Celebrating Religious Freedom Day By Taking Back the Revolutionary Meaning of ‘Religious Freedom’
Religious freedom has been at the center of American history since the founding. (And by…
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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
Jack Rakove, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, is back with another prize-worthy book, Beyond Belief, Beyond…
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The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy
Thinking of these killers as “lone wolf” actors makes it easier to dismiss them as demented individuals, hapless victims of bad parenting, self-destructive misfits, or erratic evil doers. But we need to see these “lone wolf” white supremacists for what they are—members of “wolf packs.”
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LGBTQ Equality Pendulum “Abruptly” Swinging Back as Religious Exemptions Gain Victories
As the U.S. Supreme Court continues to mull the arguments of a baker who on…
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The Religious Case Against Religious Discrimination in Cakeshop Case
It might be tempting to think that Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission—the upcoming…
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The Subway Sandwich Artist Argument; When “Religious Freedom” Isn’t About Religious Freedom
Consider this faintly ridiculous hypothetical: I am in line at my local Subway sandwich shop,…
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Trump’s DOJ Wants Constitutional Protection for Wedding Cakes, Not LGBT People
Nine months into Donald Trump’s presidency, it should surprise no one to learn that his…
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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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The “Religious Freedom” President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment
For all his talk of protecting religious freedom, one of the First Amendment’s five sacred…
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Mississippi’s Gov. Bryant Resorts To Far-Fetched Analogy To Defend Anti-LGBT HB 1523
According to Bryant, the carve-outs in HB 1523 are no different than federal laws protecting pacifists from military conscription.
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