first amendment

Why on earth is an orthodox Jew pushing a turbaned Muslim man in a wheelchair on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, the French baby-boomers’ favorite satirical magazine? Don’t bother looking for any deep symbolism—you won’t find it.

A federal judge thinks that might solve an Establishment Clause problem.

A story that reveals what’s wrong with the president’s failed promises on his faith-based office.

“Prop 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California…”

A report from the principally Catholic anti-contraception rally in Maryland reveals a constituency whose calls for religious freedom appear to be at the cost of freedom for all others.

At the end of 2011, in a sign of what’s to come, the U.S. Bishops warned the Obama administration to amend a regulation on contraception in its health care legislation or stand accused of religious discrimination.

On the Parable of the Kosher Deli, contraception, and freedom of religion.

What propelled a ginned up controversy into a media frenzy wasn’t that the Bishops opposed Obama—again; it was that “even progressive Catholics” were up in arms about it.

Their claim has already been tested in court.

Meanwhile, progressive Mormons welcome court ruling.