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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Are Kosher Delis Like Catholic Hospitals?
On the Parable of the Kosher Deli, contraception, and freedom of religion.
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Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle
What propelled a ginned up controversy into a media frenzy wasn’t that the Bishops opposed Obama—again; it was that “even progressive Catholics” were up in arms about it.
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The GOP’s Race to the
Dark Ages
Birth control bans and religious liberty.
Read MoreWhat the USCCB’s New “Religious Liberty” Initiative Took from Evangelicals
From a “collision course” with LGBT activism to a full-scale “neutering.”
Read MoreIn ‘God Hates Fags’ Case, Free Speech Trumps Free Exercise
The erosion continues.
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The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation
Will Americans wake up to find that the robust religious freedom they enjoyed back at the beginning of the 21st century had become extinct before anyone even noticed it was endangered?
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The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause
How did we get to the point where the infringement of a religious obligation is constitutionally irrelevant despite the existence in the text of a constitutional protection of religion?
Kagan: Establishment Clause Is “Hard”
Supreme Court nominee’s responses to church-state separation questions unclear on where she stands.
Read MoreDo Champions of Government Displays of Religion Deny Their Faith?
Justice Kennedy wrote in majority opinion, Mojave Desert Cross cross “is not merely a reaffirmation of Christian beliefs” but a symbol “often used to honor and respect” heroism.
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