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Religious Freedom Tables Turned As Synagogue Sues Over Florida’s Abortion Ban
A South Florida Synagogue has sued over Gov. DeSantis’ new 15 week abortion ban because it violates their religious freedom.
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Joe Biden Has Placed Fierce Trump Critic Khizr Khan on His U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
There were many memorable moments during both the 2016 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. But during the Democratic event, one moment in particular stood out. After months of Trump race baiting his supporters, a Muslim man named Khizr Khan was asked to speak at the event. Khan was a gold star parent as his son,…
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Here’s Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Executive Order Is Set Up To Fail
It’s conceivable that Trump is hoping his boy Gorsuch will welcome the opportunity to expand corporate “religious freedom” to all corporations, whether said religious views are sincerely held, or merely more profitable. But if we go with the existing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, this element of the Executive Order will fail.
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People For the American Way Stands Up For The Constitution In Supreme Court Brief
This is the America that Trump is trying to normalize, an America where there is a hierarchy of rights based on who you are or how you pray.
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Montana Lawmakers Write Letter to Condemn Attacks on Religious Freedom by Anti-Semites
White nationalism and anti-Semitism have become growing problems not only around the world but in the United States, and particular focus has been drawn to the movement, calling itself the “alt-right” because of it’s support for Donald Trump. In Montana, prominent Nazi Richard Spencer’s mother, who owns a business in Whitefish, Montana, has been getting…
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With One Pen Stroke President Obama Protects Non-Believers from Religious Republicans
Freedom of religion isn’t just about the right to practice religion. It’s about the right to have your own views about religion including being agnostic and atheistic.
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Trump’s Act of War On The First Amendment
The combination of Trump’s bans on Muslism and Media outlets are just beginning. Trump’s actions and policies proposes present a direct attack several core constitutional principles envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
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Muslim Women Are Set on Fire and Assaulted For Being Muslims
It is time for the mayor and the NYPD to put forward the necessary resources to investigate and prevent these attacks on the Muslim community.
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The Endless War on Terror: Remembering 9/11 and Knowing Our Neighbors
In the midst of our tributes to the first responders of then and now, in our gratefulness for those who serve in our nation’s military and for those who have given their lives in this service, and in our hope for tomorrow, can we also make room again to ponder the call to welcome the world’s exhausted, suffering, homeless ones for whom this nation’s welcome light shines?
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Judge Decimates the GOP’s Religious Freedom Concept – Strikes Down Mississippi Law
Judge Reeves noted that “the title, history and text of the law showed it to be the State’s attempt to put LGBT citizens in their place.”
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Mississippi Interracial Couple Evicted For Being In An Interracial Marriage
‘You didn’t tell me you was married to no black man. It’s a big problem with my church and my community. They don’t allow that.’
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President Obama’s Brilliant Religious Freedom Speech Lost On Religious Republicans
Some may argue that evangelicals lack any humanity, because if they did they would not be driven by inhumanity toward anything not Christian
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Republican Fail: Evangelical Bigots Did Not Counter President Obama’s SOTU
It is an abomination that an avowed religious bigot like Kim Davis was invited as a protest and counterweight to President Obama’s message
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Please Do Tell, Benham Brothers, Why We Liberals Hate Christmas
The Benham brothers don’t experience reality like the rest of us, so their explanation of why we liberals hate Christmas is rather bizarre
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Republicans Can Learn What Religious Freedom Means from Muslims
Islamic nations are adamant in protecting the rights of all religions within their borders as an important adherence to their Islamic faith
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Right Wing “Freedom” Seminar Says God At War With Fans of Disney’s “Frozen”
“Let it Go” is “Satan’s rebellion anthem.” Fans are “rejecting God’s law,” become “enemies of God” and God “does go to war against you.”
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Clinton Impeachment Attorney Ken Starr Isn’t Jumping Up to Support Kim Davis
Ken Starr dished out some reality to a religious freed summit audience, cautioning them that choosing which laws to obey is problematic
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Kansas Secretary of State Fires State Employee For Not Attending Church
A former Kansas state employee has filed a federal wrongful termination lawsuit targeting Kansas’ Secretary of State and assistant secretary of state, Eric Rucker. The lawsuit alleges that the employee’s dismissal was founded on her refusal to attend bible and prayer services in Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office.
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Breaking News To Evangelicals: God’s Law Does Not Supersede the U.S. Constitution
It may come as a shock to Kim Davis that in America there is no higher authority than the Constitution, no matter that she believes
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7-Year-Old Banished Student Feels Wrath Of Evangelical’s Religious Freedom
In February of this year, a seven-year-old 2nd grade student in Indiana was “banished” from having any contact with other students because his teacher, a playground supervisor, and a school administrator concluded that the child’s “bad ideas” persecuted (offended) another student.
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Appeals Court Thwarts Evangelical Pharmacists’ Objections To Filling Prescriptions
The ruling and the assertion that a religious fanatic is treated the same as a secular person will not sit well with theocrats.
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Mike Huckabee Vows To Resist Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling With Executive Orders
Huckabee declared that he would sign executive orders protecting businesses and churches who oppose gay marriage.
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The Romans Had Them, but There are no Republican Edicts of Toleration
Compare this list of Roman edicts of toleration to a current Republican list – oh wait, there isn’t one
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Religious Freedom Law Endangered The Health of a Georgia Woman
This week a story in Georgia illustrates just how dangerous religious tyranny posing as religious freedom can be to the health of women.
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Bob Vander Plaats Says Exercising First Amendment Rights Mocks God
Yes, actually exercising your First Amendment right to have your own beliefs is a “huge concern” with “spiritual ramifications” in Iowa
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Iowa FAMiLY LEADER Event Showcases Presidential Hopefuls’ Religious Bigotry
Crass ignorance is enshrined in the Iowa Calendar as Family Leader invites GOP presidential hopefuls to spew to the delight of the base
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Republicans In Turmoil After Asa Hutchinson Caves On Arkansas Religious Freedom Bill
The Republican Party is falling apart, and factions are at each other’s throats over the self-inflicted wound of pushing religious freedom bills that would legalize discrimination.
Hobby Lobby Ruling Opened Floodgates For Indiana Discrimination Law
Americans are witnessing the profound and dangerous impact of the High Court’s Hobby Lobby decision to dismantle the 1st Amendment’s religious clauses and exempt religious devotee’s from adhering to state and federal laws.
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Catholics Claim Religious Liberty To Refuse Compensating Sex Abuse Victims
In an ironic twist, as a result of Catholic Justices on the nation’s highest court, for the second time in six months high-ranking Catholics are exercising religious supremacy over the nation’s judicial system.
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Bill O’Reilly’s Call for Holy War Just Articulates What the Right Has Been Doing All Along
We’ve been victims of holy war for decades. This just turns attention from our own women, children and poor to Muslim women, children and poor
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Michigan License To Discriminate A Portent Of Impending Theocracy
It is astonishing, but the extremist Christian fundamentalists are basing their punitive power on the religious freedom guarantee in the First Amendment; with Supreme Court approval.
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Airman Ordered to Swear a Religious Oath or Get Out of the Air Force
The United States Air Force, itself sworn to “support and defend the Constitution,” cannot abide by, support, or defend either the First Amendment or Article VI and rejected an atheist airman’s attempt to reenlist to serve and defend his country unless he swears a religious oath.
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Christian Conservatives Are Trying To Use Hobby Lobby To Discriminate Against Gays
Maybe the President regrets intertwining government and religion when he continued George W. Bush’s Faith-Based initiatives. Now they are using their connection to the White House to exact recompense in the form of permission to discriminate against the gay community according to their “deeply-held religious beliefs” the Supreme Court cited mercilessly in its ruling for Hobby Lobby.
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The Hobby Lobby Ruling Is Trojan Horse For All Businesses and Corporations
The Trojan Horse in the Hobby Lobby ruling is a term, closely held corporation, that created an opening for nearly all businesses to use the new corporate religious freedom exemption with impunity.
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It Is Time For Constitution Loving Americans To Stand Up To Right Wing Republicans
Americans who value their freedoms, religious or otherwise, would do well to avoid the pitfalls of staying silent for fear of offending extremists because that silence has produced precisely what is plaguing this nation.
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Diplomacy First: Obama Lays Out the Path to a More Peaceful World
President Obama used the National Prayer Day breakfast this morning to tout the importance of religious freedom and tolerance for all religions.
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Mike Huckabee Defends Phil Robertson With a Paranoid Rant Against Militant Homosexuals
What Huckabee and the religious right object to is losing what they consider religious freedom to impose their rules on the rest of the population.
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Coach Dave Daubenmire Says Anti-Bullying Efforts Bully Christians
“When someone says something their conscience tells them to say and everyone rises up against them, then we see that majority begin to bully the minority.”
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Rick Warren Cancels Candidate-less Candidate Forum and Lies About Why
Warren says he canceled his planned forum with Obama and Romney because of incivility but the real reason was neither man was interested
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The Case against Using Religious Freedom to Block Birth Control Access
As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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American Women are Under Assault from Christian Republicans
The past two years should give all Americans pause at what conservative Christians in control of the government would mean for women.
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The GOP’s Wacky One-Way Religious Freedom (We Got it, You Don’t)
Conservative Christians love to talk about religious freedom, never quite getting that something isn’t freedom unless everyone enjoys it
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‘Religious Freedom’ Measure Targeting Women’s Reproductive Rights Goes Down in Flames
While Republicans pass alleged ‘religious freedom’ laws aimed at knocking down women’s reproductive rights across the country, at least one has gone down in flames.
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Religious Bigots Gather at National Religious Freedom Conference
Religious Freedom: a euphemism used by Christian groups who embrace subordination and a culture of suppression of other religious viewpoints
The USCCB Decides To Go To War Against The American Government
The USCCB is in a war with the American government to assert their authority as Onward Christian Soldiers over legally elected representatives of the people.
The Grim Calculus of Rights of Conscience
The grim calculus of conservatism’s so-called rights of conscience is this: I don’t believe so you can’t… Their religious freedoms are your slave chains.
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The War On Religion Taken To Its Most Logical And Absurd Extremes
If Republicans want religious legislation to run this country, do it right. Only cover health-related matters that do not violate the 10 Commandments.
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Ralph Reed Seeks Resurrection as Republican Kingmaker
While so many Republicans rush toward self-martyrdom, one, Ralph Reed, is headed in the other direction – toward resurrection in 2012
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The U.S. Army – Instrument of Holy War
The Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program makes an unconstitutional requirement of spiritual fitness for American soldiers as well as physical fitness.