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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…

If the announcement that the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement (CCR) makes you feel like you’re experiencing deja vu, you…

Mike Huckabee has joined the ranks of those invoking Martin Luther King Jr. to legitimate civil disobedience in response to the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same sex marriage. As the former…

Reactions from conservatives (and those courting their votes) range from angry to apoplectic. With a strong dose of the ridiculous.

Religious exemptions have allowed employers to discriminate based on faith—slippery slope would be an understatement.

For a millennium the church had no “coherent or obligatory liturgical tradition” regarding marriage.

In late March The Washington Post published a peculiar ad from the American Family Association (AFA) addressing the U.S. Supreme Court, which will soon issue a ruling on the constitutionality of same…

When speaking to religious audiences, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker likes to remind people that he goes to church and knows his Bible. These reminders frequently come as Walker seeks to distinguish…

My previous post on corporate personhood ended by asking for a principled reason why we should protect the “religious freedom” of religiously-affiliated nonprofit corporations such as Wheaton College…

Last week the Supreme Court succeeded in deciding a case that it said was too easy. The case, Holt v. Hobbs, was brought by an Arkansas inmate seeking an exemption from Arkansas Department of…