
Religious Freedom
January 31, 2021
Balancing Public Health and Religious Freedom—Churches and COVID-19
The New York State decision is not going to be the end of the discussion. Other cases are pending. Legislative bodies have...
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January 31, 2021
The New York State decision is not going to be the end of the discussion. Other cases are pending. Legislative bodies have...
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January 7, 2021
A federal judge dismissed a suit by Libby Hilsenrath, a New Jersey mother who claimed that a seventh-grade social studies...
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November 24, 2020
Groups or individuals on the receiving end of such attacks have a duty, not just a right, to make the truth about themselves...
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August 27, 2020
The case has drawn considerable attention not only because of the fate of plaintiff Gerald Bostock, a Clayton County employee...
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May 25, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly decide whether the State of Montana can prevent the use of public funds for any educational...
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April 10, 2020
A bill currently pending in the Ohio state legislature has resulted in statements that, if it becomes law, students would...
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December 28, 2019
Then there have been a slew of high-profile tragedies including the New Zealand mosque attacks, the Easter Sunday bombing...
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October 20, 2019
According to the astronomers supporting the project, it “will allow us to see deeper into space and observe cosmic objects...
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August 28, 2019
It’s obvious why journalists are wary of those who offer to trade information for profit— such people are all too likely...
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August 3, 2019
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that a 40-foot-high cross honoring residents of the Maryland town of Bladensburg...
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May 29, 2019
Religion is extremely valuable to society, but only when people are free to examine the subject for themselves and draw the...
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February 7, 2019
It is not “normal” for people to hate each other because they look different, come from a different place or have different...
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January 20, 2019
Probably everyone reading this post has personally observed the large and growing problem of homelessness in the United States....
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October 6, 2018
The venerable phrase “In God We Trust” has survived yet another legal attack and will continue to appear on the bills...
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August 25, 2018
A recently released report by the Pew Research Center showed that Americans are much more likely to be actively religious...
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July 11, 2018
The decision is a victory for the rights of religious groups to uphold standards for membership based on their own religious...
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May 15, 2018
I’ll end with my hope that the people of Indonesia will find an inclusive and fair way to treat all of its rich religious...
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April 16, 2018
A U.S. Appeals Court has recently ruled that a 40-foot high cross located at a busy intersection in Bladensburg, Maryland...
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February 12, 2018
I’m grateful to the contribution Luther made to religious freedom, which helped make it possible for Scientology to be practiced...
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December 12, 2017
I recently read an article in which the author asserted that the purpose of freedom of religion and “separation of church...
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September 13, 2017
A while ago I wrote a post about a squabble in Arizona over whether a humanist could give a benediction to the state legislature...
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June 30, 2017
Many generations of Supreme Court Justices have tried to define the correct balance of church and state.
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