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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
If I didn’t know better I would think that an establishment called The Hitching Post was more likely to be an old-time saloon than the newest front in the religious exemption wars. But that just goes…
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Religion Dispatches
The Hobby Lobby decision relied, to some extent, on the existence of a thing called “closely-held corporations”; only that’s not really a thing at all.
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Religion Dispatches
On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard arguments in Holt v. Hobbs, a case about whether a prisoner in Arkansas has the right to grow a ½-inch beard for religious reasons. The media commentary has…
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