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Most voters didn’t understand how extreme the amendment before them was.

How anti-gay North Carolina celebrates.

Perhaps the Vatican’s hard-line tactics are an intentional purge.

Announces support for Amendment 1.

A federal judge thinks that might solve an Establishment Clause problem.

Women who leave the faith have to cut off all ties, feminists say.

“Religious freedom” warrior Archbishop Lori and Boston’s Cardinal Law pushed for investigation.

“There’s no bigotry in it.,” they say. But the brutal rhetoric of amendment supporters belies any claim to compassion.

The reason we talk about Egypt’s Salafis isn’t because we’re debating theology, at least not primarily—I don’t think we’re actually concerned with the specifics of Islamic thought. We’re more worried about what Salafism and Islamism generally means for our interests, values, and the Muslim world. At bottom, our concerns over Salafis are concerns over what they’ll do when they’re in power.

Nothing, probably.