Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Takeaways from the Masterpiece case (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Carl Esbeck, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Misunderstanding religion in Masterpiece (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Leslie Griffin, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Against the religious liberty optimists (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Darel Paul, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The ingredient for a LGBT triumph? (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Oklahoma voters approve medical marijuana despite opposition
(Sean Murphy, Associated Press)
Prince William’s Jerusalem visit highlights unique ancestor
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
Israel expands Rabbinical Court divorce jurisdiction to cover recalcitrant non-Israeli husbands
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Law for rabbinical courts to hear non-Israeli divorce cases approved
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Cert. filed in Bladensburg cross challenge
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Notre Dame and HHS sued over settlement of contraceptive mandate coverage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The Trump-Pence administration is making back-room deals that take away our birth control coverage – so we’re going to court
(National Women's Law Center)
Supreme Court holds California's FACT Act violates speech rights of pro-life clinics
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump's travel ban upheld by Supreme Court; Establishment Clause challenge rejected
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Why many religious liberty groups are silent about the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s travel ban
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
U.S. Supreme Court upholds “Travel Ban” against religious liberty challenge
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
At the Supreme Court, a day of infamy for religious freedom
(Charles C. Haynes, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Ignoring the evidence: The Supreme Court’s travel ban decision
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)
Supreme Court says bon voyage to Trump travel ban challenges
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA-Defense)
5 of 7 nations hit by US travel ban are majority Muslim
(Associated Press)
Muslims, advocates saddened over court’s travel ban decision
(Jeff Karoub and Julie Watson, Associated Press)
Experts: Ruling on Trump comments could aid other lawsuits
(Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press)
Travel ban decision follows the Supremes’ record of racial classification
(Hussein Rashid, Religion News Service)
Law Pod UK latest on Brexit
(Rosalind English, Law & Religion UK)
De-humanisation? CJEU, Liga van Moskeeën en islamitische Organisaties Provincie Antwerpen on Religious Slaughter
(Anne Peters, EJIL: Talk!)
Case C-426/16, Liga van Moskeeën en islamitische Organisaties Provincie Antwerpen et al v. Vlaams Gewest
(Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber), Court of Justice of the European Union)
EVENT, 27 June 2018: The Fourth of July, the Founders, and the First Freedom, Washington, DC
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Utah developer quits Vermont plans inspired by Mormon leader
(Lisa Rathke, Associated Press Religion)
Attorneys for The American Legion turn to Supreme Court as the last hope for preserving 90-year-old veterans memorial
(First Liberty)
Progressive Democrat who upset NY incumbent accused Israel of ‘massacre’ in Gaza
(JTA)
Muslim Americans on Trump's travel ban: 'We live as second-class citizens'
(Oliver Laughland, The Guardian)
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Failure of foresight? New York Times looks at globalization and the immigration backlash
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
No gay wedding flowers yet: Reporters puzzle over what Baronelle Stutzman ruling means
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
SCOTUS upholds Trump's travel ban. Here's why experts say the ruling contradicts the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
High court OKs Trump’s travel ban, rejects Muslim bias claim
(Mark Sherman, Associated Press)
Dutch senators vote for partial ban on burqa in public places
(Associated France-Presse in The Hague, The Guardian)
Dutch Parliament passes limited ban on burqa, niqab
(Carol Kuruvilla, Huffington Post)
Dutch approve partial ban on burqa wearing in public
(Expatica)
Freedom of religion versus equal rights is tested in the Canadian and US Supreme Courts
(Damien Carrick (podcast with Iain Benson), ABC News Australia)
Pompeo to gather 'like-minded' allies on religious freedom
(Nahal Toosi, Politico)
'Bake the cake' and the Red Hen controversy
(Ben Shapiro)
A welcome blow for free speech
(The Editors, National Review)
In vindicating Trump’s travel ban, the Supreme Court upheld the law
(David French, National Review)
The Supreme Court gets the ‘travel ban’ case right
(The Editors, National Review)
Presidential power: The justices vote 5-4 to uphold Donald Trump’s travel ban
(S.M., The Economist [Democracy in America])
BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Trump’s travel ban
(Jack Crowe, National Review)
Live: Supreme Court upholds travel ban
(Meg Wagner and Brian Ries, CNN Politics)
Opinion analysis: Divided court upholds Trump travel ban
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
SCOTUS held ban is within president's authority under immigration laws and challengers are unlikely to prevail on establishment clause claim because the ban is justified by legitimate national-security concerns (opinion in Trump v. Hawaii)
(Slip Opinion, Supreme Court of the United States)
Travel ban case explained: Trump v. Hawaii
(National Review)
Supreme Court upholds Trump's travel ban, delivering endorsement of presidential power
(Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear, The New York Times)
The travel ban case: What Trump gets
(Rich Lowry, National Review)
Supreme Court rules 5-4 to uphold travel ban (on-air reporting)
(Fox News)
The Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump’s travel ban isn’t a ‘Muslim ban,’ annotated
(Aaron Blake, The Washington Post: The Fix)
WATCH: Lawmakers respond to Supreme Court ruling on Trump travel ban
(Larisa Epatko, PBS News Hour)
More and updating Travel Ban case headlines
The Supreme Court hands a win to the pro-life movement
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
SCOTUS holds that California law requiring licensed anti-abortion nonprofits to inform pregnant patients about availability of free or low-cost abortions elsewhere likely violates First Amendment; provision requiring unlicensed nonprofits to disclose inab
(Slip Opinion, Supreme Court of the United States)
Supreme Court rules in favor of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers: A breakdown of NIFLA v. Becerra
(Madeline Farber, Fox News)
In Becerra, conservative Christians win with liberal legal arguments
(Andrew R. Lewis, The New York Times Opinion)
U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of pro-life pregnancy centers
(Press Release, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA))
National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra
(Case page, SCOTUSblog)
More about NIFLA v. Becerra (compelled-speech case)
Abortion and travel ban rulings are victory for G.O.P. tactics on Gorsuch
(Elizabeth Dias and Sydney Ember, The New York Times)
Pensions, gender reassignment, religion and marriage: MB
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Principles for church planting set out by bishops
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Monday, 25 June 2018
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Turkey's Erdogan victorious in election that grants him unprecedented power
(Gul Tuysuz, Isil Sariyuce, Angela Dewan and Euan McKirdy, CNN)
Totalitarian tyrant or trusted leader? Turkish voters split on Erdoğan
(Kareen Shaheen, The Guardian)
How to read Turkey's election results
(Kemal Kirişci, Brookings)
The Guardian view on Erdoğan’s Turkey: illiberal democrat takes power
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Turkey elections 2018: Erdoğan declared winner – as it happened
(Kate Lyons, Verity Bowman, and Jon Henley, The Guardian)
What do Turkey's 2018 election results mean for the Kurds?
(Mohammed Vall, Al Jazeera)
Law and religion round-up – 24th June
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Supreme Court passes on new chance to take on hot issues
(Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko, Associated Press)
Court sends battles over services for same-sex couples, North Carolina gerrymandering back to lower courts
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Supreme Court returns florist accommodation case to Washington for reconsideration
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Justices won’t hear case of anti-gay marriage florist
(Gene Johnson, Associated Press)
Supreme Court vacates and remands Arlene's Flowers case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Oregon Supreme Court denies appeal from anti-gay Christian bakers
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
2nd Circuit: Muslim plaintiffs can seek money damages under RFRA for no-fly list abuse
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Anti-blasphemy laws are blasphemous (and they're a threat to religious freedom)
(Doug Bandow, The American Spectator)
Report: 86 killed in Nigeria as farmers, herders clash
(Sam Olukoya, Associated Press)
Christian death toll from herdsmen attacks mounts in Adamawa State, Nigeria
(Morning Star News Nigeria, Christian Headlines)
Massachusetts voters may repeal transgender 'bathroom bill'
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
The editor, the cartoonist, his image and her decision
(Paul Chadwick, The Guardian)
England’s cathedrals hark back to the middle ages to pull in crowds
(Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian)
Why Turkey's election result matters to America
(Amada Sloat, Time)
‘Calling it a cult is degrading’: Wild Wild Country’s Ma Anand Sheela on her time as Bhagwan’s lieutenant
(Sam Wollaston, The Guardian)
Two frogs were married by Indian governor to "appease gods"
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Are Millennials replacing religion with astrology and spiritualism?
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Angry priest fired for smacking baby during baptism
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Study finds mounting global restrictions on religion
(Catholic News Agency)
Religious restrictions on the rise
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Restrictions on religion around the world continue to increase
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
How to save the world: Schedule some awe in your summer vacation
(Holly Lebowitz Rossi, Religion News Service)
Poor People’s Campaign rally ends with vows to keep organizing and protesting
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Presbyterians demur on divestment from fossil fuels
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Study: East African converts to Islam are recruitment targets by extremist groups
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
How social media trolls turned U.C. Berkeley into a free speech circus
(Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker)
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