The Supreme Court’s 7-2 ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case is a narrow win for Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who declined to create a custom cake for a wedding between two men. Although this case was litigated for years as a free-speech case, the justices instead found a way to decide the case on very narrow …
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The ruling will likely be interpreted by lower courts, which are currently being stacked with Trump appointees. Legal analysts have rightly noted that Monday’s Supreme Court ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commissionwas narrow — though that’s not a reference to the 7-2 count (with Justices Breyer and Kagan joining the Court’s five Republican …
In one of the most anticipated Supreme Court rulings of the year, involving the question of whether an anti-gay baker has to bake a cake for a gay wedding, the court today decided to punt. While you’ll probably see a lot of headlines proclaiming “Christian Baker Wins At Supreme Court!”, in fact the justices decided not …
The religious right didn’t get the Supreme Court victory it hoped for. Yet. Read More »
Preacher Jesse Duplantis may have thought his request for a brand new $54 million private jet would just be seen by his gullible followers, but once the internet found out, there was no stopping the coverage. Everyone wanted to chime in on the Christian televangelist who already owns a private jet, but wanted a new one to avoid the pesky problem of stopping …
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A federal court has ruled that printing “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency doesn’t amount to a religious endorsement and therefore doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reports the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago made the ruling Thursday in a lawsuit brought by a self-declared Satanist, Kenneth …
"In God We Trust" on money isn’t religious endorsement, federal court rules Read More »
Conversion therapy aims to change an LGBT person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Now the controversial practice is being regulated in many states. A Supreme Court ruling sanctioning same-sex marriage in 2015 was hailed as a milestone moment that would see discrimination crumble and equality triumph for LGBT couples — and for their children. But in the past three …
3 years after same-sex marriage ruling, protections for LGBT families undermined Read More »
The Supreme Court ruled Monday for a Colorado baker who wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in a limited decision that leaves for another day the larger issue of whether a business can invoke religious objections to refuse service to gay and lesbian people. The justices’ decision turned on what the court …
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The epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church. Rachael Denhollander’s college-aged abuser began grooming her when she was 7. Each week, as Denhollander left Sunday school at Westwood Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Mich., he was there to walk her to her parents’ Bible-study classroom on the other side of the building. He …
I am now one of two plaintiffs in a lawsuit we filed yesterday in the U.S. Court for the Western District of Michigan. That suit seeks to force the state of Michigan to allow humanist secular celebrants like me (certified and everything) to officiate and solemnize weddings for those who want sch an officiant. This …
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Wendy Vitter is the kind of judicial nominee anti-abortion campaigners banked on when they cast a vote for Trump. She’s a former prosecutor and general counsel for the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans who lobbied against abortion access, cheered laws which make abortion “difficult”, and believes abortions hurt women. Vitter has insisted she could keep …
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