https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to personhood en https://religiondispatches.org/2025/01/21/leaving-office-biden-announced-era-should-already-be-28th-amendment-if-it-could-it-be Although it has since been removed from the White House website, on Friday afternoon, with seconds remaining on his presidential clock, Joseph Robinette Biden announced (noticed?) that the Equal Rights Amendment met the requirements to be added to the constitution… Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:20:01 EST Megan Goodwin 207db602-6043-46cc-b6fd-516587b74b1a https://religiondispatches.org/2024/08/07/right-questions-kamala-harris-blackness-yet-long-she-holds-any-power-shell-always-be-too Hey, do you all remember jamming to the song “Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight”? No? Well, sorry if you missed out on… Wed, 07 Aug 2024 02:00:41 EDT Mary Rambaran-Olm 44fc3ed4-5f98-44e2-8899-189d8a005c51 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/12/women-are-still-fleeing-church-and-cause-still-pretty-clear Eight years ago here at RD I noted that women were fleeing organized religion —as measured by attendance at religious services—faster than men, a trend that showed no sign of letting up. Historically, women have been a good deal more… Fri, 12 Jul 2024 02:30:30 EDT Patricia Miller 2b13db25-3d8a-4c68-8b59-314617af8e11 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/23/first-it-was-insurrection-flag-now-supreme-court-justice-alito-caught-flying-another-far Some things regarding the Supreme Court are not surprising. For example: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito who, along with Clarence Thomas forms the extreme Right flank of this Court (which is saying something), doesn’t like women very much. Or abortion… Thu, 23 May 2024 08:58:44 EDT Annika Brockschmidt dea7d5c3-022f-4f73-9b22-4e6e12cc4482 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/05/alabamas-ivf-ruling-reveals-deep-ties-increasingly-influential-christian-right-movement In the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling that sent shockwaves through the country, the word “God” appears 41 times—and that’s no coincidence. Embryos, according to Alabama’s highest court, are in fact “extrauterine children”—a phrase so dystopian it would make Margaret… Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:29:17 EST Annika Brockschmidt e4a60f3b-6173-4b0b-ab29-7719222b2f20 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/22/tale-two-fascisms-douchey-jd-vance-vs-creepy-blake-masters Peter Thiel’s bid to win two seats in Congress didn’t quite succeed. One of his protégées, J.D. Vance , won his race in Ohio after trailing his Democratic opponent for weeks, while the other, Blake Masters, lost his Arizona senate… Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:49:37 EST Annika Brockschmidt 50a1e04f-ea7d-4554-b6fc-f013535442dd https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/24/citing-jewish-law-florida-synagogue-challenges-abortion-ban-heres-problem-religious Days before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey , a Florida synagogue filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s abortion ban on the grounds that it violates Jews’ religious freedom. Halakhah, or Jewish law, the… Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:34:36 EDT Rebecca Epstein-Levi 411e5ad3-73b6-47f9-a11d-e464586d55ac https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/19/we-believe-god-has-special-plan-every-single-life-oklahomas-strict-punitive-and-total Anyone who grew up in the Christian Right could have told you that Roe v. Wade was never “settled law,” despite what the pundits said. We conservative evangelicals were always sincerely gunning for Roe . I was born on July… Thu, 19 May 2022 05:23:18 EDT Chrissy Stroop 9d779d15-4cd9-42e8-80b4-b9f7973d725e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/11/dont-buy-alitos-assurances-heres-what-happens-next-after-roe-falls The leaked first draft of Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has sent shockwaves throughout the American psyche. This is a stunning reversal of women’s rights that have been in place for half a century . It… Wed, 11 May 2022 03:34:55 EDT Brynn Tannehill 8f88195d-cde9-4218-bc3a-552870401275 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/10/end-roe-comes-courtesy-catholic-church-dorothy-day-abortion-fund-st-vincent-de-paul No matter how Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is decided finally, restrictions unto bans on abortions will be courtesy of the institutional Roman Catholic Church. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, their Pro-Life Activities Committee, and colleagues will… Tue, 10 May 2022 03:41:31 EDT Mary Hunt 1c7ff8e2-da71-42af-a292-a2f7ca74b98a https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/06/originalism-neednt-always-result-abortion-bans-just-ask-al-qaida When it comes to Roe v. Wade , some pro-choice voices have a jihadism problem. Posting about “Shariʿa” won’t help them. Critiquing originalism might. A subset of those infuriated by the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would… Fri, 06 May 2022 04:27:14 EDT Nathan French 2bc57955-1063-4303-aec2-3dd9e58ffe8c https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/05/end-roe-and-assault-trans-people-fail-see-bigger-picture-and-well-never-be-free In March, the State of Texas sent investigators to Amber and Adam Briggle’s home , saying they abused their trans son because they provided him gender-affirming care. In April, Texas police arrested Lizelle Herrera and charged her with murder for… Thu, 05 May 2022 10:45:03 EDT Jacqui Lewis 94226c9b-c107-47a8-8ed9-3fc8766b1c86 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/05/07/christian-rights-main-moral-argument-against-abortion-rights-completely-ignores-critical With an increasing number of states almost entirely banning abortion if the Supreme Court ends the Roe era, supporters of reproductive freedom and justice need to innovate politically and bring on board more religious people, who are often positively inclined… Fri, 07 May 2021 09:57:35 EDT Elizabeth Freese a2fbdd0a-9cc6-4aa7-918a-d4855b12b9ea https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/17/rep-kinzinger-rejects-judgmental-family-letter-hes-no-cure-evangelical-gop This week, Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of only ten Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted for Donald Trump’s second impeachment, released to The New York Times a letter signed by 11 members of his family eviscerating him… Wed, 17 Feb 2021 04:23:18 EST Chrissy Stroop 2d0ff3ee-9686-4281-bc2d-949ca4eb28fe https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/25/how-anti-abortion-movement-gave-us-donald-trump-and-why-it-could-bring-worse I grew up in the white evangelical community, surrounded by individuals who became Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. Although numerous factors motivated support in this community, one bears more responsibility, from my vantage point, than any other: the anti-abortion movement… Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:13:15 EST Jonathan Dudley b93554d7-ca4b-4ede-8c3c-0bd6390caedb https://religiondispatches.org/2020/07/08/corporation-citizen-next-anti-black-anti-democratic-model-needs-be-torn-down When Claudia Rankine was asked by The Guardian why she decided to give the title Citizen to her powerful 2015 prose poem exploring racism in all of its incarnations , she answered this way: I called it Citizen because I… Wed, 08 Jul 2020 02:07:50 EDT Peter Laarman 167561b7-3280-4e09-bc34-795ec9ce0325 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/09/27/when-biblical-view-evangelicals-was-life-begins-birth Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was recently castigated by evangelicals and other conservative Christians for saying that, according to his read of the Bible, life begins at first breath. But there was a time, not long ago, when that same belief was at the center of evangelical thought. How quickly the Bible can change. Fri, 27 Sep 2019 01:16:51 EDT Jonathan Dudley b9741591-89ac-42a5-824d-9a1aa0418c25 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/05/28/opposing-anti-choice-legislation-isnt-violation-religious-freedom-its-expression-it While some have argued that opposition to a woman’s right to make decisions about her body is a legitimate religious freedom issue, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the religious freedom issue at stake in the abortion debate. Tue, 28 May 2019 05:10:20 EDT Rebecca Todd Peters 50e384ef-f1e6-4a3d-93bc-20e3d1dd4242 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/09/14/mormon-humorist-robert-kirby-butt-his-own-dirty-joke The problem, he writes, is that he “misjudged how she would take [his] sense of humor.” Really? Does he normally get a good response to asking women he’s just met to pretend they’re prostitutes? Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:55:17 EDT Holly Welker 184048a5-7c7b-4947-9bf8-04364b405aa0 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/01/08/anti-gay-anti-catholic-evangelical-sworn-mayor-rio-more-global-lgbt-recap Durga Sengupta at CatchNews.com reported on progress and backlash on LGBT issues in India and around the world in 2016. The Family Research Council praised the Trump transition team for demanding information from the State Department on programs and staff… Sun, 08 Jan 2017 11:08:20 EST Peter Montgomery 9d33c449-d750-47d6-9510-43dc31ec29a3 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/01/faith-market-our-national-religion-says-theologian-harvey-cox We all have a lot of praying to do. Thu, 01 Sep 2016 06:20:54 EDT Alan Levinovitz 05ea3e20-35fe-4382-9d1b-4294524c9745 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/18/shared-fantasy-redemptive-violence-between-isis-and-islamophobic-right What led Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel to rent a refrigerated truck, arm himself with a few pistols and fake assault rifles, and begin his terrible rampage last week on the beachside promenade of Nice? For some people, of course, Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s… Mon, 18 Jul 2016 07:52:27 EDT Donovan Schaefer dd70ea8a-c7f3-4939-8341-81fd1d4f57c4 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/20/engravings-ultrasounds-politics-imaging-womb The state of Texas, which was subject to a landmark Supreme Court ruling today, is one of a handful of states requiring not only that abortion providers perform an ultrasound, but that they both display and describe the image to… Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:34:53 EDT Elizabeth Yale 45f8fe39-0fe0-4596-a3f6-21df5e36accd https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/01/story-which-gay-mormon-does-not-die When 15-year-old Alex Cooper came out to her devout Mormon family, they drove her from the family home in a Southern California suburb to an unlicensed in-home treatment program whose proprietors, fellow Mormons, promised they could help Alex change from… Tue, 01 Mar 2016 12:32:58 EST Joanna Brooks b39362d8-3f02-4273-a2dc-71bbb1c79168 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/08/kim-davis-county-clerk-not-person Why we need to head back to civics class for this one… Tue, 08 Sep 2015 01:38:00 EDT Ivan Strenski 86944d35-def4-4bb8-9877-71d7e339b86a