With Islamophobia at historic levels, a Muslim social services provider finds that women who flee to shelters often confront new abuses from non-Muslim survivors and staff members.
Religion
Posted inLaw and Justice
Baking Chaos: Masterpiece Cakeshop Argument Misses the Mark
The oral arguments may sow confusion in other areas like the Trump travel ban.
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The Gay Wedding Cake Case Isn’t About Free Speech
The inconvenient facts of Masterpiece Cakeshop
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Blowing Up Democracy and Charities in One Fell Swoop
The House’s repeal of the Johnson Amendment poses an existential threat to both charities and American elections.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Roy Moore Proves the Moral Bankruptcy of the Religious Right
If there were any doubt that leaders such as Tony Perkins and Sandy Rios are more about the politics than Christian love, their respective silence on or defense of Moore lays that doubt to rest.
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The Proselytizers and the Privatizers
How religious sectarian school voucher extremists made useful idiots of the charter movement Â
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Francis Revives the Workers’ Church
The Catholic Church in America—once an ally of workers and their unions—grew deferential to big money in recent decades. Now, prompted by the Pope, a new generation of labor priests and bishops is trying to change that.
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Baker’s Toxic Recipe for Discrimination
A ruling for the bakery owner in the so-called “cake case” before the Supreme Court could inflict untold harm on gay people, true religious liberty, and civil rights.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Should Government Save Religion from Acts of God?
The religious right wants to open up the spigots of government funding after natural disasters. But their ultimate goal is to secure more public funds for churches—even if it means undoing the First Amendment.
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Will the Supreme Court Abandon True Government Neutrality Toward Religion?
The high court chips away at the once impregnable wall between church and state.
