Thinking About Liberty0

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• July 1, 2016

An analysis of the vision of religious freedom put forward by American philosopher and author Martha Nussbaum.

The Judicial Revolt of Roy Moore0

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• June 29, 2015

Roy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has had run-ins with the federal judiciary before, but never with the Supreme Court of the United States. That changed in February, when the High Court, without explanation, refused to halt the wave of same-sex weddings about to overtake Alabama after a federal judge and

Power in Prayer0

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• November 1, 2014

The battle for religious liberty is fought perhaps more often in the quiet corners than on the grand stage. No one knows this better than Pastor Eliezer Benavides, associate director of the Church State Council, who began handling primarily Sabbath accommodation cases for the Church State Council in 2006. At 87 years old, Pastor Benavides,

The Mighty Walk20

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• July 22, 2013

When Speech Becomes Dangerous0

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• May 1, 2008

Seven years jail for gay hate preachers" announced Britain's Telegraph newspaper on October 9, 2007, reporting government plans to introduce new hate speech legislation to the U.K. Parliament.1 This follows on from new "religious hatred" legislation, already passed, that became law a week previous. One response to this new proposal came from an intriguing source—the

A Matter of Standing0

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• May 1, 2008

A sharply divided Supreme Court in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation held that President Bush's faith-based initiatives could not be challenged in federal court as a prohibited state establishment of religion. Hein said nothing about the merits of the underlying challenge, but relied instead on the constitutional rule that denies taxpayers "standing" to sue.