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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

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

Please, for the love of the primordial, preliterate covenant of sound: leave George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” alone.
Austin Dacey
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Religion Dispatches

‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists

A state that attempts to use the force of law to stop blasphemy must select certain identities for protection to the exclusion of others.
Austin Dacey
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Religion Dispatches

There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

The religious are free, but not because they enjoy religious freedom. They are free insofar as all are free. In a liberal society, we all inhabit an equal space of personal and associative liberty in which to worship, blaspheme, or just fix our suppers.
Austin Dacey
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