The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause
How did we get to the point where the infringement of a religious obligation is constitutionally irrelevant despite the existence in the text of a constitutional protection of religion?
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Sarah Palin and the Politics of Victimization
The world of Sarah Palin can be divided neatly into good and bad. The latter category includes Hollywood, John Kerry, Michael Moore, “left-wing professors and journalists,” Nancy Pelosi, the Ninth Circuit Court, liberals, MSNBC, the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Times, Barack Obama, health care, and “all the lawyers and academics and schooled-up ‘experts’ in D.C.”
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Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish
A week before an election that saw Oklahoma pass Measure 755, forbidding the use of international and Shari’ah law in state courts, Literary theorist and New York Times contributor Stanley Fish penned a piece for the Times.
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Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe
At the Fathers’ House International church in Henderson, Kentucky, Pastor Lisa Bourland is seated on the floor of the altar in the prayer room washing the feet of speakers for that evening’s Women, Weapons of Warfare (WWW) conference. Behind her is a blank movie screen—the…
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Evangelical Pastor Tests First Amendment Waters
The notorious Alliance Defense Fund, which seeks to abrogate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, has recruited an evangelical minister to endorse a candidate for governor from the pulpit in hopes of taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Such advocacy, of course, violates the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization from making political endorsements.
Read MoreReligion or Ethics at the Supreme Court?
The exquisite tap dance around talking about what Supreme Court nominees really believe continues.
Read MoreReligious Right Prays To Lift Curse Of Obama, Glenn Beck’s Commencement Speech, And A Cross In The Desert: The Week In Religion, Poetically
The week’s religion news.
Read MoreDoes The Supreme Court’s Religious Composition Matter?
If Stevens retires and is replaced by a non-Protestant, it will be the first time in history that the court will have no Protestants on the bench. Can we discuss this in “polite company?”
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Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations
The Supreme Court struck down a century of regulations limiting corporate money in politics, clearing the way for a new Gilded Age. In the original Gilded Age (which inspired the Social Gospel movement), opposition was galvanized by a strong anti-corporate Christianity. Where’s the religious opposition now?
Read MoreColbert “The Word” on SCOTUS Establishment Case
Does the cross work as a universal symbol for our war dead including Jews, Muslims, and atheists? It works for “Ply-druids.”
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