discrimination/religious freedom

As I predicted after the first two lawsuits were filed against Mississippi’s House Bill 1523, a third suit now claims that the state’s outrageous new religious liberty law violates the First Amendment…

If you’ve seen any news headline on Bangladesh in Western media over the past 15 months, odds are strong the headline included the phrase “hacked to death”: Writer hacked to death outside a book fair…

On May 12, the conservative advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom introduced the newest Christian martyrs in the fight over LGBT anti-discrimination laws: Breanna Koski and Joanna Duka, the two…

In the United States, who defines religious freedom? The First Amendment? The courts? The legislature? Religious groups and individuals themselves? What happens when it’s both, and the lines get…

Let the backlash begin. The arguments against President Obama’s historic directive that public schools allow trans students to use the bathroom of their choice has met with the expected opposition…

Two Democratic congressmen this week introduced the “Do No Harm Act,” a proposed amendment to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the once bipartisan law that’s now at the center of the…

Is it the habits? The crosses? What is it about the Little Sisters of the Poor that seems to have the power to cloud the mind of the Supreme Court? If you substituted any other word for “contraception…

The Mississippi “religious liberty” law that will soon allow public officials to refuse service to same-sex couples and transgender individuals was hit with two legal challenges last week, one by the…

North Carolina’s HB2 (also known as the “bathroom bill”) may not explicitly be about religious freedom , but nearly all of its vocal supporters are conservative Christians who seem to have a hard time…

Is it possible to coerce someone to pray? Is it still coercion if you say please? If you ask Peter Bormuth, who is trying to sue the County of Jackson, Michigan for coercing religious participation at…