A Win For Religious Schools
by Richard W. GarnettThe Espinoza v. Montana ruling is the latest step in a decades-long doctrinal evolution that is as striking as it is welcome. Continue Reading »
Unjust Rules for Religious Believers
by Charles J. Chaput and Michael P. FarrisWhen public officials allow people to gather in secular settings but not religious ones, the government effectively declares that religious practice is not really necessary. Continue Reading »
Bad Faith Restrictions on Public Worship
by Mark MovsesianThe legality of public worship has become an item on our national agenda. Continue Reading »
An Attack on Free Speech in Finland
by Jonathon Van MarenFinland continues to persecute parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen for publicly defending the biblical view of homosexuality. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousReligious Freedom Matthew Schmitz is right that we should focus less on the need for a universal tolerance and more on what sort of vision of the good life ought to be pursued among the tolerated (“Limits of Religious Freedom,” March). But my reason for believing this is near opposite to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Right to Be Wrong
by Douglas LaycockIn “Limits of Religious Freedom” (March), Matthew Schmitz says that we must recognize limits to religious freedom and boundaries to what qualifies as religion. He is right on both counts. But the limits and boundaries he proposes, if taken at all literally, would bring an end to any meaningful . . . . Continue Reading »
An Informal Establishment
by Matthew SchmitzUnlike most other supporters of same-sex marriage, Douglas Laycock has spoken out in defense of Americans compelled to bake cakes or arrange flowers for same-sex weddings. This is cause to admire him, and to doubt his arguments. For he presents his own view of religious freedom as uncomplicated . . . . Continue Reading »
Limits of Religious Freedom
by Matthew SchmitzIn the face of determined assaults on religion, conservative activists and intellectuals have offered increasingly strident defenses of religious freedom. This “first freedom” is presented as an inviolable principle, an absolute “right to be wrong.” Such rhetoric oversells religious freedom . . . . Continue Reading »
A Plea for Pakistan’s Christians
by Charles J. ChaputChristians and other members of minority religions in Pakistan face chronic hostility, harassment, and persecution. Continue Reading »
China’s Second Cultural Revolution
by Thomas F. FarrMao’s successors concede that trying to kill religion is not realistic, but that religion poses a mortal threat to communist rule and must be controlled. Continue Reading »
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