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A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…s at stake in its signing: First Amendment rights to the free exercise of religion and to free speech: I am very pleased to be signing this bill into law. The graves of our veterans are hallowed ground. And obviously we all defend our Constitution and the First Amendment and free speech, but we also believe that when men and women die in the service of their country and are laid to rest, it should be done with the utmost honor and respect. The ne…

There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

By Austin Dacey

…tonomy, associative freedom, and private property that, while neither uniquely relevant to religion nor defined in terms of religion, will allow religious practice to flourish.” The religious are free, but not because they enjoy religious freedom. They are free insofar as all are free. In a liberal society, we all inhabit an equal space of personal and associative liberty in which to worship, blaspheme, or just fix our suppers. As Sullivan notes,…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…óñez Maldonado has challenged these unions in court. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet last year backed nuptials for gays and lesbians during her election campaign. Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro, has also spoken out in support of marriage rights for same-sex couples on the Communist island. The Ecuadorian government is in the process of implementing a law that will allow same-sex couples to legally register their civil…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sex marriage by two-to-one. “I know many people in this room have deeply held religious beliefs. I personally leave my religious beliefs outside that door when I come in here to debate issues that affect people’s lives…. “We need to accept homosexuality as part of what is normal in our society. We have to afford them equal rights. This is the only place on these islands where same sex marriage is not allowed.” Guam: Anti-marriage equality governo…

Supreme Court Conservatives Allow Execution of Muslim Prisoner Despite Religious Freedom Violation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…raph opinion, the Supreme Court said that Ray took too long to raise this religious freedom issue and let Alabama execute him. Alabama did. Ray’s imam was not in the room, nor was the Christian chaplain, a last-minute concession. Let’s leave aside the question of whether government chaplains are constitutional (James Madison didn’t think so: “The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of C…

Why Hobby Lobby is a Pandora’s Box: Ginsburg v. Alito

By Julie Ingersoll

…. Here’s why. This was not a First Amendment case. It was filed under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Understanding this will require a little legal history but I promise to keep it brief. Prior to 1990 The Court ruled on First Amendment Free Exercise claims with a test known as the Sherbert Test. Constitutional rights are not absolute (think laws against human sacrifice). Essentially an infringement on Free Exercise was permitted if…

DeSantis is a No-Show, the Right’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ and Final Thoughts on Pray Vote Stand

By PRA Staff

…nergized and on the move, and is focused not only on national and state-level electoral races but also on capturing school boards, election infrastructure and other local institutions. What struck me more than anything else was how depressingly cult-like it all felt. Over and over throughout the three-day conference, appeals to seize political power were intertwined with direct and personal promises to soothe the deepest and most intimate wellspri…

Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in Masterpiece

By Patrick Hornbeck

…l issue at stake in Masterpiece Cakeshop: whether and to what extent sincerely held religious objections to same-sex marriage should be allowed to exempt someone from generally applicable laws. It remains to be seen exactly when one or more cases with less troublesome facts will make it impossible for the Court to take another procedural sidestep (as it remains to be seen, as some have noted, whether Justice Kennedy will apply his logic to the Cou…

Stem Cell Chronicles: Why Politics and Science Most Certainly Should Not Be Separated

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…commitments. The lifting of the ban was a crucial moment in the defense of free speech and the exercise of free expression, said the President. This kind rhetoric is maddening to conservatives and rightly so; it places their moral concerns on a back burner, by suggesting that the articulation of such concern makes one anti-scientific. Don’t get me wrong: President Obama is surely right to announce, and in bold terms, that the nightmarish condition…

Who’s to Blame for BP?

By David True

…Great Man theory is somewhat distorting, the Act of God theory is utterly self-deluding. Both Perry and Paul adhere to a form of libertarianism that places a strong emphasis on individual responsibility. Their political agenda is to free individuals from what they see as the burdensome, even oppressive, control of government by lowering taxes and decreasing government spending and regulation. The cruel irony is that the spill appears to have been…