Christianity Today reports that the Trump Administration is targeting Iranian Christian migrants for deportation: On June 19, as Iran and Israel exchanged volleys of missiles and officials secretly finalized plans to dispatch American bombers to strike Iranian nuclear sites, pastor Ara Torosian published a letter to his church. Torosian, an Iranian pastor at Cornerstone West […]
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[1.] The Supreme Court has been debating the meaning of the Free Exercise Clause for over 60 years. One view has been that the Clause generally gives religious objectors a presumptive right to be exempted from generally applicable laws, such as from bans on using peyote, requirements that one provide one’s child’s social security number […]
A confluence of three hot-topic issues, from a Dec. 3, 2024 Department of Homeland Security decision. Note that the claim here is a statutory religious exemption claim, not a constitutional claim under the Free Exercise Clause, though the statute is interpreted in light of the Supreme Court’s First Amendment jurisprudence about the kinds of lines […]
On Friday, a federal appeals court affirmed an earlier ruling blocking a Louisiana law mandating that public school classrooms display posters of the Ten Commandments. The decision is the latest development in a series of state-level attempts to mandate religious instruction in public schools. “This is a resounding victory for the separation of church and […]
From U.S. v. Thompson, decided Monday by Judge Karen Marston (E.D. Pa.): On August 12, 2004, Thompson was sentenced to eight to twenty years’ imprisonment after being convicted in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County for Attempted Murder, Aggravated Assault, Carrying Firearms without a License, and Possession of an Instrument of Crime. He […]
When Bridger Lee Jensen opened a spiritual center in Provo, Utah, he contacted city officials to let them know the religious group he had founded, Singularism, would be conducting ceremonies involving a tea made from psilocybin mushrooms. “Singularism is optimistic that through partnership and dialogue, it can foster an environment that respects diversity and upholds […]
The perpetrators of antisemitic violence and murder, which I abhor and condemn, should be punished to the maximum extent of the law. The killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as well as the terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, are nauseating examples of antisemitic brutality. Furthermore, it is intellectually and morally repugnant for anyone to […]
The Clause provides: This state or a political subdivision of this state may not enact, adopt, or issue a statute, order, proclamation, decision, or rule that prohibits or limits religious services, including religious services conducted in churches, congregations, and places of worship, in this state by a religious organization established to support and serve the […]
The monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery, a 1,600-year-old Greek Orthodox site in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, closed its doors to visitors in protest after an Egyptian court ruled that the monastery’s land belongs to the government. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery, St. Catherine’s faces uncertainty as the rul […]
A female nude spa in Washington state cannot bar preoperative transgender women, a federal court ruled last week, rejecting the claim that forcing the business to serve customers with male genitalia violated its First Amendment rights. In 2020, Haven Wilvich, who identifies as a “nonbinary trans woman,” filed a complaint with the Washington State Human […]
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