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28 Feb 2019, 5:04 am by Eugene Volokh
Differentiation has not always meant what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he wrote of a wall of separation between church and state in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 7:12 am by Richard B. Katskee
Katskee is Legal Director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 8:41 am by Heather Weaver
Weaver is a senior staff attorney for the Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief at the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
2 Oct 2018, 7:25 am by Sam Brunson
After all, he testified that the provision occurred to him when a Baptist official called it to his attention. [read post]
29 Sep 2018, 3:49 pm by Andrew Delaney
Compare that, of course, with Westboro Baptist Church and their unique brand of political speech, which—because it comments on matters of public concern—does receive First Amendment protection from civil liability. [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler
Both the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention and the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church have pledged to forge a new path on this issue. [read post]
6 Jul 2018, 10:00 am
 In 1667, Virginia law stated that if an enslaved person became Christian it did not mean freedom because the only way that conversion could happen was through the “charity and piety of their masters. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 11:53 am by Edith Roberts
Must courts rubber-stamp even the most nonsensical encroachments on occupational freedom? [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 2:25 pm by Tom Smith
As Thomas points out, it would be very odd for the Supreme Court to protect the right of members of the Westboro Baptist Church to carry signs saying, “God hates fags,” and the right of the Ku Klux Klan to burn 25-foot crosses, and yet rule that Phillips can’t politely decline to bake a cake. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 1:59 am by Jonathan Rieder
” Just days after he got out of the Birmingham jail, King spoke to a black audience at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 2:15 am by Scott Bomboy
Leland’s followers were Baptists in the decidedly non-Baptist New England, and the cheese was seen as a symbol of religious freedom and diversity. [read post]
19 Mar 2018, 11:02 am by msatta
Although the Church in the Middle Ages condemned abortion as a sin, the law did not treat abortion as a crime. [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]
19 Feb 2018, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The Surprising Divide within the Baptist Community Concerning Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. [read post]
19 Dec 2017, 3:08 pm by Marty Lederman
At oral argument two weeks ago in Masterpiece Cakeshop, the Justices did not appear to be taken with any of the unconvincing distinctions that the bakery’s counsel and the U.S. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 12:54 pm by Kevin
(Towns in that general area of the state purportedly include Plain Dealing, Belcher, Trees, Woodchuck, Latex, Oil City—across the lake from Uncertain, Texas—and, to my great and continuing astonishment, a town named Koran, Louisiana, home of the Koran Baptist Church.) [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 7:00 am by Jenny Gesley
Religious societies that enjoyed public law corporation status before the Weimar Constitution was adopted and kept that status under the Basic Law are the Protestant churches, the Roman Catholic church, individual Jewish congregations, Old Catholics and Old Lutherans, the Baptists, and the Mennonites. [read post]