Religion Dispatches
Either sincere religious conviction should be a defense, or it shouldn’t. There should be a healthy debate about religious exemptions in a pluralistic society, but not about the content of the religious conviction concerned.
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There’s much to say about this week’s arguments, including the question of whether the employers were arguing, in effect, that it is acceptable to discriminate against LGBTQ people so long as they discriminate against all LGBTQ people.
Read MoreWhile the issues are piling up, the Supreme Court—and U.S. society more broadly—will have to face the questions ducked in Masterpiece Cakeshop, or else be willing to settle for a level of uncertainty that serves no one.
Read MoreAn anti-gay breakaway group has to return a half a billion dollars worth of property to the Episcopal Church.
Read MoreThe Court may not have explicitly rejected Phillips’s free speech claims, but the fact that seven of nine justices chose not to follow Phillips and his attorneys in their primary reasoning, even while ruling in their favor, is noteworthy.
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By now we’ve all learned that the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Masterpiece Cakeshop case in…
Read MoreCatholic Charities might rather go out of business than allow same-sex couples to adopt a child.
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In 2013, as the U.S. Supreme Court was deciding U.S. v. Windsor, the case that…
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There has been a lot of talk lately about religious exemptions—legal arrangements that excuse individuals…
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Imagine a congregation—maybe even a whole denomination—that’s raising money from its members in order to…
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