discrimination/religious freedom

Court guarantees equality, not roses.

Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the “ State of Religious Liberty in America.” What was perhaps most striking about the hearing was how dated many of the speeches and…

No wonder Americans are so unhappy—we have made a virtue of denying ourselves integrity in favor of psycho-somatic division.

For the past week or so, the National Review’s Alexandra Desanctis and I have been debating some of the finer points of both “religious freedom” and religious freedom. On Monday she published a…

President Trump’s controversial travel ban is “religiously gerrymandered to target Muslims,” says ACLU senior staff attorney Heather Weaver.

It is true there is no federal or state law that says “it’s OK to turn away the gays if God said you could,” but there’s also no federal law protecting LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace, in housing, in healthcare, or in public accommodations.

Tearing a page from the “religious liberty” playbook, the ACLU contends that Trump’s travel ban violates core constitutional principles—and, crucially, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Like many liberals since the election, I have been swinging between absolute terror and despair and bits of hopefulness among the flames.

Despite reports (from unnamed sources) suggesting otherwise, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are not the secret ingredient to upholding LGBT rights under a Trump-Pence administration. Reports had been…

Americans United for Separation Church and State has some serious concerns about how a Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch might dismantle that constitutional wall.