Religion Dispatches
Tearing a page from the “religious liberty” playbook, the ACLU contends that Trump’s travel ban violates core constitutional principles—and, crucially, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Like many liberals since the election, I have been swinging between absolute terror and despair and bits of hopefulness among the flames.
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Despite reports (from unnamed sources) suggesting otherwise, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are not the…
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He said you would be safe and all you had to do was look the other way when he advocated racist platforms. You took that bribe.
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“You saw those crowds at the inauguration? What a flock, right? You had a great view, I bet, the original Eye in the Sky. Back me up, it was over a billion people. Huge.”
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The heart of Trump’s speech was a defense of “religious liberty” that sounded a lot like protecting Christian—and specifically evangelical—lives and values.
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Americans United for Separation Church and State has some serious concerns about how a Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch might dismantle that constitutional wall.
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“The fight for real power is over what gets to count as a fact in the first place. Truth only matters insofar as you have the power to determine what is truth.”
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The Muslim ban masqueraded as a travel ban dramatizes the perpetual conflict between the essential America and the existential America.
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It’s understandable that with people grasping for a light in the darkness in the wake…
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