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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On Historic “Decision Day,” SCOTUS Sends LGBT Americans Mixed Messages
For LGBT legal nerds like me, June 26 is an important day. Every major pro-equality…
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Wait Until You’re Denied Service, Federal Court Tells LGBT Mississippians Challenging “Religious Freedom” Law
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled today that Mississippi’s…
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Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback
A roundtable discussion with RD’s Sunnivie Brydum, Patricia Miller, and Anita Little.
Read MoreTexas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors
Nine sitting law professors at major universities in Texas have drafted an open letter to…
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Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”
This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the…
Read MoreTexas Pastor: Christians Claiming “Religious Persecution” Are Actually Just “Selfish”
It’s not every day that a Baptist pastor based in Texas urges his congregants to…
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Innocuous SCOTUS Ruling Opens Door For Discriminatory Religious Institutions to Access Public Funds
On its surface, the first religious liberty case heard by the now-fully-seated Supreme Court seems to…
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Humiliating “Kim Davis Bill” To “Protect” Anti-LGBT County Clerks Passes Texas Senate
While everyone (including me) was busy blasting North Carolina for its latest (unconstitutional) effort to…
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Why “Religion or Politics?” Is the Wrong Question
No wonder Americans are so unhappy—we have made a virtue of denying ourselves integrity in favor of psycho-somatic division.
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