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Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…over the years gradually expanding gay rights. The Court acted in part because Congress refused to pass marriage equality legislation after an earlier ruling. A pro-equality senator, Armando Benedetti, told the New York Times, “Today is a bittersweet day. I’m happy because LGBT people have equal rights, but I’m sad because although Congress looks like a cathedral outside, it is a manger inside.” The Times’ Paula Duran noted that a Gallup poll earl…

American Brokenness: A Lament

By Daniel Schultz

…society have failed not because they are inherently undeliverable, but because liberals have betrayed them. An entire generation has come to believe this. Now that generation is faced with a nation that not only tolerates progressive ideas, but embraces them. I say that not to shove it in conservatives’ faces, but to recognize the depth of their loss. They can no longer remain unfeeling about American brokenness. From their perspective, the very p…

8 Bill Maher Statements For UC Berkeley To Consider Before Commencement

By Nathan Lean

…ident. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt so you can see the gun in his pants. That’s — ‘We’ve got a motherfu**ing problem here?’ Shoot somebody in the foot.” Maher has expressed alarm that Muhammad is the most popular baby name in the United Kingdom because he doesn’t want “the Western world to be taken over by Islam.” UC Berkeley’s insistence that Maher will be its mid-year commencement keynote speake…

“Traditional values.” Tom DeLay. Jesus loves low, low prices! Just another day in Texas.

By Sarah Posner

…tive sexual practices.” Christian also introduced a provision, which the House voted to table, that would have required state universities to use 10 percent of their appropriations on “Western Civilization” courses. The TCC was behind a bill that stalled last term that would have created a “School of Ethics, Western Civilization, and American Traditions” at the University of Texas at Austin. One of nine task forces maintained by the TCCRI is one o…

Are Religious Leaders Prepared to Engage “Religious Liberty” Questions Post-Hobby Lobby?

By Carolyn Davis

…ams, and social media outreach efforts that critically engage the tensions between freedom and liberty in religious practice and American citizenship; take a stand in the pulpit for the legal and moral place of competing religious convictions; explicitly honor the lives of women and children by calling for the provision of adequate healthcare and family planning services unhindered by an employer’s religious convictions; affirm the right of indivi…

Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…ommunism, witchcraft was officially banned. However, in the 1960s Elena Ceausescu (the wife of dictator Nicolae Ceausesecu) is said to have retained a witch known as Mama Omida or “Mother Caterpillar.” Mama Omida died in 1967 but is remembered as one of the most famous and powerful witches of Romania. Her daughter, Rodica Gheorge, is now among the most popular and wealthy witches in the country. She also has a blog featuring testimonials for her c…

Great Moments In Bipartisanship: Bible Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…sus’ Purse, a 501(c)(3) the Savior has established. [ John 3]: Jesus and Nicodemus meet for free, frank, and open discussion on a number of agenda items. John Bolton criticizes Jesus for rewarding Nicodemus for bad behavior. [ John 18:28-19:16]: Congressional leaders talk down investigations into the wrongful death of Jesus of Nazareth, not wanting to “criminalize politics” or “live in the past.” [Romans]: Paul calls on Jews, Gentiles to find comm…

Arizona is the Hispanic Alabama

By Anthea Butler

…he 1960s: “For Hispanics, Arizona is Alabama and Maricopa County is Selma.” And much like the civil rights movement, Arizona’s draconian immigration law promises to divide religious groups into factions that won’t easily be repaired. The violence portrayed in MIA’s “Born Free” and Public Enemy’s “By the Time I get to Arizona” isn’t likely to break out anytime soon, but the tensions they depict are present in the fight for the recognition of undocu…

The Roberts Court’s “Special Solicitude” for Corporations

By Sarah Posner

…ing unemployment benefits after they were fired due to their ritual peyote use did not violate their free exercise rights. RFRA, Ginsburg argued, reinstated the law to pre-Smith jurisprudence without creating any “new rights for any religious practice or for any potential litigant.” “Despite these authoritative indications, the Court sees RFRA as a bold initiative departing from, rather than restoring, pre-Smith jurisprudence,” she wrote. RFRA did…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…rt protectionist measures, and they oppose free trade in capital goods because they oppose free trade (or open borders) for labor. Whether or not they gain traction by claiming that the stock market and banks are controlled by Jews depends on whether people of goodwill are able to offer a more compelling vision of change. With Obama in the White House, I think we can expect more of the same, plus some. Some White nationalists will focus on tending…