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Linda Greenhouse, A Supreme Court Hijacking, The New York Times
The so-called bipartisan support for RFRA fell apart before the 2000 re-enactment because it is a tool for discrimination and extreme imposition of beliefs on third parties, as I document here. The actual hijacking is the Court’s aggrandizement of its power through RFRA to impose its preferred social policies and second-guess Congress.
Tierney Sneed, SCOTUS Asks Objectors To Contraceptive Opt-Out: Show Us Better Alternatives, Talking Post Memo
A question only the “least restrictive means” test would justify.
Greg Bluestein, BREAKING: Nathan Deal vetoes Georgia’s ‘religious liberty’ bill, AJC
Best reason to veto a RFRA: Leave religious liberty to the First Am. Congress should do the same
Professor Marci Hamilton, Zubik and RFRA: A Short Lesson in Overreaching, Tyranny, and Ineffectual Government, Hamilton and Griffin on Rights
The oral argument in Zubik v. Burwell was yet another lesson that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is fundamentally an unworkable and unreasonable statute that trenches on the separation of powers and erases the separation of church and state. It tempts Justices to be super-legislators, believers tyrants, and the federal government a bowl of […]
Anne Barrett Doyle, BishopAccountability.Org: Making Children Safer: More Prosecutors Are Charging Catholic Officials for Enabling Abusers, Hamilton and Griffin on Rights
The taboo against prosecuting clergy dies hard but it must if kids are to be safe
Bishop David A. Zubik, Zubik v. Burwell Let’s hope the Supreme Court stands up for religious liberty, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Religious leaders brazenly use “religious liberty” as though there is a constitutional right to be unreasonable.
“liberty” demanded in Zubik is extreme and unprecedented
Steve Lieberman, Ramapo raid targets area with more yeshivas planned, Lohud.com
Righteous acts for the protection of children
Kyle Wingfield, Georgia’s new, narrower, more cautious religious-liberty bill, My AJC
This is a rfra plus redundancy of First Amendment Protections. Waste of time and dangerous for all vulnerable individuals whether “third parties” or not. One point: the protection for firing based on faith is Hosanna Tabor on steroids.
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