Neo-Nazis Call on ‘White Christians’ to Oppose Satanic Temple Rally
The convergence of conservative Christian and White Supremacist groups suggests this is really a struggle over who is a “real” American and who is not.
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Satanic Temple Organizing a Rally for Religious Liberty
The trouble started in 2015 when Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert sponsored a bill to erect a Ten Commandments monument at the capitol.
Read MoreTrump Administration Is Not-So-Subtly Christianizing Foreign Policy and Aid
Under previous administrations, the U.S. government—particularly foreign aid and arms—did not directly intervene to promote the narrative of global Christian victimhood.
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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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The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation
Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color.
Read MoreWhy the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business
Self-definition and even strident public opposition are one thing. Parsing who’s a “real” Christian and who’s not is something else.
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.
Read MoreWill SCOTUS’s New Zeal for “Neutrality” Affect its Decision on the “Muslim Ban”?
The Town of Greece v. Galloway decision in 2014—also written by Justice Kennedy—upheld a town’s practice of holding legislative prayer during public meetings, even though these prayers were uniformly Christian. Where was neutrality on religion then?
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Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in Masterpiece
By now we’ve all learned that the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Masterpiece Cakeshop case in…
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