Why Republican Reaction to Marriage Equality Will Be More Like School Prayer Than Abortion
What will Republicans say about marriage equality should the Supreme Court, as many observers expect, hold…
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Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, covers politics and religion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon, and other publications.
The New Ground Zero on LGBT Rights and Religion
Houston. Atlanta. Big southern cities with liberal mayors facing a backlash from conservatives, claiming actions…
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Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli
Merav Michaeli, the Israeli journalist-turned-politician now serving in the Knesset as a member of the…
Read MoreWherein An Elected Official Gets His Holiday Miracles Mixed Up
Here’s a heartwarming holiday story from Springfield, Massachusetts, where city councilor Bud Williams said at a…
Read MoreChristians More Supportive of Torture than Non-Religious Americans
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that Americans, by a 59-31% margin, believe that CIA…
Read MoreInternational Religious Freedom Battles Heat Up
On Friday, the Senate voted to confirm Rabbi David Saperstein to the post of Ambassador-at-Large…
Read MoreRepublicans To Get Free “Spiritual, Historical” Trips to Israel
Remember a few weeks ago I wrote that Israel will be a 2016 litmus test…
Read MoreIn Wake of Eric Garner Case, Southern Baptist Leader Rips Racism in the Church
After the failure yesterday of a grand jury to indict the New York police officer who…
Read MoreThe Divorce Rate Is Falling. Shouldn’t That Mean the Sky Isn’t?
Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times Upshot blog dismantles the myth of the…
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What Netanyahu Learned from Texas
Last week, the Texas Board of Education approved the use of controversial public school history…
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