8 Bill Maher Statements For UC Berkeley To Consider Before Commencement
The brouhaha over Bill Maher’s recent remarks about Islam and Muslims is growing weirder by…
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Was Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?
Seemingly to prove the thesis of God’s Not Dead—i.e., that colleges and universities are bastions of…
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A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012
On September 13, when word came that my friend, the Rev. Howard Moody, had died…
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When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)
Why on earth is an orthodox Jew pushing a turbaned Muslim man in a wheelchair on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, the French baby-boomers’ favorite satirical magazine? Don’t bother looking for any deep symbolism—you won’t find it.
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‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists
A state that attempts to use the force of law to stop blasphemy must select certain identities for protection to the exclusion of others.
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?
Read MoreFlorida Governor Signs Law Defending Educators’ Right to Witness
Teachers and administrators free to proselytize. . . unless they agree not to.
Read MoreChanneling T.S. Eliot, Ross Douthat Fears The Loss of Taboo
Is it Ross Douthat? Or a reincarnation of T.S. Eliot?
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Christian Lawyers Claim Religious Persecution
The Christian Legal Society has sued Hastings College of Law for its refusal to recognize their group as an official campus club, claiming their freedom to practice their faith is being challenged. An expert on church-state separation law says the case is more about the religious right’s “political moxie” to claim religious persecution than about religious liberty.
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