speak to “religious” voters, is out with some really questionable advice for the Democrats over at the Huffington Post. Sapp sent the piece to me, an ill-conceived proposal for Democrats to win over conservative voters who might be initially wooed by the tea partiers. “This is more of a divide and conquer strategy,” he wrote to me, “b…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…McDonnell tried to distance himself from his own work, but Titus told the Washington Post that McDonnell’s thesis was “right.” In 2004, after Judge Roy Moore, another Titus client, was stripped of his position for defying a federal court order to remove his 2.6-ton monument to the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court, he joined Titus in drafting the Constitution Restoration Act. The bill, had it passed, would have depriv…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…ation is removing the word “Islam” from all descriptions of terrorism. The Washington Institute of Near East Policy disagrees with the decision and claims that “radical Islamic extremists” can be identified as such “without denigrating Islamic religion in any way.” Meanwhile, the Washington Post’s On Faith blog has a forum of posts on both sides of the question, “What to call terrorists?” Church rating sites are making it easier for the pious to f…

The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…s Freedom. The Tennessee legislature as well as the Michigan House and the Washington House resolutions did manage to state that the Virginia Statute was a forerunner to the First Amendment and, in the case of Michigan, that the bill disestablished the Church of England, though they laded their resolutions with language about God and religion and how various Founding Fathers thought religion is important. That was not, however, the purpose or sign…

Richard Land, Under Investigation for Plagiarism, Wages Religious Freedom War With Bishops

By Sarah Posner

…many people in the pews are listening to the 350 “leaders” who gathered in Washington yesterday? As Weaver and the historian and journalist Brian Kaylor noted about Land when the plagiarism charges broke, Land’s status is propped up by journalists, but not necessarily respected at the grassroots. “He’s the go-to expert and supposedly has his finger on the pulse on Southern Baptists, but if you’re around Southern Baptists, you know that’s not true,…

VA Supreme Court Gives Episcopal Church Victory Over Breakaways

By Peter Montgomery

…al Church could not take with them the historic Falls Church, where George Washington was once vestryman. The Washington Post’s Michelle Boorstein has the details about this ruling and its larger context: Similar disputes have roiled Episcopal churches around the country and other parts of mainline Christianity, not only on questions of gay equality but also more secular issues related to property rights. The Virginia dispute also became an issue…

The Tea Party Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…Barton. DeMint, of course, is one of those Republicans who is very much a Washington insider but disingenuously claims (for Tea Party-cred) to be a renegade fighting it from the outside. But DeMint is a religious right hero first. DeMint thinks that gay people and single mothers shouldn’t teach in public schools; then again, he also believes that “a nation that raises its children in government schools cannot expect its people to stand for the pr…