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Religious exemptions have allowed employers to discriminate based on faith—slippery slope would be an understatement.

Now that both Indiana and Arkansas have enacted their Religious Freedom Restorations Acts, with each altered in response to an unprecedented and swift-moving opposition, it’s worth taking a look at…

If harm to others is cultural chauvinism, sign me up.

My previous post on corporate personhood ended by asking for a principled reason why we should protect the “religious freedom” of religiously-affiliated nonprofit corporations such as Wheaton College…

According to one common reaction to Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Court set a precedent in nonsense by supposing that a corporation—an artificial legal construct—could engage in an exercise of religion…

Last week the Supreme Court succeeded in deciding a case that it said was too easy. The case, Holt v. Hobbs, was brought by an Arkansas inmate seeking an exemption from Arkansas Department of…

The Supreme Court issued its opinion in Holt on Tuesday, holding that prison regulations that prevented a Muslim inmate from growing a short beard for religious reasons violated the Religious Land Use…

We already know that 2014 was a big year for religious exemption cases, from the gravely serious to the immensely trivial. But what will 2015 have in store? If I were a prophet I could, of course…

2014 was the year that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) made a comeback, and now religious exemptions are the talk of the (policy wonk) town. As Hobby Lobby emboldened those seeking…

From religious violence to fear of contagion to economic and racial injustice: taking full measure of what we are up against.