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28 Jun 2015, 6:40 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
” Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, declared that the finding “will have wide-ranging and perilous consequences for the stability of families and for freedom of religion. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 1:35 am by Adam Wagner
Fred Phelps, who founded the church, and six Westboro Baptist parishioners picketed the funeral of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in the line of duty. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 2:47 pm by Brian Clarke
  In their view, the best way to ensure freedom for ALL citizens was to ensure that the beliefs of the majority could not limit the freedom of the minority. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 3:04 pm by Daniel Solove
Snyder involves tort claims against Fred Phelps, pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, and others arising out of the practice of Church members to picket the funerals of U.S. soldiers. [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 5:44 pm by Alfred Brophy
 Nat's father even -- Foster supposes -- made him a trustee of the Turner Baptist Church. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
I remember being outraged when the Supreme Court upheld the property tax exemption for churches in Walz v. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The lobbyists for the Catholic Church, Baptists, Orthodox Jews, Boy Scouts, chambers of commerce, teachers’ unions, insurance lobbyists, and even the ACLU mobilized and pushed back. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 3:45 am by Russ Bensing
  The first concerns Fred Phelps, the evil little fuck who founded the Westboro Baptist Church, which makes it a point to show up at military funerals with signs claiming that the deceased soldier is a “fag,” and his death the result of God’s hatred of homosexuals. [read post]
3 May 2019, 6:30 am by Jason M. Cover
Frederick Douglass Haynes, III, Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 3:45 am by Russ Bensing
Phelps, the court handed down a widely-anticipated result, that the First Amendment protected the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, whose belief system leads them to the lunatic conclusion that God is punishing America because of its tolerance of homosexuals, which results in them picketing the funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan with signs proclaiming that “God Hates Fags. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 8:56 am by Brian Cuban
When I confronted the Westboro Baptist Church during one of their visits to Dallas, I argued with the police for their right to be on a public sidewalk in front of a hotel when the hotel was trying to move them to the other side of the street. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 4:59 am
"Since 1996, the Redneck Shop has operated in an old movie theater that, according to court records, was transferred in 1997 to Kennedy and the Baptist church he leads. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 2:35 pm by Mark Walsh
Little Sisters of the Poor in the Supreme Court cafeteria (Art Lien) All three are the leaders of church-affiliated entities that are involved in today’s case, Zubik v. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 9:59 am by John Culhane
Yesterday’s infuriating opinion by SCOTUS in the Westboro Baptist Church case (Snyder v. [read post]
7 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
For example, the Catholic Church can exclude women from the priesthood and the Southern Baptist Convention can exclude LGBTQ and women from being pastors. [read post]
10 May 2022, 9:02 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
As explained here, there was a time when even Baptists did not oppose abortion in all circumstances. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 1:57 pm by Elin Hofverberg
He seized all the holdings of the Catholic Church, created a Protestant State Church and by law made himself its head. [read post]