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Strippers versus Church: Cosmic Battle With Civic Consequences

By Joseph Laycock

…ole, filed a lawsuit against the church asking for restitution for loss of business. When the lawsuit was dismissed, he petitioned the county to remove the protestors. This request was also denied citing freedom of speech—though a judge limited the number of protestors that could be present to fifteen. So on August 8, George and several of his strippers decided to turn the tables by holding their own protest in front of the church during Sunday mo…

Bobby Jindal Squares Packing Heat with Jesus

By Welton Gaddy

…rtance of treating a house of worship any differently than a university, a business, or a civic auditorium (recall his defense for using taxpayers’ dollars to fly around Louisiana giving his Christian testimony exclusively in evangelical churches). Little wonder that he would fail to see a difference between carrying concealed weapons to a church and to a civil protest. But, thankfully, no government leader gets the right to determine the sanctity…

Anti-Gay Groups Running Out of Search Engines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he Family were champions of business and the free market. If a company wants to give an extra perk one group of its employees so it can attract and retain qualified talent, then what business is it of yours? Or, do you only champion the freedom of businesses to do as they please only when it benefits the people you like?…

Catholic Child Neglect: DC Archdiocese Cuts Adoption Rather Than Abide Same-Sex Parents

By Mary E. Hunt

…they, too, were expected to obey the law. So they went out of the adoption business. They reasoned that it made up 4% of their budget so it could be sacrificed in order to keep the rest of their government funding. Religion is a dirty business. In Catholicism, a lot of local activities are dictated by the Vatican. Surely the “success” of the Boston move was made clear to the DC people who followed suit. I expect more dioceses to fall in line as sa…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…ated that “Planned Parenthood’s representative made it appear the abortion business would have no problem with doing abortions” for women seeking to select for sex. “In fact, comments from Planned Parenthood’s representative make some wonder whether the abortion business would ever ask if a woman or couple wanted an abortion for that reason.” I asked Ertelt to clarify what he meant: How had the Planned Parenthood representative “made it appear” th…

Profits Over Principles for Romney?

By Joanna Brooks

…be true that Mitt Romney was CEO of Bain when they won some Phillip Morris business,… the Russian strategy stuff, which sounds more damning, seems to have mostly happened from 1993-1995,” when Orit Gadiesh was Bain’s CEO. However, Jason Linkins challenges McArdle’s conclusions in his Huffington Post article, presenting evidence that it was Romney who was actually in charge of Bain during these years. To whatever extent Romney was involved and to w…

Kansas Tries to Figure Out Its Own Religious Freedom Laws

By Sarah Posner

…ference also wants protections for non-clergy. HB 2453 would have shielded business owners, private employees and government employees who declined to serve couples on religious grounds, provisions which were opposed by gay rights activists as discriminatory. Another state group, Kansans for Liberty, is disappointed that the Senate failed to take up HB 2453 after it passed the House. Its president, Craig Gabel, seems to have a firm grasp on the le…

As Hobby Lobby Heads to SCOTUS, Let’s Ditch Kosher Butcher Analogies

By Sarah Posner

…es Union told me, this is an “inapt analogy” because the kosher butcher’s “business is about religion in a very, very different way.” Hobby Lobby’s business, she said, “is not in any way about religion,” as it offers “a service that goes out to everybody.” As Sarna noted, the analogy is inapt also because the kosher butcher parable, in contrast to the actual Hobby Lobby case, doesn’t involve the employer imposing its religious views on its employe…

Note to David Brat: Free Markets Are Not Calvinist

By Kate Blanchard

…hurch, to establish distinctly non-libertarian laws in Geneva about money, business, sex, heresy, church attendance, and all manner of things most self-designated “Calvinists” would today consider private. This is not to say he might not have been a nice guy (by many reports he was a loving husband, father, and friend), but he certainly resists the libertarian label. Also in contrast to modern capitalist dogma, Calvin was very clear that wealthy p…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…persecution in the Maldives. The article quotes New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment as stating that Naim was “at risk of serious harm from state agents” and that “there is a real chance of persecution if he returned to the Maldives”. Naim also told the news website that he has been prey to numerous online threats and hate mail. “My entire existence is controversial,” he said. Asked to comment on the matter today, Mushri…