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Wedding invitation designers appeal ruling requiring them to serve sames-sex couples

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A conservative legal group representing two local wedding invitation designers isn’t ready to give up on overturning a Phoenix law that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination On Monday, Alliance Defending Freedom appealed a June Arizona Court of Appeals ruling that affirmed the constitutionality of the Phoenix law. Scottsdale-based Alliance Defending Freedom represents Brush & Nib Studio, owned …

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A Judge Has Ruled Against Atheists Trying to Put Up the Least Offensive Ad Ever

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A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that a government agency had every right to reject an atheist advertisement, putting a temporary end to a saga that’s dragged on for more than six years. In 2012, atheist Justin Vacula and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Freethought Society attempted to place the following ad on buses in the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS). …

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How Kavanaugh will use religion to turn back the clock

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It’s a polite fiction that religion isn’t a factor in the American legal system. But religion plays an outsize role, both in judicial decisions and in the decisions of presidents in nominating a judge. President Donald Trump’s latest pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh — a Catholic, whose appointment preserves the Catholic majority …

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Center For Inquiry Sues CVS for Defrauding Customers With Homeopathic “Medicine”

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The Center For Inquiry has filed a lawsuit against CVS Health Corporation (which includes its nearly 10,000 pharmacies) for promoting and selling homeopathic remedies. CVS is deceiving customers, CFI says, “through its misrepresentation of homeopathy’s safety and effectiveness, wasting customers’ money and putting their health at risk.” Homeopathy is, of course the sham treatment that takes a trace amount …

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A religious Oregon couple didn’t believe in medical care. After newborn’s death, they’re headed to prison.

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The deputy medical examiner knew before knocking on the door. There was a grim scene waiting for Eric Tonsfeldt inside the single-story house set among the pine trees outside of Oregon City, Ore. — a tragedy that had played out there before. It was around 8:45 on March 5, 2017, and the Clackamas County official was responding …

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Here’s What Church/State Groups Are Saying About SCOTUS Pick Brett Kavanaugh

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With the announcement of Brett Kavanaugh as Donald Trump‘s nominee to the Supreme Court, atheist and church/state separation groups are weighing in on what his confirmation would mean. Larry T. Decker, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America: The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court reveals that President Trump prioritizes the political ambitions of the religious …

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Brett Kavanaugh is nominated by Trump to succeed Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

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President Trump on Monday nominated federal judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, elevating a conservative stalwart with deep ties to the Republican establishment to succeed retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and triggering a partisan war over the court’s future. Kavanaugh, 53, who lives in the Maryland suburbs, serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals …

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The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

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A Catholic fundamentalist who controls a network of right-wing groups funded by dark money has put three justices on the court. He’s about to get a fourth. When President Donald Trump nominates a justice to the Supreme Court on Monday night, he will be carrying out the agenda of a small, secretive network of extremely …

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Protesters gather outside Ark Encounter for two-year anniversary

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On Saturday the Ark Encounter celebrated its two-year anniversary. As hundreds of people made their way inside to visit the Ark, just outside the entrance, around 150 protesters gathered for a rally and march. Saturday’s protest was put on by the Tri-State Freethinkers. Jim Helton is one of the co-founders of the group. “Our goal …

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