At each stage of the journey of gay liberation, religious traditionalists and social conservatives have fought – against legalisation, against social acceptance, against equalising the age of consent, against civil partnerships.
So, a few days before Pennsylvanians vote, the candidates could have commemorated not just the Exodus from Egypt but also "the shot heard round the world," thus identifying themselves all at once with political liberation, religious freedom and — yes! — the right to bear arms.
Mother Emanuel exemplifies the best of our religious tradition--liberation, love and reconciliation.
The Arab world, and Muslim-majority societies, need not only political uprisings, but also a thoroughgoing intellectual revolution from within that will open the door to economic change; to spiritual, religious, cultural and artistic liberation; and to the empowerment of women.
Beverly Milton-Edwards describes the Palestinian fedayeen as "modern revolutionaries fighting for national liberation, not religious salvation," distinguishing them from mujahaddin (i.e. "fighters of the jihad").
Not only do Muslims need to realize the democratic potential of the Arab Awakening, they need "a thoroughgoing intellectual revolution from within that will open the door to economic change; to spiritual, religious, cultural and artistic liberation; and to the empowerment of women".
To the masses, Jesus spoke of liberation from both religious and political tyranny.
"The pro-choice movement seeks liberation from the religious underpinnings of the reproductive rights debate, as do we," said Jex Blackmore, the director of the Satanic Temple's Detroit chapter.
Liberation theology, a religious movement that sought to combine socialism with an understanding of salvation as liberation from injustice, emerged out of South America in response to political upheaval and economic inequality.
Poggio's discovery, he argues, brought about a liberation for scientific and religious thought that spread throughout Europe.
