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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…

Where are the Mormon “Nuns on the Bus”?

By Joanna Brooks

…uthor Jeff Benedict promotes the image in his book The Mormon Way of Doing Business. Coverage of profit-driven LDS Church business practices (including the opening of a Church-owned luxury mall) in Businessweek and elsewhere this year have also contributed to the national imagination of the Mormon businessman. But is this image just an emerging Mormon stereotype? There are, after all, probably just as many failed Mormon businessmen as there are su…

The Tebow Superbowl Ad: Offense, Defense, or Interference?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…unthinkable, an abortion, and so they have ironically entered the realm of business. And here, the recent Supreme Court fudging aside, the rights of free expression in a business context do have significant limits. Gimme that Pro-Bowl Religion Probing those limits is the question, and the essence of the game. It is a close-run thing and a hard line to draw, to be sure. Here’s how you don’t draw it. You don’t cry foul based on what you have heard,…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…he service, not of persons who were citizens, but rather in the service of businesses that were almost surreally re-defined as “persons,” in the context of this bloody, war-won Amendment. So businesses received the protection of “due process,” and recognition as “persons,” even as freed blacks languished under Jim Crow. The promises of “equal protection” waited until 1954 to be delivered by the US Supreme Court to persons of African descent. To pu…

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

…no dogs no Irish’, we’ve moved on from that. If people want to operate in business, and have all the protections that the law gives people to operate as a commercial enterprise, then they need to comply with all aspects of the law and not cherry pick.” Israel: Justice Minister Presides Over Same-Sex Ceremony; Surrogacy Bill Advances Marriage by same-sex couples is not legal in Israel, but Justice Minister Tzipi Livni presided over a wedding cerem…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…about what is happening on the streets and what is going to happen in your business, what is going to happen in your church, what is going to happen in your school, or whether you will be able to keep your job or your business, because this is in the public domain, and what we are seeing really is a plan for sexual anarchy and sexual nihilism,” said West. He charged that persons who opposed the homosexual lifestyle in some countries are prosecuted…

The “Batsh*t Crazy” Party’s Candidates Assume Their “Religious Liberty” Stances

By Patricia Miller

……what I’ve said, Hugh, is that, look, where does it end? If you’re in the business of selling things, if you’re not going to sell to somebody you don’t agree with, OK, today I’m not going to sell to somebody who’s gay, and tomorrow maybe I won’t sell to somebody who’s divorced. I mean, if you’re in the business of commerce, conduct commerce. That’s my view. And if you don’t agree with their lifestyle, say a prayer for them when they leave and hop…

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?…