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      In Latest Round of LGBTQ Discrimination Cases Before SCOTUS, Religion Is ‘The Elephant in the Room’
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      ‘Empty the Pews’ Gives Voice to Those Who’ve Escaped Toxic Christianity
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      Progressive Christian Arrogance Isn’t as Big a Threat as ‘Just Be Nice’
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      SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree
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      ‘Empty the Pews’ Gives Voice to Those Who’ve Escaped Toxic Christianity
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      How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power and Exclusion
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      Queer Nuns: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Are “Serious Parody,” Forcing us to Redefine Nuns
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      What Would Jesus Get Wrong? Ohio Bill Could Legitimize the Wrong Answer in Schools
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      Trump White House Cranks Religion to 11 As Impeachment Looms
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      Progressive Christian Arrogance Isn’t as Big a Threat as ‘Just Be Nice’
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Elizabeth Reiner Platt

Liz Platt is Director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School. Previously, she was a Carr Center for Reproductive Justice Fellow at A Better Balance. Her paper Gangsters to Greyhounds: The Past, Present and Future of Offender Registration, was recently cited in an opinion enhancing due process rights for convicted persons.

Politics/Law, Religious LibertyJanuary 31, 2019

Texas Woman Opposes Divorce Citing ‘Blood Covenant’; Will Anti-Sharia Law Get in the Way?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

The conflict between Shawn’s request for state enforcement of her Christian understanding of marriage and anti-sharia legislation raises larger questions about whose religious beliefs are, or should be, respected under the law.

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Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeJune 5, 2018

Will SCOTUS’s New Zeal for “Neutrality” Affect its Decision on the “Muslim Ban”?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

The Town of Greece v. Galloway decision­­­ in 2014—also written by Justice Kennedy—upheld a town’s practice of holding legislative prayer during public meetings, even though these prayers were uniformly Christian. Where was neutrality on religion then?

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyJune 27, 2017

What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

On Monday, the Supreme Court took a dramatically new approach to the First Amendment, though…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyMarch 14, 2017

Because You’re Not Fooling Anyone: Why Trump Travel Ban 2.0 Still Unconstitutional

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

Trump’s second attempt at banning travel from certain Muslim-majority countries is clearly written to avoid…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderFebruary 22, 2017

WA Supreme Court: LGBT Discrimination No More About Flowers Than Civil Rights Were About Sandwiches

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

Court guarantees equality, not roses.

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Archive, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderFebruary 16, 2017

What Muslim Ban? A Religious Liberty Hearing in the Trump Era

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the “State of Religious Liberty…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/LawApril 19, 2016

The Latest on Zubik v. Burwell: Religious Orgs Propose a Compromise That They Themselves Would Oppose

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

With headlines like “53 Percent Say Making Nuns Participate in Obamacare Birth Control Mandate is Unfair,”…

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Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderMarch 29, 2016

Georgia Gov Vetoes Right-To-Discriminate Bill

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

Yesterday, Governor Nathan Deal announced that he would veto HB 757, a broad religious exemption…

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Archive, Sexuality/GenderMarch 10, 2016

Silence of “Religious Liberty” Activists on Muslims’ Cases Not What You Think

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

It’s the economics, stupid.

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