Hate the Sinner, Love the Gun
In the wake of the June 28th Supreme Court ruling, thoughts on the gun’s sacred role in US culture and our God-given right to be violent…
Read Morescotus
Young Imam Reality Show, Debating Secularism, and More
The week in religion, poetically…
Read More
What Does God Tweet?, AFA Cites Hitler on Gays…
The week in religion, poetically.
Read More
Elena Kagan and her Socialist Thesis
No matter what we academics think of the cultural movement in this country that entertainers like Glenn Beck have so easily tapped into, we prove their point when we offer our last seat on an all Ivy-League court to the former dean of Harvard Law School.
Read MoreKung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically
A roundup of the latest from the world of religion.
Read MoreEvangelical About-Face on SCOTUS Nominee Sexuality
Focus on the Family retracts its potential support for a nominee with ‘gay tendencies.’
Read More
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 More
The Great Secret of Constitutional Law: Why Proposition 8 Will (and perhaps should) Be Upheld
“The Constitution is not what the Court says it is. Rather it is what the people…eventually allow the Court to say it is.” A careful read of the history of great advances in American freedom reveals that high court decisions like Brown v. Board of Ed. actually relied both on the clarity of the argument and the perception that the nation was ready.
Read More
The Free Speech Case That Dared Not Speak the Name of the Establishment Clause
Why was a Utah city allowed to prevent a minority religion from erecting a monument next to a monument of the Ten Commandments? The Supreme Court’s Summum decision, litigated in the shadow of the Establishment Clause, raises more questions than answers.
Read More
10 Commandments SCOTUS Ruling Right, Highlights Wrongs
Law Professor Jay Wexler comments on the “clear as oatmeal” SCOTUS decisions on monument issues.
Read More