Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Build-A-Baby coming soon?
(Hillary Mast, CNA Blog)
New York Catholics angered over financial hit to students
(Catholic News Agency)
IRS ordered to pay $50,000 to marriage defense group
(Catholic News Agency)
U.S. high court curbs state limits on abortion clinic protests
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
Supreme Court's abortion clinic ruling hailed as win for women
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Supreme Court unanimously rejects abortion clinic buffer zones
(Catholic News Agency)
9th Circuit denies en banc review on strict scrutiny for sexual orientation classifications
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
For newlyweds, possible stay of Indiana same-sex marriage ruling clouds horizon
(Jill Disis and Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star)
Emboldened by Utah ruling, Colorado clerk issues gay marriage licenses
(Keith Coffman and Daniel Wallis, Reuters)
Missouri officials battle over gay marriage following Utah ruling
(Carey Gillam, Reuters)
French court approves extradition for suspect in Jewish Museum attack
(Lucien Libert and Chine Labbe, Reuters)
Uighur scholar kept in chains in China, lawyer says
(Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard, Reuters)
7th Circuit: Church lacks standing to appeal injunction against city on cross display
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic buffer zones
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Jordanian court acquits radical cleric Abu Qatada of conspiracy
(Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters)
Sudan releases Christian convert but insists she stay in the country
(Maaz Alnugomi, Reuters)
Planned Parenthood leans on stereotypes to argue view on Hobby Lobby case
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Crimea: Raids, violence, threats – but what protection do victims get?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Commentary: Muslims don’t own the term ‘Allah’ in Malaysia or anywhere else
(Salaam Bhatti, Religion News Service)
Section 5: Views on religion, the Bible, evolution and social issues
(Pew Research Center for the People & the Press)
Could baptizing children of gay couples become a new battleground?
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Billy the Kid’s nun * Hoochie Cooch Tattoos * Latin lutefisk : Thursday’s Religion Roundup
(Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service)
Vatican confronts shifting landscape on family issues
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Vatican says believers are shunning Catholic lifestyle after scandals
(Lizzy Davies, The Guardian)
US senators ask President Obama to give Meriam Ibrahim asylum
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)
'Britain is becoming a more religious place, not less,' says historian
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)
Religion, conflict and the Balkans: An unholy powderkeg
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
The Russian Church criticizes Greek-Catholics for anti-Russian outbursts and proselytism
(Interfax-Religion)
Icons start myrrh-streaming in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Patriarch Kirill asking to free OSCE monitors captured in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Law restricting abortion protesters is unconstitutional, all nine Supreme Court justices agree
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Unanimous Supreme Court calls law restricting pro-lifers 'extreme'
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
Supreme Court protects prolife rights in abortion clinic case
(Chelsen Vicari, Juicy Ecumenism)
Meriam Ibrahim freed from police station after being accused of forging travel documents
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Forthcoming Grand Chamber judgment in the case of S.A.S. v. France
(European Court of Human Rights)
7th circuit dismisses church’s appeal in Evansville crosses case
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Hobby Lobby case won't be the end of the religious freedom discussion on contraception
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Baptist Joint Committee’s new RFRA resource page provides history, substance
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Stop saying “moderate Muslims.” You're only empowering Islamophobes.
(Nathan Lean, The New Republic)
Buffeted by tumult, Jewish population in Tunisia dwindles
(Carlotta Gall, The New York Times)
The depth of the biblical doctrine of marriage and morality
(Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism)
Thousands of Indian Muslims sign up to defend Iraq's shrines
(Sruthi Gottipati, Reuters)
Teaching creationism as scientifically valid now banned in all UK public schools
(JC Sevcik, United Press International)
Explosion at Nigerian mall kills at least 21
(Patrick McGroarty, The Wall Street Journal)
A millennial’s take on the Hobby Lobby case
(Jonathan Fuller, Juicy Ecumenism)
Shiite violence traps Baghdad’s Sunnis, haunted by a grim past
(Alissa J. Rubin and Rod Nordland, The New York Times)
U.S. launches bid to wrest Sunni tribes from militants
(Jay Solomon, The Wall Street Journal)
Jihadists step up recruitment drive
(Maria Abi-Habib, The Wall Street Journal)
Sudanese Christian woman freed again
(Mohamed Osman, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
United Church of Christ joins sponsors of gay games
(Stuart Elliott, The New York Times)
United Methodist pastor reinstated in same-sex marriage case
(John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumenism)
Doing the Lord’s business: A response to Jonathan Merritt
(Alexander Griswold, Juicy Ecumenism)
Evangelicalism’s major turn: the need for ‘generation replant’
(R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Southern Blog)
Mass. abortion clinic buffer zone law struck down
(Milton J. Valencia, Peter Schworm, and Martin Finucane, The Boston Globe)
Yet another unanimous judgment in McCullen v. Coakley
(Jonathan H. Adler, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Massachusetts abortion clinic buffer zone law overturned (in McCullen v. Coakley)
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Ruling shows crack in legal gay marriage unanimity
(Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
LDS Church issues statement regarding overturned Utah marriage amendment
(Emily Eyring, Deseret News)
Utah plans to appeal appellate court's ruling on same-sex marriage to U.S. Supreme Court
(Marjorie Cortez, Deseret News National Edition)
Experts: Ruling tees up gay marriage for top court
(Nicholas Riccardi and Brady McCombs, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Federal appeals court strikes down Utah ban on same-sex marriage
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
Are people killing each other today over an election dispute in Arabia more than a thousand years ago?
(Peter Berger, The American Interest)
Methodists reinstate pastor, deepening Church’s rift over gays
(Michael Paulson, The New York Times)
Cornerstone: A Conversation on Religious Freedom and Its Social Implications
(A New Blog Discussion, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs - Cornerstone)
Our Fractured Attitude Towards Corporate Conscience
(Brett G. Scharffs, SSRN)
Seattle Archdiocese to pay $12.1 million to settle sex abuse lawsuit
(Gram Slattery, The Christian Science Monitor)
Non-stunning response: e-petition
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Violent extremism and religious freedom
(Cornerstone Blog Discussion, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs - Cornerstone)
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim and the First World problem of “religious persecution”
(Benjamin L. Corey, Patheos Blog: Formerly Fundie)
Victory for Meriam
(Faith McDonnell, Juicy Ecumenism)
More on corporations in Hobby Lobby
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
10th Circuit Court upholds same-sex marriage
(Jessica Miller, Kirsten Stewart and Pamela Manson, The Salt Lake Tribune)
AP issues massive correction on Ireland child burial story
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Congress passes World War II Memorial Prayer Act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court decides dispute over proceeds from sale of church property
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Indiana attorney general files for emergency motion for stay on same-sex marriage ruling
(WTHR Channel 13)
Jury service does not violate free exercise rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Rizza Cadillac to pay $100K to three Arab Muslim employees under federal consent decree
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Statement on 10th Circuit ruling on Kitchen v. Herbert
(Press Release, Office of the Attorney General)
Supreme Court rejects right to die appeals
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
U.S. magistrate judge issues mixed report “dripping with hostility to religion” in case involving the censorship of a Christian teacher
(Press Release, American Freedom Law Center)
White House hosts global LGBT human rights forum
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Zoning denial for Catholic school athletic field lighting violates RLUIPA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Meriam Ibrahim: Sudanese woman freed from apostasy death sentence is re-arrested at airport... and then released again
(Mohamed Osman, The Independent)
Sudan summons U.S., South Sudan envoys in row over Christian convert
(Maaz Alnugomi, Reuters)
Anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka: Need to curb hardline Buddhists - analysis
(Archana Arul, Eurasia Review)
Savannakhet: Village chief denies Christian funeral and burial to new convert
(AsiaNews.it)
Nepal appeals to religious leaders to freed 60,000 nationals trapped in Iraq
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)
Hong Kong's referendum "is a cry for freedom by the people that Beijing cannot ignore"
(AsiaNews.it)
Pope's mafia "excommunication" a call to conversion, priests explain
(Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency)
Chaldean priest says little hope for Christians in Iraq
(Kate Veik, Catholic News Agency)
Sudanese woman sentenced to death re-arrested
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Why the Arab world is lost in an emotional Nakba, and how we keep it there
(Richard Landes, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Provincial Canadian court orders Google to block sites worldwide, in trade dispute
(Denyse O'Leary, Connecting)
Making gay okay--and criticising it taboo
(Robert R. Reilly and Alvino-Mario Fantini, MercatorNet)
Can democracy be Christian? Reflections on how to (not) be a political theologian
(Stanley Hauerwas, ABC: Religion and Ethics)
The fall of Mosul
(Phillip Jenkins, Aleteia)
What’s the track record when atheists wield political power?
(Richard Ostling, Patheos Blog: Religion Q&A)
Berlin House of One: The first church-mosque-synagogue?
(Stephen Evans, BBC)
The pope's divisions
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
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