What Happens When An American President Believes He is Above the Law?
Americans like to talk about law as if it something real, something outside the thoughts…
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Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?
Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Western nations have harbored a collective anxiety about…
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Religion or Insanity? Two Upcoming Murder Trials Will Ask the (Burning) Question
…but does it have to be one or the other?
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In Russia It Is Now a Crime to Insult Someone’s Religious Feelings
The protection of religious believers’ feelings has been enshrined in the Russian Civil Code for quite some time, but making it a criminal offense to insult the feelings of religious believers could bring with it much harsher penalties.
Read MoreGhana’s LGBT Population Safe From Persecution, But Not Prosecution
Ghana’s President John Mills gives mixed signals on LGBT rights
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Why Can’t We Take Death Seriously? The Obama Administration’s Latest Retreat
The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.
Read MoreReligious Freedom Victory in Tennessee
Jesus Was Single
How can a secular state justify its desire to discriminate between married persons and single persons? What compelling state interest is served by creating such social groups? I suspect that when this debate has made its way through the courts, a new issue will have emerged: that the state has no business in the marriage business, period.
Read MoreWant Marriage Equality? Follow the Money
No matter what Welton Gaddy might hope, anti-gay religious groups are not interested in finding common ground on marriage equality—they need the conflict to fill their coffers.
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RDPulpit: They Plug Up Their Ears With Bible Verses
Religious people who want their government to deny legal marriage to gays and lesbians ought to think more clearly about the rights they would lose if the wall between church and state were to crumble.
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