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Efforts to get minority tag for Lingayat will continue after elections, says Patil

Chairman of KPCC Campaign Committee clarifies that there was never an intent to divide religion

The Hindu

Lingayat religion row: Siddaramaiah repents effort to divide community, says seer

Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah says, “I explained to the seer in detail what all we did on the issue. I never intended to divide the Lingayat community”

The Hindu

Psychedelic Drugs As A Religious Right: New Lawsuit Relaunches The Debate

The Zide Door Church of entheogenic plants in Oakland, California, is suing the city and its security department over a police raid that allegedly constituted a violation of religious and constitutional freedom.

Benzinga

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The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the "Most-Favored-Nation" Theory of Religious Liberty, Part IV: Easy Paths to Strict Scrutiny

Let's move on to other variants. One looks at whether a law has any exceptions at all, and, if religious reasons are not among those exceptions, automatically applies strict scrutiny. It was proposed by Justice Kavanaugh in his dissent in Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak, and possibly embraced by…

Reason

The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the "Most-Favored-Nation" Theory of Religious Liberty, Part II: The Origins of MFN

The present doctrinal development begins with Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah (1993), in which the Court invalidated a ban on animal sacrifice. The Court had previously held that there was no right to religious exemptions from neutral laws. But this law wasn't neutral. It targeted an unpopular religion…

Reason

Columbia River's salmon are at the core of ancient religion

The Columbia River, which natives call Nch’i-Wána, or “the great river,” has sustained Indigenous people in the region for millennia

The Independent UK

Iran says Salman Rushdie and supporters only ones to blame for attack

Iran foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said freedom of speech does not justify Salman Rushdie insulting religion and that only he and his supporters were "worthy of blame" for the stabbing

Daily Mirror

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Religions have long known that getting away from it all is good for the mind, body and spirit

Summer vacations are coming to an end – though not everyone took one.

The Conversation

The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the "Most-Favored-Nation" Theory of Religious Liberty, Part I: The New Law of Free Exercise

Eugene has kindly invited me to contribute a series of posts, briefly describing my taxonomy of new variants of the most-favored-nation theory of religious liberty (forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review). I'm particularly pleased by the invitation, because I wrote the piece in conscious emulation of the kind of careful…

Reason

First Thing: Iran says Salman Rushdie and supporters to blame for attack

Foreign ministry spokesperson says freedom of speech does not justify insults upon religion. Plus, Black women around the world share their birth stories

The Guardian - UK

Prof. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern) Guest-Blogging About Religious Liberty

I'm delighted to report that Prof. Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern) will be guest-blogging this coming week about his new article, "The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the 'Most-Favored-Nation' Theory of Religious Liberty": The First Amendment prohibits discrimination against religion. In a short time, mostly in cases challenging efforts to contain the Covid…

Reason

Salman Rushdie teaches us an invaluable lesson

It is courageous and necessary to stand up against tyrants – even when those tyrants claim to have God on their side

The Guardian - US

Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning author and fierce critic of religion with a bounty on his head

Salman Rushdie has lived under threat of death for decades after a fatwa was issued in response to the content of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses.

ABC News

Elon Musk Is OK Going To Hell: But Does He Believe in God?

Among the topics discussed by Elon Musk on the Full Send Podcast was the meaning of life and if the Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO believes in God. Here's what Musk had to say about religion and philosophy.

Benzinga

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AAP

Murder trial told of religious arguments

The son of a man bashed to death has denied making up claims that his father had heated arguments about religion with his employee, now on trial for murder.

The Conversation

American Sikhs are targets of bigotry, often due to cultural ignorance

Ten years ago, a white supremacist opened fire on a Sikh congregation in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and injuring several others before taking his own life. An eighth person, Baba Punjab Singh, was left partially paralyzed and died from his wounds a few years later.

The Guardian - UK

UK government honoured anti-abortion figure before editing women’s rights statement

Former US envoy given award at conference now engulfed in row over changes to reproductive rights pledges, while participant list revealed to have included members of a group accused of hate speech

The Independent UK

UK government deleted abortion rights from gender statement ‘to be inclusive of all perspectives’

Liz Truss hosted conference on religious belief but it was overshadowed by diplomatic row about abortion rights

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Al Jazeera

Touch not my anointed: Holy fever grips Kenya in election season

In Kenya, where majority are Christians, politicians and clerics are invoking religion ahead of Tuesday’s crucial vote.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dear Abby: I have to do things Dad’s way or he’ll tell lies about me

Woman worries her manipulative father will turn her siblings against her if he learns she’s seeing someone from another religion.

The Guardian - AU

Melbourne’s western suburbs need real solutions, not an anti-trans culture war

The preselection of religious conservative Moira Deeming shows the Victorian Liberals are out of touch with Melbourne’s west

Liverpool Echo

Man turned to secretive religion after his mum died

He said he was hooked after seeing a sign saying "free personality test"

Reuters

Muslim men likely targeted and killed in New Mexico, police say

The murders of three Muslim men in New Mexico's largest city in the past nine months were likely linked and they appear to have been targeted for their religion and race, police said.

Salon

Christian nationalism goes mainstream

Christian nationalist ideology suggests that unless they control the state, the state will suppress Christianity

The Independent UK

Monks’ role in Sri Lanka protests raises familiar questions

The protests that drove Sri Lanka's president from office brought together people from across the country’s diverse and sometimes warring ethno-religious groups: Tamils, Muslims, Christians, Sinhala Buddhists and the saffron-robed Buddhist monks who are fixtures of the political scene

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