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Kara Loewentheil

Kara Loewentheil is the Director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project and a Research Fellow at Columbia Law School. She has held academic and litigation fellowships at Yale Law School and the Center for Reproductive Rights, and from 2008 to 2010 she clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She regularly writes and speaks about religious accommodations and sexual and reproductive rights across the country.

Kara Loewentheil, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderOctober 24, 2014

The Problem with the Notion of “Closely-Held Corporations” in Hobby Lobby

By Kara Loewentheil

The Hobby Lobby decision relied, to some extent, on the existence of a thing called “closely-held corporations”; only that’s not really a thing at all.

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Kara Loewentheil, OMFG, RD BlogOctober 10, 2014

Scalia on Muslim Beard Case: “Religious Beliefs Aren’t Reasonable”

By Kara Loewentheil

On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard arguments in Holt v. Hobbs, a case about whether a…

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(A)theologies, Kara Loewentheil, OMFG, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderOctober 8, 2014

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men “Stand Up” for “Religious Freedom”… On a Plane

By Kara Loewentheil

It’s the same pattern of behavior we’re seeing from other “religious freedom” fighters.

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Archive, Kara Loewentheil, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderOctober 2, 2014

“No” to Gay Means “No” to AA: Why the “Sandbox” Argument is Misleading

By Kara Loewentheil

In a story that hasn’t yet been widely picked up in the national media, a…

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