State-Licensed Ministers Can’t “Pray Away the Gay,” SCOTUS Affirms
The Supreme Court’s refusal to consider an appeal of California’s 2012 ban on conversion therapy is the clearest sign…
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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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North Carolina Just Tried to Ban Marriage Equality Because “Almighty God” Said So
Lest anyone believed that North Carolina’s fake “repeal” of the odious, transphobic HB2 signaled a…
Read MoreA Pair of Courts Issue Revolutionary Rulings on LGBT Equality: One Scathing, One Beautiful
While Chase Strangio, the ACLU attorney who serves as lead counsel on trans high school student Gavin…
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Gorsuch Confirmed… But Don’t Get Too Bent Out of Shape
Well, it’s done. Moments ago the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch as the newest associate justice…
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Did SCOTUS Just Restore Sanity to Religious Liberty Debate?
Largely lost in the (understandable) hubbub about the Supreme Court’s historic Whole Woman’s Health v….
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Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom
Is it the habits? The crosses? What is it about the Little Sisters of the…
Read MoreThe “Batsh*t Crazy” Party’s Candidates Assume Their “Religious Liberty” Stances
If last night’s debate revealed anything beyond the fact that, in the words of Lindsey Graham,…
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Scalia’s (Not Very Catholic, Right Wing) Originalism
The late Antonin Scalia is rightly being remembered for almost single-handedly creating and promulgating the…
Read More3 Reasons the SCOTUS Challenge to Contraceptive Mandate is a “Religious Liberty” Stalking Horse
Now that the Supreme Court has announced that it will hear a consolidated set of…
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