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Entries Tagged as 'First Amendment – Religion'
Yet Another Hillbilly Decalogue Lawsuit
July 7th, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
On Religious Bigots' New-Found (Faux) Libertarianism
April 16th, 2009 · 22 Comments
If religious bigots really want to invoke libertarian arguments to legitimize their bigotry, then they better be prepared to be judged by real libertarians about the entire spectrum of libertarian issues.
Tags: Capitalism · First Amendment - Religion · Freedom of Contract · Law · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
"Eternal Vigilance" Post of the Day
March 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
"Whereas" a theocrat in Congress has introduced some outrageous "Whereas" clauses…
Tags: Activist Legislators & Nanny Statists · First Amendment - Religion · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Should There Be "Federal Civil Unions"?
February 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off
David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch seem to think so.
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · Gay Rights and Issues · Law · Libertarianism · Politics · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
In Honor of President's Day: On Washington's Religion
February 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Most of the Framers were Deists, not "Christians" in the modern sense.
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Kip Clip — Christmas Edition
December 25th, 2008 · Comments Off
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:9 Before there was bigotry, there was — bigotry. And before there was blogging, there was — blogging: We shall have to wait and see to what extent Rick Warren proves to be [...]
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · Gay Rights and Issues · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Questions — Special Theocracy Edition
December 1st, 2008 · Comments Off
–Which local theocracy tried to ban fortune tellers and soothsayers, until a federal judge declared the ban unconstitutional on free speech and vagueness grounds? –Which other local theocracy, meanwhile, is being sued for unconstitutionally pressuring a billboard company to remove an advertisement by an atheist group? –Moving on to statewide theocracies: Which U.S. state quietly [...]
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · Questions · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Bible-Thumpers Harass Sikh Trying to Make Donation
November 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
From "God's Love, We Deliver" to "God's House, Buzz Off" — When Gary Khera, went with his wife to the Union Mission on Roanoke Avenue to make a donation, a staffer asked him to remove his turban. "She said, 'Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States,'" Khera recounted. "That [...]
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · Property Rights · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Corky Scalia's Inadvertent Libertarianism
November 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Attributed to Scalia in yesterday's oral arguments for Pleasant Grove City v. Summum: "You can't run a museum if you have to accept everything, right?" Right — Which is exactly why the government should not be running museums in the first place. As for the outcome of this bizarre case, I think Chief Corky Roberts [...]
Tags: First Amendment - Religion · First Amendment - Speech · Libertarianism · Public Goods v. Private Goods · Updates
On Calls to Revoke LDS' Tax-Exempt Status
November 9th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Consider the following correction in Sunday's Washington Post: Because of an editing error, the Nov. 7 op-ed column "Vows That Can't Be Voted Down" incorrectly suggested that the Mormon Church had contributed funds to efforts to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. The op-ed should have said "members of [...]
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