How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream
This is not a majority Catholic court. It’s the Supreme Court that the strange alliance of the religious right built.
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Trump Pardons the Hammonds, Arsonists Who Inspired Bundy Standoff
Both this administration and this Supreme Court have proved all too willing, in recent months, to prioritize the individual entitlements and business interests of white Christian men.
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Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church
“The thing most of us have been talking about is to encourage the use of medical technology, the morning-after pills and very good new drugs. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches.”
Read MoreKavanaugh’s ‘Jesuitical’ Response to ‘Abomination’ of ‘Roe v. Wade’ in 2006
Jesuitical: crafty; sly; intriguing.
Read MoreKavanaugh, Yawn: Where’s Our Thirty-Year Plan?
When will we unite the fragments of important and useful single-issue activism under a shared understanding that we need to slay the dragon of finance capitalism joined to white supremacy?
Read MorePresbyterians to Propose Historic Resolution for Religious Freedom and Against LGBTQ Discrimination
We believe it weakens religious freedom when it is invoked in ways that deprive people of their civil and human rights to equal protection under the law, or seek to justify exclusion and discrimination.
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Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’
The Court may not have explicitly rejected Phillips’s free speech claims, but the fact that seven of nine justices chose not to follow Phillips and his attorneys in their primary reasoning, even while ruling in their favor, is noteworthy.
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‘Project Blitz’ Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business
Religious freedom has been much in the news as the Trump administration has rolled out…
Read More“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business
Launched initially in 2015, Project Blitz brings something new and dramatic to the Christian Right as it continues to mature as a political movement—especially in light of its electoral advances in state governments over the past decade.
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Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians
Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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