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Religion Dispatches
On Monday, in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, the Supreme Court relied heavily on “less restrictive alternatives” when it exempted closely-held corporations from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive…
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Religion Dispatches
What theological objection does Wheaton College, the Christian college that won a stay from the Supreme Court yesterday from having to even fill out a form to exempt itself from the contraceptive…
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Religion Dispatches
Since their founding in 1990, the Catholic priests at the International Association of Exorcists (IAE) have operated outside of the Roman Curia, lobbying the Vatican to take exorcism more seriously…
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Religion Dispatches
No, in July of 2014 we don’t face the urgent threat of an established church, but we do face an ongoing struggle with those abusing freedom of religion.
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Religion Dispatches
The Atlantic’s Molly Ball describes the letter from religious leaders to President Obama, requesting an exemption from his forthcoming executive order barring sexual orientation discrimination by…
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Religion Dispatches
Much has been written about the recent Hobby Lobby decision—how it’s a terrible precedent for corporations to be able to ignore laws because they claim a religious opposition, how the ruling will…
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Religion Dispatches
When I was a kid, I had a Magic 8 Ball. It was a maddening and fundamentally useless toy because while it supposedly had 20 answers, in reality it had only three: yes, no, and maybe. At this point…
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Religion Dispatches
Just one day after the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 14 faith leaders have written a letter to President Obama, asking him to include a religious exemption in his…
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Religion Dispatches
Mother Jones’ David Corn and Molly Redden report on the relationship between the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and the disgraced former leader of the Institute in Basic Life…
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Political Research Associates
Caroline Matas is a Postgraduate Research Associate in Religion in America at Princeton University. She studies contemporary American religious identity and media. She can be found tweeting…
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