by Much is being made over the latest survey to demonstrate that Americans know less than we think we do. This time, the subject is religion. The Pew Forum this week released the results of its U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, designed to test Americans’ knowledge of major faith traditions and the role of religion in public [...]
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by Human Rights Campaign has launched a new website called “NOM Exposed” dedicated to uncovering the “truth, lies, and connections about the so-called National Organization for Marriage.” I’m all in favor of providing the public with information about important political issues, but one look at this website makes clear that the primary motivation is not to provide information, but to paint opponents of same-sex marriage in the most sinister light possible, a sort of public shaming targeting anyone with the gall to stake out a position in support of traditional marriage.
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by In the Washington Post, Damon Linker (author of “Theocons”), proposes a “religious test” for all political candidates: Instead of attempting the impossible task of abolishing faith from the political conversation, we need a new kind of religious test for our leaders. Unlike the tests proscribed by the Constitution, this one would not threaten to formally [...]
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by Somewhere in America right now, there is a little girl locked in a dog cage. A man will bind her with duct tape. The man will sexually abuse her while another takes pictures and videos. The men will distribute these materials over a vast network of child pornography file sharing servers. Tens of thousands of [...]
Read the full postAn FYI for our readers: The Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law will present the second annual Religious Legal Theory Conference at its Queens, New York campus on November 5. This year’s theme, “Religion in Law, Law in Religion,” covers traditional religion/state questions as well as emerging issues in [...]
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by On the Mirror of Justice blog, and also on the religiousleftlaw blog, Steve Shiffrin has posted a couple of comments on my book “The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse.” Readers of this blog might be interested. Here are some links: http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/09/secular-discourse-religious-discourse-and-steven-smith.html and http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/09/the-di.html I posted the following response to Steve’s second post: I thank Steve for [...]
Read the full postThe first talk in our “Faith, Law and Culture Speaker Series” at Seton Hall Law School will be held today, September 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Faculty Library. The speaker series features theologians whose work focuses on the connections between faith, reason, law, reconciliation, and justice. Today’s speaker is Dr. Stephen Long of Marquette [...]
Read the full postBurning Qur’ans, as Terry Jones threatened to do last week, is wrong. It is disrespectful and needlessly provocative, an act that threatens the fabric of a pluralistic society. I take this to be axiomatic, as do most Americans. And yet, had Jones carried out his plan, his actions would have been protected by the First [...]
Read the full postThe same-sex marriage controversy in Iowa has spilled into the judicial retention system, where there is an active campaign to remove the supreme court justices who voted to strike down the state statute limiting marriage to a man and a woman.
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by Last week, the Obama Administration publicly argued that Florida pastor Terry Jones should not burn Korans because to do so would lead to the deaths of many American servicemen overseas. This morning on Good Morning America, Richard Cizik, head of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, argued that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf should [...]
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