Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Pope Francis says war is never right way to stop injustice; distances himself from support of airstrikes against ISIS
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Poat)
Civil penalties, injunction issued against FLDS towns
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit alleges anti-Hasidic conspiracy by two municipalities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Missouri lawmaker, wife, ask court for contraception insurance exclusion
(Jennifer S. Mann, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Spain opens door to ban on burqas
(The Local)
Religious left says it won’t drop the moral mantle in 2014
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
8th Circuit hears oral arguments in individuals' religious challenge to contraceptive coverage mandate
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
A second Christian student suffers discrimination at Maryland College; ACLJ sues
(American Center for Law and Justice)
College applicant sues claiming rejection because of religious beliefs
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Isis recruitment moves from online networks to British mosques
(Shiv Malik and Sandra Laville, The Guardian)
From Cain to ISIS
(R.R. Reno, First Things)
Letter to NC schools: Law protects religious rights of all
(Bob Kellogg, One News Now)
New marriage appeals: Indiana and Wisconsin
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
U.S. report on religious freedom in Uzbekistan biased - Tashkent
(Interfax-Religion)
Atheists want you to sit down for the Pledge of Allegiance
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Why I stopped saying America’s Pledge of Allegiance
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Last weekend was National Days of Prayer and Remembrance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Egyptian fire crew in no hurry to put out church fire
(World Watch Monitor)
American pro-life clinic to open in Belfast
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
South London vicar 'presided over 492 sham marriages in 15 months'
(Lucinda Borkett-Jones, Christian Today)
Gun battle in Yemeni capital after soldiers kill four Shi'ites
(Mohammed Ghobari, Reuters)
Gay marriage for UK diplomat in Chinese consulate
(Agence France-Presse)
Killing and preaching, Nigerian militants carve out 'caliphate'
(Isaac Abrak, Reuters)
Gambia lawmakers pass bill to jail gays for life
(Robbie Corey-Boulet, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Israeli police bust 'messianic' prostitution ring
(BBC News)
French imams to use pulpit against Islamic State
(Lori Hinnant, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
The state of our disunion
(John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumenism)
Immigrant sanctuary gains popularity in Arizona
(Astrid Galvan, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Christian group sanctioned at two dozen college campuses
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
The divide over ordaining women
(David Masci, Pew Research Center)
Church meets surf in California at 'blessing of the waves'
(Tamara Audi, The Wall Street Journal)
InterVarsity Christian ministry in trouble for acting Christian
(Andrew Walker, First Things)
Why Pope Francis' 10 keys to happiness explain his popularity
(Robert Christian, National Catholic Reporter)
Gay marriage and the courts: Too far, too fast?
(S.M., The Economist [Democracy in America: American politics])
The Economist explains: Why India’s Muslims are so moderate
(A.R., The Economist Explains)
Monday, 8 September 2014
Amish families to sign permits to stay in their homes
(Chuck Rupnow, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram)
Iraqi clerics show support for minorities
(Ali Mamouri, trans. Sahar Ghoussoub, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Justice Department settles religious discrimination lawsuit against School District of Philadelphia
(Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice)
Rouhani speaks out against harsh enforcement of veil
(Arash Karami, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Squaring the 'Islamic democracy' circle in Tunisia - Analysis
(Eric Walberg, Eurasia Review)
The law versus religious belief
(Ian McEwan, The Guardian)
Atheists challenging ‘under God’ need to win hearts, not just minds
(Chris Stedman, RNS Blog: Faitheist)
Same-sex marriage: Jeremy Pemberton sues the C of E
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Ninth Circuit destroys arguments for banning same-sex marriage
(Emma Margolin, MSNBC)
Allegedly corrupt force kept intact, under watch
(Tim Hull, Courthouse News Service)
Jewish community in Bloomingburg files civil rights lawsuit against village, Town of Mamakating
(Jacob Kornbluh, JP Updates)
Missouri lawmaker challenges Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate
(The Kansas City Star)
ISIS has declared war. Now what?
(Sheila Liaugminas, MercatorNet)
In Nigeria, a dialogue of life brings religious groups together
(Joop Koopman, MercatorNet)
HHS tries new modifications to contraceptive coverage rules
(Vinnie Rotondaro, National Catholic Reporter)
Baptists, Mormons, ask Supreme Court to hear Utah marriage case
(Bob Allen, ABP News)
Reflections on same-sex marriage and religious liberty
(Hunter Baker, Canon & Culture: Christianity and the Public Square)
Egypt arrests 7 who appeared in video of same-sex wedding
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
11th Circuit denies habeas even though murder victim's pastor opened voir dire with prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Inquiry looks into use of religion in University football program
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Should atheists who refuse to say ‘so help me God’ be excluded from the Air Force?
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Live video feed of the Ninth Circuit oral arguments on same-sex marriage
(Dale Carpenter, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Hindu nationalist group seeking to cleanse Christian presence from India is not unlike ISIS, watchdog group warns
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
The new (religious) face of civil disobedience
(Sanford Levinson, Al Jazeera America)
Israel must obey Alternative Burial Law, without discrimination
(Haaretz)
CNN exclusive: From Glasgow girl to 'bedroom radical' and ISIS bride
(Atika Shubert and Bharati Naik, CNN World)
Alberta Human Rights Act still oppressing gays
(Beacon News)
Shimon Peres floats idea of U.N.-style “United Religions” with Pope Francis
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Burial space in London – and elsewhere
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Beirut: Rai, patriarchs to meet Obama over Christian persecution
(Hussein Dakroub, The Daily Star)
Italian nuns killed in Burundi convent attack
(BBC News)
An old story under India's new government
(World Watch Monitor)
Somali Islamist rebels pledge allegiance to new leader
(Abdi Sheikh, Reuters)
Evidence grows of Russian Orthodox clergy’s aiding Ukraine rebels
(Andrew Higgins, The New York Times)
Prophet or Judas? Son of China’s church founder tackles thorny legacy.
(William Wan, The Washington Post)
New Muftiat and Mosque seizures as divide and rule in the Crimea?
(Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group)
Russia: Further fines for religious literature
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Pates, other bishops head to Israel to promote peace
(Todd Erzen, The Des Moines Register)
As Iraqi Christians in U.S. watch ISIS advance, they see ‘slow-motion genocide’
(Samuel G. Freedman, The New York Times)
Islamic State becoming ‘dominant voice’ among global jihadists
(Week in Review, trans. Sibel Utku Bila, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Cameroon’s churches struggle to cope with Boko Haram spillover
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Migration transforms how churches do theology
(World Council of Churches)
Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada gay marriage laws in court
(Paul Elias, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Arab Bank mounts its defense in landmark terrorist financing case
(Sharyl Attkisson, The Daily Signal)
Religion and law round up – 7th September
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Sunday, 7 September 2014
8th Circuit: Small employer lacks standing to challenge contraceptive coverage mandate
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Devil in Detroit: Satanic group to build temple in Motor City
(RT)
Egypt arrests seven over 'gay wedding'
(Al Jazeera)
Saturday, 6 September 2014
State antidiscrimination law applies to selection of members of Catholic high school basketball team
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Churches urge high court to act on gay marriage
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Catesby’s American Dream: religious persecution in Elizabethan England
(Jessie Childs, OUPblog Religion)
Indonesia marriage laws: Students challenge law preventing people of different faiths from marrying
(George Roberts, Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Religion and gay rights take center stage in Brazil elections
(Mauricio Savarese, RT)
Air Force rejects serviceman’s re-enlistment for refusing oath to God
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Mainline churches hold Israel-bashing peace service
(Alexander Griswold, Juicy Ecumenism)
Why we have no ISIS strategy
(Tim Kelleher, Real Clear Religion)
"Parade of empathy" halted by same-sex marriage ruling
(Carolyn Moynihan, Conjugality: A Blog on the Future of Marriage)
Ukraine, Iraq and a Black Sea strategy
(George Friedman, MercatorNet)
Belgium's euthanasia law challenged
(Michael Cook, Careful!: A Blog about End-of-Life Issues)
Smelly little orthodoxies of Iran's Left: The anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism of Iranian intellectuals is especially troubling for one former comrade
(Roya Hakakian, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
The slippery slope of religious accomodation and how RFRA is teaching legislators to deny accomodations in the first place
(Marci A. Hamilton, Verdict)
Islamist Turkish politician: "Christianity is no longer a religion"
(Sharona Schwartz, The Blaze)
Christians who fled extremist terror in Mali return to the churches that were reduced to ruins
(Cath Martin, Christian Today)
A group is looking into Ole Miss' religious practices
(Hugh Kellenberger, The Clarion-Ledger)
Why do many pro-life Catholics vote Democrat?
(Napp Nazworth, Christian Post)
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