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10 Jun 2015, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Baptist Press reported yesterday:The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have published "Protecting Your Ministry," a legal manual for Southern Baptist churches, schools and ministries. [read post]
19 May 2015, 1:44 pm by Ken White
" Trope Two: "Like shouting fire in a crowded theater" Example: " There is no freedom to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 1:08 pm by Amy Howe
In the past few years, the Roberts Court has been very supportive of the freedom of speech, ruling in favor of protests by the Westboro Baptist Church at a soldier’s funeral, violent video games for children, videos depicting dog-fighting, and lies about receiving prestigious military medals. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 5:30 pm by Sam Machkovech
As a child, I was baptized in a Baptist church, and faith has always been an important part of my life. [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 6:27 am
Even horribly offensive, racist speech is protected by the First Amendment generally (sometimes the First Amendment yields uncomfortable results - the Westboro Baptist church has a right to picket funerals with signs like "Fags Doom Nations").Strangely (especially for a Harvard law professor), Feldman never tells us what a "hostile educational environment" really is. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 1:03 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 1952, Abernathy became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 6:28 pm
It's always a rich and rewarding experience when I can take a brief break from the day-to-day demands of our struggle for freedom and human dignity and discuss the issues involved in that struggle with college and university students and concerned people of goodwill all over our nation and over the world. [read post]
14 Dec 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
 Included in these sites are properties in Flushing, New York relating to the history of religious freedom during the era of the signing of the Flushing Remonstrance; and Atlanta's West Hunter Street Baptist Church (background).The Act as passed does not include provisions in an earlier House version relating to military chaplains and religious expression. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 2:03 pm
The near-funeral picketing case was labeled as involving a “conservative” speaker/speech, presumably because the Westboro Baptist Church was opposed to homosexuality — but the church was picketing the funeral of a straight soldier, with placards saying (among other things) “God Hates the USA/Thank God for 9/11” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers”; it’s hard to see this sort of absurdity as either conservative or liberal. [read post]
’Tis the season to begin looking carefully at the Supreme Court’s 2014–2015 docket, now that the Justices have returned from their summer recess and are hearing cases again. [read post]
6 Sep 2014, 12:16 am by Helene L. Taylor, Esq.
She also is the granddaughter of a Southern Baptist minister and pursued a M.Div. from Yale. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 6:12 am
This exchange between Robert Williams, a gruff working-class leader, and Martin Luther King Jr., a prince of the black Baptist church who was rapidly rising to national prominence as a civil rights leader, forecast the political and class tensions that would be increasingly significant inside the southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 6:01 am by Maya Angenot
Phelps began in 2006, when seven members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral of Matthew Snyder, a marine who had died in the Iraq War. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 4:32 am
And beyond this, “the free exercise [of religion]” can’t mean freedom to do whatever your religion commands. [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
The reviewer calls the book"an important contribution to the growing literature on religious freedom and separation of church and state in the colonial era and early republic. [read post]