SCOTUS May Yet Approve Gay Wedding Cake Demands
Despite its ruling in favor of a Colorado baker, the Court remains hostile to religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws.
Despite its ruling in favor of a Colorado baker, the Court remains hostile to religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws.
The Supreme Court's ruling was based on state officials' apparent hostility to the bakers' religious beliefs. There is far stronger evidence of such hostility in the travel ban case.
Immigrants who commit crimes should be punished. But no more than others who commit the same offense.
Free extra credit to "encourage female students to go [in]to information sciences."
If the Supreme Court rules that Trump's campaign statements cannot be used to prove that his travel ban order was an attempt to discriminate against Muslims, it could create a dangerous precedent.
Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
A third court disagrees. The Supreme Court had the chance to take on the case to resolve the conflict, but it declined.
Meanwhile, drunk driving and vehicular assault by officers are not firing offenses in Hudson County.
Lower courts are split on whether sex-based protections cover orientation.
Businesses shouldn't have to serve those who offend them.
This country has a long history of protections for freedom of conscience.
Politicians should butt out of people's personal habits.
"Our findings reveal widespread suspicion that morality requires belief in a god."
In one case, a person whose legal identity was listed as male was arrested for sitting at a bus stop while "dressed as a woman" and carrying condoms.
The Department of Justice argues that sexual orientation isn't covered unless Congress adds it.
Want to end trans discrimination? Stop forcing people to label themselves.
Citing a backlog of complaints, the Title IX enforcement office pledges to prioritize case resolution over fishing expeditions.
He won't host same-sex weddings, but his farm isn't even within city limits.
You may see yourselves as artists, but the state of Washington does not see bouquets as a form of expression.
Refusing any voluntary hysterectomies presented as discrimination.
If the decision holds, it would essentially add LGBT protections to existing laws.
State still wants to keep cities from adding to antidiscrimination protections.
Defenders of traditional marriage used the law to persecute polygamists. Now they're the ones under attack.
Calculating how preponderance of the evidence falsely 'convicts' the innocent on campus.
SCOTUS unanimously upheld the ministerial exception five years ago. It's already being challenged again.
British citizens are asking their government to "make it illegal for a company to require women to wear high heels at work."
Laws that force individuals into unwanted business relationships are unjust.
Both sides claim dishonesty from their foes.
A bill aimed at protecting Jewish students from discrimination would have a chilling effect on constitutionally protected speech.
The bill, unanimously approved by the Senate last week, intensifies the conflict between antidiscrimination law and freedom of speech.
New poll gives insight in what has become a national debate.
Many people believe it's already against the law.
When does institutional protection of student-victim privacy cross the line into censorship?
Officers also say they were retaliated against for speaking up about the situation.
Daily Show segment doesn't illustrate a serious problem. It highlights how culture often works issues out on its own.
It's speech-but is it 'expressive' speech?
Say they are opposed to all forms of discrimination but that's not exactly true.
Free exercise rights exist "only to the extent that they do not unduly burden" bans on discrimination, the report says.
Secular and socially-liberal Americans are blasting the French burkini bans. Yet when it comes to spreading "tolerance" here, will we get the message?
Regulations target transgender access to restrooms in federal buildings and beds in homeless shelters.
Research shows that police do subject African Americans to much greater unwarranted scrutiny and harsher treatment
Facing pressure from the NBA, the bill would create sex reassignment certificates.
There's no way around the fact that anti-discrimination laws limit free association rights.
New guidelines also say pumping breast milk at work must be permitted and require "reasonable accommodations" for employees who have recently miscarried or aborted a pregnancy.
Flush this claim in the nearest men's, women's, or family restroom - along with stories of pervs being drawn to Target like flies shit.
Corporations influencing politics is awful for liberals, unless the influence benefits their political agenda.
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