Tag: religious freedom

"Religious freedom." It doesn't sound so bad, does it? Who would be opposed to it? In fact, the First Amendment makes it clear we have a tacit...

Hello, dear readers, your friendly liberal lawyer is back with another guide to the oft-misunderstood first amendment. This week we'll look at religious free...

Many red states have started trying to pass "religious freedom" bills over the last year. They call it "religious freedom," but it's really a...

What does "religious freedom" mean to you? Is it the right of the religious to freely promote and practice their religious beliefs unadulterated or...

Most of the furor over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act focused on the prospect that it could legally sanction discrimination against the LGBT community....

For some strange reason, many Christians seem to think they are being persecuted in this country. In a Public Religion Research Institute survey, 74 percent...

My Dear Fellow Christians: Just like you, I was raised in a church. My family was, for at least most of my childhood, very involved...

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed in 1993 "to ensure that interests in religious freedom are protected." Lately, the bill has been used to more...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are all about maintaining the "religious freedom" to establish and cultivate Jim Crow-esque approaches to the LGBT...

The Missouri legislature just dealt a huge blow to the so-called "religious freedom" laws that have been spreading through the U.S. like wildfire. After Democrats...

Yesterday, I told you that in four states--including my state of North Carolina--church-affiliated day care centers are allowed to get away with things that...

Two weeks ago, it looked like Georgia was on the verge of joining the parade of discrimination disguised as religious freedom. After all, a...

In the wake of the veto of the anti-LBGT law in Georgia and the national outrage over HB 2 passed in North Carolina, another southern state...

Being born and raised in Tennessee, I can honestly say that I’ve never been more proud of my home state’s legislature as I was...

It seems that Ted Cruz and his far-right Christian supporters took advantage of the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia this past...

The highly-contentious conflict of religious freedom has a new battlefield. A sociology professor who was scheduled to speak at Brigham Young University's 22nd Annual...

Kim Davis is still defying the Supreme Court in the name of her religious beliefs. Paul Elam has referred to Bill Cosby's victims as...

A Michigan cash advance store kicked a Muslim woman out of the store for refusing to take off her hijab. We can all see that...

Back in May, I told you that the chairman of the county commission in Lincoln County, North Carolina--northwest of my hometown of Charlotte--was none...

// // When Indiana lawmakers passed their state's version of religious freedom, America foamed at the mouth in disposition toward it. Now, American's can...