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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…

Is meth the new peyote? A woman arrested in Oklahoma recently for possession of methamphetamine is arguing that as a Wiccan she has a religious right to possess and use the drug for her religious…

The Hobby Lobby decision relied, to some extent, on the existence of a thing called “closely-held corporations”; only that’s not really a thing at all.

On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard arguments in Holt v. Hobbs, a case about whether a prisoner in Arkansas has the right to grow a ½-inch beard for religious reasons. The media commentary has…

This May, the Supreme Court’s Town of Greece vs. Galloway ruling allowed sectarian invocations at town meetings. But moderates assured us that that could mean any “sectarian.” As if to support this…

Like many of you, I’ve been spending much of July fuming over how to properly vent my frustration with the disturbing implications of SCOTUS’s Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College rulings. Not being a…

Much has been written about the recent Hobby Lobby decision—how it’s a terrible precedent for corporations to be able to ignore laws because they claim a religious opposition, how the ruling will…

Apart from whether or not we like the Hobby Lobby decision, there seems to be some confusion about the ruling evidenced by the fact that people keep asking “What about Blood transfusions in companies…

You’re probably celebrating, and I’m not here to spit venom on your parade. When you have a moment, I’ve got a question for you that has dogged me throughout the coverage of this case. It doesn’t get…

No, the sky didn’t fall with today’s SCOTUS decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. The Court majority siding with the Green family took care to claim that the decision’s impact will be very limited. They…