religious liberty

Religious Liberty Returns to the Supreme Court

David Thornton April 24, 2023

Religious liberty was back at the Supreme Court over a postal worker who felt that working on...

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The Fatal Flaw in Using Faith as Permission to Discriminate

Tod Kelly April 10, 2015

Or: Why you don't really believe that religious liberty should allow what you think it should.

Religious Liberty Means Religious Privilege

Kyle Cupp July 26, 2013

So far two bakeries have faced legal challenges to their refusal to make wedding cakes for same-sex...

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Whose Religious Liberty? What Value Pluralism? What Attention Span?

Conor P. Williams August 14, 2012

Caveat: I know that this is off-message and we’re all supposed to be fighting over whether or not...

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Peter Singer Is Wrong

J.L. Wall June 20, 2012

The famed bioethicist nods in approval at a Dutch politician’s assertion that animal rights trump religious freedom....

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The Manhattan Declaration

Erik Kain December 3, 2009

Well, this is the trajectory of the modern Christian right. Its leaders have signed this declaration, further...

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Gay marriage and religious liberty ctd.

Erik Kain November 18, 2009

“E.D., please note, is a supporter of same-sex marriage, and believes the Catholic Church is very wrong...

Same Sex Marriage, the Courts, and Religious Liberty: How Much of a Conflict? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-rijks.bend-in-the-herengracht-seen-from-the-vijzelstraat-167001

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Same Sex Marriage, the Courts, and Religious Liberty: How Much of a Conflict?

Mark of New Jersey November 17, 2009

Time for some blawging. Rod Dreher makes the case, once again, that same-sex marriage presents a unique...

Fish in reply to fillyjonk on Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It AgainWe joke that one of our guys here is our "union rep," and this week we were jokingly spreading the t…
Fish on Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It AgainKinda looks like maybe it's going to be a dud, apart from the cold...but it's early yet! It could st…
Michael Cain on Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It AgainWhen my children were small they would ask if it was the last snow of the season. I always told them…
fillyjonk on Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It AgainI need to hit the grocery, too. I'm gonna go to the nicer one (An Albertson's) about a half hour to…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Well, the good news is that the cops were called and the guy was removed without any particularly we…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect ArrestedAre you familiar with the fallacy "Begging the Question"? It's an important one!
InMD in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I don't know why you'd think Trump is scared but one hopes this combined with the strongly worded 4t…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect ArrestedSo, yes, that sounds plausible, but also...no. It's not _just_ that. There are a lot of people who h…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025As far as I can tell, the Republicans have a “whatabout” for every single “precedent” that the Democ…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I’m pretty sure that we’re *ALL* members of the press. When the First Amendment was written, “the pr…