...a mighty link round-up! (I'm posting this now, unfinished, because I'm worried that my computer will crash--will keep adding to it. EDIT: Computer did crash, but I've now fixed this post, so there will be no new additions.) First, here's their op-ed again, "A Reconciliation on Gay Marriage." Ryan...

in the New York Times: IN politics, as in marriage, moments come along when sensitive compromise can avert a major conflict down the road. The two of us believe that the issue of same-sex marriage has reached such a point now. We take very different positions on gay marriage. We have had heated deba...

In response to the question, “What is the future of the faith-based initiative?” Jordan Ballor kindly asked me to offer a few words in response to this question, as I made it an area of expertise during the previous Administration. I’ve been working up to writing something more for...

I believe in freedom of speech for Bishop Williamson Pope Benedict XVIVatican City benedictxvi@vatican.va Your Holiness Is it not true that under the Second Vatican Council's doctrine of Religious Liberty, that Bishop Richard N. Williamson has the right to express his conscience and opinion on the s...

I used to consider myself a fundamentalist. After all, what's wrong with wanting to practise the fundamentals of your belief? Nothing. But wanting to practise only the fundamentals of your belief and wanting others to follow suit - ah, that's where evil fills in the gap between ideals and temporal r...

Stuff has been accumulating since Thanksgiving. Time to dump it on you. The myth that Blacks were responsible for the passage of Prop. 8 has been debunked. But the need to engage that community remains as strong as ever. My friend Lauren sent me an interesting article trying to break down why Blacks...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news. I'm going to New York this afternoon and won't be back until late tomorrow, so the roundup will be off until Monday What is the world coming to when hippies attack the homeless? An Arizona sheriff is being accused of racial profiling in his aggressiv...

The 7th Circuit, in a 2-1 opinion written by (Chicago law prof!) Frank Easterbrook, has held that an apartment which -- in the course of prohibiting all outside objects on doorways -- bars observant Jews from posting Mezuzot on the door frames does not violate the Fair Housing Act. Judge Diane Wood ...

The religion of peace hits a new low.  Representatives of Iraqi Christians told a parliamentary committee in Ottawa yesterday that Islamists are crucifying children to intimidate Christian parents into leaving the country. Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, hav...

Uzbekistan has long been a hazardous place for Christians.  Now the Uzbek government has launched a new campaign of vilification and persecution of religious believers in general, and Christian missionaries in particular. A documentary recently shown on state television suggests that charismati...