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Austin Dacey

Austin Dacey is a contributing editor at Religion Dispatches and the author of The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights. He is currently a senior consultant to the Youth Free Expression Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship.

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Religion Dispatches

Corporate Personhood Was a Radical Notion... In the 11th Century

According to one common reaction to Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Court set a precedent in nonsense by supposing that a corporation—an artificial legal construct—could engage in an exercise of religion…
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Is “Religious Freedom” Impossible After Hobby Lobby?

Last week the Supreme Court succeeded in deciding a case that it said was too easy. The case, Holt v. Hobbs, was brought by an Arkansas inmate seeking an exemption from Arkansas Department of…
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At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

U.S. conservatives join forces with authoritarian regimes at the UN to resist LGBTQ rights
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