Supreme Court Declines To Consider Whether a Bed and Breakfast Can Discriminate Against Gay Couples
A state-level decision against the property owner shows the limits of the Supreme Court's wedding cake ruling.
A state-level decision against the property owner shows the limits of the Supreme Court's wedding cake ruling.
But is it actually even needed?
The justices were wrong to reject a religious discrimination claim in a case where a person sentenced to death was not allowed access to a Muslim cleric at the moment of death. But the decision was not the result of anti-Muslim bigotry.
The city defines nudity as showing nipple, but only if you're a woman.
Shahid Shafi identifies as a Republican because he believes in small government.
Asians sue Harvard for discrimination in a case that may end college racial preferences.
Is he rejecting a customer or rejecting a message? The difference matters.
Living constitutionalists argue that their methodology allows us to improve constitutional law over time. But what if it actually makes it worse? Legal scholar Ernest Young raises that very question in an important new article.
Justices are being asked yet again to argue about wedding cakes and whether the Civil Rights Act covers discrimination against gay and transgender people.
The most sensible and effective way to police private college admissions practices isn't litigation or regulation, but competition.
No, a baker cannot be compelled to "support gay marriage" with frosting.
A ban on gay sex dated back to 1861, when India was ruled by the British.
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.
The feds hound Facebook for ads that allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act.
Former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano is accused of arrested black men for burglaries to boost the department's image.
Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris proposes a ban to loosen company policies on neckties.
We pride ourselves on having abolished the hereditary privileges once associated with aristocracy. But our citizenship system replicates many of the same evils.
Let's get behind economic freedom for everyone, even when we don't like how they use it.
Her money is green, and you can talk to her while she's chowing down.
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.
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