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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…

U.S. Bishops (Who Lit Religious Liberty Fuse) Urge Civility

By Patricia Miller

…holics to pray and become politically active. A conservative think tank in Washington, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, hired a state policy director … and created a program to work the statehouses and advise elected officials interested in sponsoring religious rights acts…Conservative leaders held conferences, drawing into the coalition Mormon leaders and a small showing of Orthodox Jews, Muslims and Sikhs, along with legal advocacy groups, a…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of homophobia.” And in advance of Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. (an event organized by the Fellowship, an American evangelical group closely tied to anti-gay politicians in Uganda), Human Rights First urged faith leaders to speak out on human rights issues: “The United States has long been a beacon of hope for oppressed people who yearn to live in freedom, and has an historic commitment to refugees who have fled religio…

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…

Religious Freedom Manifesto Calls for Compromise and Civility—What’s So Wrong With That?

By Frederick Clarkson

…ertainly not lived up to expectations. At a Brookings Institution event in Washington, DC in the Fall of 2017, William Galston, a co-chair of the project, said: The American Charter Project will, before the end of the year, its backers and leaders fondly hope, release the American Charter of Religious Liberty. We hope to have a grand signing ceremony. We have outsized aspirations to get former presidents involved in the public exercise. So stay tu…

American Bishops Pushed Rome on Nun Crackdown

By Sarah Posner

…S Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). According to sources in Rome and Washington, his successor at the conference’s doctrinal office – the then Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Connecticut – was the man who formally petitioned the CDF to launch the current doctrinal investigation of the LCWR. Cardinal Bernard Law, who was forced to resign as Archbishop of Boston in 2002 because of his perceived mishandling of the clerical sex-abuse crisis,…

What the Latest ‘God’s Not Dead’ Gets Egregiously Wrong — and Right — About Homeschooling

By R.L. Stollar

…bill’s hearings learns the plight of the co-op and invites the parents to Washington D.C. to testify against the bill. In D.C., the parents justify homeschooling before a hostile government committee, eventually swaying public opinion against the bill. The movie ends with the judge, who originally ruled against the co-op, dramatically ripping up her order against them. What We The People gets wrong There’s so much We The People gets wrong about h…

Evangelicals Want Immigration Reform. Why Won’t Republicans Listen?

By Sarah Posner

…shared by Republicans broadly. As Republican pollster Whit Ayers told the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent at the time, a third of Republicans support a path to citizenship, but that number jumps to two thirds if the conditions leading to citizenship “are strict and rigorous.” When a comprehensive reform package was still being discussed in 2012 and 2013, evangelicals claimed there was a major obstacle to their support: the possible inclusion of th…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…have legalized same-sex marriage over the past 15 years, according to the Washington, D.C.-based LGBT rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign . But it would be a notable exception among Asian and Middle Eastern countries, at least 20 of which continue to ban same-sex intercourse. Still, reports AP, “as legalization grows closer, opposition to same-sex marriage is hardening among a small minority of fundamentalist churches and conservative pol…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…hen today we ought to be able to use the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, cell phones and our growing network of churches to educate the new Southern Electorate—black, white, Latino, Asian, gay, straight, labor, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostics, atheists, atudents and their elders, environmentalists—all who want a better life for all God’s people. The South matters because it is the native home of America’s original sin. Yes, we m…