Gay Marriage, Religious Rights, and Freedom of Association
(Re-post: originally posted November 23, 2008) California’s Proposition 8, the ballot measure aiming to outlaw same sex marriage, passed on a very close vote. Prop 8’s supporters* pushed a campaign of...
View ArticleACLJ Threatens Lawsuit Against Public School that Supports Muslim...
The following, unbelievable story is happening in America of all places! DEARBORN, MI This past fall, Emily Sanders enrolled her son Adam into Haigh Elementary School in Dearborn. Emily a devout...
View ArticleThe own goal of Okcupid
The ousting of Brendan Eich from his post as CEO of the Mozilla Foundation is seen by many as a blow against intolerance. It is in fact the opposite, and if gay rights groups expand such ‘outings’ as a...
View ArticleFreedom, Group Identification, and Consequences
To anyone trying to make the Cliven Bundy issue, or the Donald Sterling issue, or the Brendan Eich issue about freedom of speech… …PLEASE STOP… They are unrelated, and MOSTLY irrelevant, to free...
View ArticleHobby Lobby
Now, before you all lose your collective shit, I want to remind everyone of one critical fact: The Supreme Court doesn’t exist to make the morally right decision. I’m going to repeat that, blockquote...
View ArticleRant: People Who Don’t Link To Source Material
Earlier today, my new co-contributor Matt wrote about the ridiculous Houston city council subpoena on a group who was against the transgender bathroom-rights law. Where did the original story come...
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Idaho Pastors Threatened With Jail Time Over Refusal To Marry Gays
Opponents of gay marriage have consistently predicted that legalization of gay marriage would force churches to perform the ceremony. Supporters have said that this was highly unlikely, and not the...
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What American Christians Can Learn From A Muslim Woman Calling Out Her Own...
There’s a Facebook post that has gone viral of a Georgia woman, who is Muslim, essentially blasting her fellow Muslims for demanding a special increase in food stamp benefits to offset the higher cost...
View ArticleThat Idaho Gay Marriage Lawsuit? It Just Got Murky.
On Monday, I posted about the Idaho pastors who filed a lawsuit as Couer d’Alene’s anti-discrimination ordinance threatened them with large fines and possible jail time for a refusal to perform...
View ArticleIdaho Gay Marriage Lawsuit Moot – City Backs Down
I’ve covered the Idaho “Hitching Post” gay marriage case. I started with a relatively in-depth look at the legal issues involved on Monday, and then covered some inconsistencies in the history of the...
View ArticleLet Us Rediscover the Art of the Peaceful Protest and Civil Disobedience this...
In the year 2015 there are many good reasons to protest: police brutality, injustice, the war on (some) drugs, the war on (some) terror, etc. One thing from Martian Luther King Jr.’s legacy that seems...
View ArticleInstead Of Giving Gay Marriage Opponents Special Rights, Get Rid Of All...
The Alabama House passed a bill on Thursday that allows judges to refuse to perform gay marriages. It passed after a four-hour debate by a vote of 69-25. More “religious protection” bills are on the...
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Conservative Blogger Advocates Religious Oppression in America
Not much shocks me anymore but once in a while, I run across something that is so idiotic I wonder if there some sort of serious glitch in the matrix. It wasn’t but a few weeks ago that conservatives...
View ArticleIn the Wake of Obergefell v. Hodges: Gay Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the...
[Photo: Church of the Pilgrims, a Presbyterian USA Church in Washington DC, via Wikimedia Commons.] On Friday, June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court held in Obergefell v. Hodges that under the Fourteenth...
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Libertarians Debate on Stossel (Part 1 of 2)
In case you missed it, the first half of the Libertarian Party Presidential Debate aired on Stossel on April 1st (the second half will air on Friday, April 8, 2016). The three participants were 2012...
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