Judges may not "rely on the neutrality of the courts alone as a justification for preventing litigants from accessing a courtroom simply because they are expressing sincerely held religious beliefs."
No, a baker cannot be compelled to "support gay marriage" with frosting.
But many of the Alternative for Deutschland's leaders have questionable track records when it comes to anti-Semitism.
Father David Boase was led to believe that he was eligible to vote. His mistake caught up with him 12 years later.
The head of Ideas Beyond Borders is translating books by Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, and others into Arabic and distributing them for free.
Harris and other Democrats distorted Kavanaugh's comments on birth control to portray him as a religious extremist.
The church denied the government's request to install CCTVs.
But if the show must exist, I have some ripped-from-the-headlines ideas for upcoming plots.
Chaldean-Assyrians aren't safe in their home country. But reuniting with family in a new one feels impossible.
Depletion of trust and confidence in public and private institutions is happening across the board and leads to more, not less, government.
Death squads are after Father Amado Picardal, an early critic of the Philippine drug war.
Both right and left decry implicit government discrimination on the basis of religion when it targets groups they sympathize with. But both are all too ready to turn a blind eye in other cases.
Israa al-Ghomgham would be the first female activist to be executed in Saudi Arabia.
What could go wrong with federalizing the corporate charter process and putting bureaucrats in charge of long-term business thinking?
Libertarians think freedom creates the conditions that lead to human flourishing. The Catholic Church has a name for that.
This leads to a rare potential victory for someone who illegally came to the U.S. from Indonesia, and who is seeking to reopen his asylum case.
Opponents claim forbidding landlords from discriminating against tenants for using medical marijuana is unconstitutional.
"This is a rally for all people who hold sacred the founding Constitutional principles of Religious Freedom and Free Expression..."
According to the official handling the teen's asylum application, his walk, dress, and actions proved he couldn't be gay.
The bill was passed unanimously by the state Senate, but has remained in the House since February 2017.
Masterpiece Cakeshop is back with a new lawsuit over another rejection.
An interesting case now being litigated in federal court in Wisconsin.
Thanks to legislation that passed in March, all Florida public schools must display "In God We Trust" signage in "a conspicuous place."
"The IRS recognized it as a 501(c)(3) organization and went the extra step of recognizing PCMW as a church, the most enviable of all tax statuses. exempt not only from income tax but also from the transparency that filing Form 990 creates. A church does not have to apply for exempt status, but it is a prudent step particularly for an innovative organization like PCMW."
The Nobel laureate had a brilliant, sadly ignored insight that would have short-circuited the worst cultural and political reactions of the past 17 years.
The church's catechism now calls capital punishment "inadmissible" and says it's "an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person."
A Pennsylvania town is trying to force an Amish widow to ignore her religious beliefs in the name of public utilities.
The modestly dressed kids supposedly ran afoul of a previously unenforced cotton ban.
So report Czech media.
An Indiana judge just issued a blow to the state's First Church of Cannabis.
The former president has "no problem" with gay weddings, though he adds that churches shouldn't be forced to perform them.
Facebook apologizes to Zion's Joy! after treating a music video like a campaign ad.
"The majority's view, if taken literally, could radically change prior law," warn the Court's liberal justices.
Some preliminary comments on a badly flawed ruling.
The U.S. has nearly unlimited power to decide when foreigners are admitted to the country, even based on factors (such as ideology, religion, and likely race and sex) that would be unconstitutional as to people already in the country.
Washington State told to revisit ruling against Arlene's Flowers.
The Florida Evidence Code apparently requires clergy to testify about confessions to them, if the penitent allows them to do so -- but Catholic doctrine forbids any such testimony, regardless of the penitent's wishes. Which should prevail?
New York appellate court reverses a judgment (likely prompted by one of the parents' religious beliefs) that bars either parent from feeding the child "fish, meat, or poultry" without the other's consent.
Despite its ruling in favor of a Colorado baker, the Court remains hostile to religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws.
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