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What Does Religious Freedom Day Really Mean?
January 16th is National Religious Freedom Day. The day commemorates the Virginia General Assembly’s adoption of Thomas Jefferson’s landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786....
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Another Example Of Illegal Religious Bigotry In A Public School
On Monday July 16th, JT Eberhard, campus organizer and high school specialist for the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), posted about a letter SSA had received where an uninformed teacher had gloated...
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Happy International Blasphemy Rights Day
Protests by Malaysia Muslims over Innocence Of Muslims film September 2012 September 30th is designated as International Blasphemy Rights Day. This is when we bring awareness to efforts to censor...
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A Religious Downside To Citizens United
Citizens United was a US Supreme Court decision in 2010 that said corporations had free speech rights like individuals. On Friday, 12/28, judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh...
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Yes, Attempt To Recruit Christian Workers Violates State And Federal Law
The director of operations of a Subway franchisee, in West Virginia, sent letters to several churches and congregations saying his company was “in need of Christian employees.” I’m sure some people...
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Indiana Ends Fair And Equal Treatment
I was going to write a long winded post about the ‘Religious Freedom’ law signed by Indiana’s Governor Mike Pence today but I decided Brandan Robertson, on his blog Revangelical, made the kind of point...
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Why Do Religious Freedom Restoration Acts Open The Door To Discrimination?
Indiana Governor Mike Pence trying to put lipstick on a pig In a previous post, I used the title ‘Indiana Ends Fair And Equal Treatment‘ in response to Governor Pence signing a Religious Freedom...
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The Majority Doesn’t Need Their Religious Freedom Restored
Indiana and Arkansas have changed their state Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRA) to make it more explicit that it not be used by businesses to discriminate against LGBTs or others of different...
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Finally, The ACLU Turns Against The RFRA
During the recent firestorm over state Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRA) like those passed by Indiana and the use of them to discriminate against LGBT people, one of my conservative friends...
View ArticleOhio AG Yost Takes A Friday News Dump On The LGBTQA Community
Typically when elected people want to tell you bad news but don’t want to have to deal with it publicly, they will say the bad news on a Friday when the news media won’t spend much time on it since the...
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