What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment
On Monday, the Supreme Court took a dramatically new approach to the First Amendment, though…
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Did Richard Dawkins Hand Creationists Their Next School Strategy?
Since the 1990s the Discovery Institute, a conservative think-tank, has tried to make it easier…
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Mississippi Religious Lib Law Violates First Amendment and Shuts Out Religious Progressives
As I predicted after the first two lawsuits were filed against Mississippi’s House Bill 1523,…
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“Excruciatingly Different” Mississippi Religious Lib Law Specifies Beliefs
The Mississippi “religious liberty” law that will soon allow public officials to refuse service to…
Read MoreGeorgia Gov Vetoes Right-To-Discriminate Bill
Yesterday, Governor Nathan Deal announced that he would veto HB 757, a broad religious exemption…
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The “Religious Freedom” Issue That May Cost the Accused Boston Bomber His Life
Forget the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should worry about “death-qualifying” the jury.
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The Big Lie Misrepresentation in Louisiana “Seal of Confessional” Case
The systematic abuse of the free exercise clause strikes again. In this latest episode, according to bloggers at Hot Air and the American Conservative, “[t]he…
Read MoreAre Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?
While sanctimonious conservatives and godless liberals alike await the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Hobby…
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In Tea Party Senate Candidate’s Dissertation, A Nostalgia for a Populist Christian Nation
Ben Sasse, winner of last week’s Republican Senate primary in Nebraska and likely the next senator from that…
Read MoreAfter Greece, Humanists Launch Push for Secular Invocations
Following yesterday’s Supreme Court decision holding sectarian legislative prayer constitutional, the American Humanist Association has announced…
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