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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Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You
It was the best of the end times. It was the worst of the end…
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UPDATED: Turning Catholic School’s Anti-Mask Theology Into a Faith Argument is Just Fine With Religious Right (Even if it is Based on Garbage Theology)
UPDATE, July 27: The Catholic journalist Tony Spence points out that the Diocese of Lansing…
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First Roe, Then Contraception: Unless Action is Taken, Supreme Court is About to Strike Down Fundamental Rights of American Women
Sixteen days before Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, the Supreme Court scheduled a conference on a…
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Can Democrats Question Amy Coney Barrett’s Faith? Yes! Should They? Well…
Let’s cut right to the paper chase, as it were. Amy Coney Barrett’s faith is…
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New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism
How completely de-Christianized and secularized has Western Europe become? Data from the EU tell a…
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Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow
Evangelical authoritarianism is a problem that the American mainstream as a rule fails to treat with the seriousness it demands, in part because it’s easy to laugh at the antics of a Robert Jeffress while assuming that more respectable conservative evangelicals are more moderate and more numerous.
Read MoreReligious Freedom Battle Is Far From Over: Here’s What to Look for in 2019
While the issues are piling up, the Supreme Court—and U.S. society more broadly—will have to face the questions ducked in Masterpiece Cakeshop, or else be willing to settle for a level of uncertainty that serves no one.
Read MoreReligious Freedom Manifesto Calls for Compromise and Civility—What’s So Wrong With That?
Behind earnestly worded appeals for religious freedom and respect is a pretense that the Framers of the Constitution and the First Amendment somehow intended to justify discrimination against others.
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Religious Freedom May Now Include Discrimination Against Jews and Muslims
South Carolina governor Henry McMaster moved to protect Miracle Hill and other agencies that want to to discriminate against Jews and others and continue to receive government funding.
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