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22 Jul 2010, 9:03 pm by INFORRM
  This began after the Westboro Baptist Church organized a protest at the funeral of U.S. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 7:51 pm by Michael Ginsborg
Bob Egelko of the San Francisco Chronicle reports a favorable response from a spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention of California. [read post]
30 Oct 2013, 2:20 pm by LindaMBeale
  Yet in spite of this long tradition of separation of church and state, our tax code and many of our politicians, many religionists, and too many of our Supreme Court's interpretations of the constitutional right to religious freedom blur the line between church and state. [read post]
30 Apr 2011, 8:25 am by INFORRM
The case arose out of the activities of the Westboro Baptist church headed by Fred Phelps which is well known to picket military funerals and other events while brandishing signs with the words “God hates fags” and “Thank God for dead soldiers,” among other statements. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 2:06 am by rhapsodyinbooks
You can read the words here, or watch it for yourself, on this video: Afternote: On Sunday, September 15, 1963, presumably in response to King’s speech, Klansmen set off a bomb in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, instantly killing four little girls between the ages of 11 and 14. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 6:56 am by Danny Jacobs
The fact that the Westboro Baptist Church takes shelter from liability for its indecent conduct behind the very Constitutional freedoms which Lance Corporal Snyder died in defense of is doubly insulting. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 10:28 am by Kiera Flynn
”  Catholic News Agency, Baptist Press News, and Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal all have coverage. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 8:02 am
He is challenging the constitutionality of the law, claiming it violates his religious freedom. [read post]
17 Nov 2007, 3:12 pm
One of Grassley's targets, Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., calls Grassley's letter an attack on religious freedom and privacy rights. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 10:43 am by Tom Smith
”What does it mean, if anything, that King was listening to bel-canto opera as he made his historic journey to preach his first sermon at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church? [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]
28 Feb 2014, 11:26 am by Susan Schneider
 He is a graduate of Riverside High School and a lifelong member of Refuge General Baptist Church in Lake City. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 12:08 pm by nflatow
Kennedy consulted Murray as he prepared his famous 1960 campaign address to Houston Baptist ministers pledging his commitment to the separation of church and state. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 4:45 am by INFORRM
The case concerns Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for protesting at military funerals with its “God Hates Fags” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” signs. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 6:39 am by Howard Friedman
 Americans United announced yesterday that it had filed a formal complaint (full text) with the Internal Revenue Service over the activities of pastor Brad Brandon of Hastings' Berean Bible Baptist Church. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 12:00 am
Inazu advances his argument in an amicus brief filed on behalf of a broad coalition of religious groups including the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Christian Legal Society, National Association of Evangelicals, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Christian Medical Association, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, Lutheran… [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 4:05 pm by INFORRM
In the wake of the landmark Supreme Court ruling on funeral protests (covered here in our last but one Inforrm round up), the controversy surrounding the activities of the notorious Westoboro Baptist Church continues. [read post]
15 Sep 2013, 1:56 pm by Jeff Gamso
Fifty years ago today they bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. [read post]