Religion Dispatches
We believe it weakens religious freedom when it is invoked in ways that deprive people of their civil and human rights to equal protection under the law, or seek to justify exclusion and discrimination.
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The 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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Religious freedom has been much in the news as the Trump administration has rolled out…
Read MoreLaunched initially in 2015, Project Blitz brings something new and dramatic to the Christian Right as it continues to mature as a political movement—especially in light of its electoral advances in state governments over the past decade.
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Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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Billy Graham’s death on the same day as the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm…
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Are they or aren’t they? As pundits have noticed, younger white evangelicals show signs that…
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Historian John Ragosta details some of the strikingly similar issues over the proper place of religion and religious expression in a secular nation compromised of mostly religious individuals.
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To listen to the Christian Right, which has been busy seeking religious exemptions from laws governing…
Read MoreIt may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan.
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