Religion Dispatches
The balance between the right to free exercise of religion and the right of employees to equal protection under the law is not easy to strike, and the Hosanna-Tabor decision doesn’t appear to strike it at all.
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Non-believers and the community of liberal believers, typically the ones attempting to ban religious imagery from the public square, have avoided specifying which forms of communal expression of meaning are appropriate.
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Rejecting forty-three years of legal precedent the court voted 5-4 to devote public money to religious institutions. Justice Kennedy wins the 2011 Tortured Judicial Casuistry Award for his remarks.
Read MoreThe erosion continues.
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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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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?
After Citizens United, we need a political anti-bullying theology.
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One of the strange aspects of broadcaster Glenn Beck’s recent moves to transform himself into a religious leader as well as entertainer and “educator” has been his intense attacks on President Obama’s theology of salvation, which he has called “evil” and “satanic.”
Read MoreWhat if the same reasoning were applied during the Civil Rights Era?
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Why is the religious right so unhappy?
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