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Kara Loewentheil

Kara Loewentheil is the Director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project and a Research Fellow at Columbia Law School. She has held academic and litigation fellowships at Yale Law School and the Center for Reproductive Rights, and from 2008 to 2010 she clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She regularly writes and speaks about religious accommodations and sexual and reproductive rights across the country.

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Religion Dispatches

Anti-Vaxxers Illustrate Danger of Overly Broad Religious Freedom Laws

In case you haven’t heard, the measles are back. In a big way. Cases of measles have been on the increase in the last few years, and this month an outbreak now reaching at least 94 patients has been…
Kara Loewentheil
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Religion Dispatches

Is Refusal to Write Anti-Gay Cake Message a Violation of Religious Freedom?

Denver, Colorado can feel like an alternate universe for a lot of reasons, but now we can add a new one to the list. Because in the first such case of which I’m aware, a bakery in Denver has been sued…
Kara Loewentheil
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Religion Dispatches

Muslim Beard Decision was a Boost for "Religious Liberty" Advocates

The Supreme Court issued its opinion in Holt on Tuesday, holding that prison regulations that prevented a Muslim inmate from growing a short beard for religious reasons violated the Religious Land Use…
Kara Loewentheil
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