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Religious Freedom May Now Include Discrimination Against Jews and Muslims

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As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services faces harsh criticism for its proposed policy to redefine “sex,” another memo sits on the desk of HHS Secretary Alex Azar, one that would allow South Carolina child welfare agency Miracle Hill Ministries to affirmatively discriminate on the basis of religion while receiving state and federal …

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Ireland to vote in referendum on ‘largely obsolete’ blasphemy law

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Irish voters head to the polls Friday where they will be asked to vote on removing the offense of blasphemy from the constitution. The referendum on blasphemy is the most recent in a series of referendums poised to reflect the nation’s continued trajectory into a secular, diverse society. The referendum, which takes place on the …

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Attendance collapses at Creationist Ark museum after Kentucky taxpayers spent millions building theme park

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Despite receiving millions in taxpayer subsidies, attendance at the Ark Encounter museum in Kentucky continues to collapse as the Creationist theme park looks for new ways to keep from sinking. […] The entertainment and educational complex that features dinosaurs interacting with humans, saw attendance this past September drop to 69,207 paying visitors — a 17 …

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Atheist Group Calls for Arkansas Razorbacks Coaches to Stop Praying with Players

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Here’s some life advice for Christian athletes and coaches everywhere. If your public university is breaking the law by letting coaches praying with athletes on the field, don’t brag about it online. Julian B. Griffin, the Offensive Quality Control coach at the University of Arkansas, tweeted this picture of Associate Head Coach Jeff Traylor praying …

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Anti-gay lawyers just showed up in the Supreme Court with a big ask for Brett Kavanaugh

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A team of conservative lawyers filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday, effectively asking the Court to allow religious conservatives to discriminate against same-sex couples. This latest case, Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, presents many of the same issues that arose last term in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights …

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Why faith leaders and the federal government will be in court this week defending the tax code

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The Rev. Tuesday Jane Rupp’s new job came with an interesting perk: an invitation to live in an 181-year-old house. Like many faith communities, her new employer, Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Woodbury, Connecticut, owns a parsonage and offers it to rectors as part of their compensation package. [….] Housing benefits help ensure clergy members …

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Can a Christian foster care group reject non-Christians? The Trump administration may say yes.

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The Trump administration is considering a request from a faith-based foster care agency to continue denying non-Christian parents from fostering children, the Intercept reported Friday. The case centers around a South Carolina Christian organization, Miracle Hill Ministries, which claims that under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), they are not obligated to place children …

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‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration

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The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law. A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept of gender …

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Trump administration to strengthen religious liberty rules on birth control, LGBTQ discrimination

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The Trump administration is planning to double down on “religious liberty” protections that could affect birth control access and allow for LGBTQ employment discrimination. Planned rules would strengthen or expand existing religious liberty protections for employers to deny health care access or make hiring decisions based on their religious beliefs and “moral convictions.” The potential …

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GOP Rushes to Confirm Enemy of Church/State Separation to Appellate Court

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Allison Jones Rushing could soon have a lifetime appointment to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. One of the four senators around to question her, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), said in his opening remarks to Rushing, “I’m very impressed with you.” But a number of church/state separation groups are condemning her nomination specifically. In a …

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