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Protecting People from Their Own Religious Communities: Jane Doe in Church and State

This new article of mine will be coming out next year in the Journal of Law and Religion, and I thought I'd serialize it here; there's still plenty of time for editing, so I'd love to hear people's feedback. Here's the Introduction: [* * *] Debates about religious exemptions often…

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Karnataka High Court declines plea that claimed words used in Azan hurt sentiments of people of other religions

Petitioner had sought a direction to authorities to stop the use of loudspeakers in mosques for Azan

The Hindu

Anger over Texas mandate requiring ‘In God We Trust’ posters in every school: ‘Religion imposed on public’

Law requires posters to be displayed ‘in a conspicuous place’ in all schools

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Alarm over Texas law forcing schools to display ‘In God We Trust’ signs

Civil rights advocates say it ‘imposes religion’ as new law requires public campuses to display donated items bearing that phrase

The Guardian - US

Andhra Pradesh: Vote JSP to power for a ‘golden rule’, Pawan Kalyan exhorts people

‘Humanism has been my caste and religion since childhood, and I will never play caste politics’

The Hindu

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

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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

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…

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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…

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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

After Arvind Kejriwal, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot retorts to PM Narendra Modi's 'revdi culture' remarks

JAIPUR: Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday countered Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'revdi culture' remark, saying welfare schemes for the people cannot be dubbed as freebies. Citing weekly payments made to the poor and elderly in developed countries, he said it is the responsibility of the government to implement…

The Times of India

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.

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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…

The Guardian - UK

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 Times of India

Nationalism is not a mere political programme; Nationalism is a religion: Sri Aurobindo

While August 15 is celebrated as the Independence Day of India, this special day also marks the birth anniversary of one of the most important philosopher-sage of the 20th century, Sri Aurobindo. Born on August 15, 1872, he joined India's independence movement from British rule and later became a spiritual…

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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…

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The Guardian - US

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 Times of India

Himachal Assembly passes bill against forced mass conversion with voice vote

SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a bill on Saturday forbidding "mass conversion". The bill enhances the maximum punishment to 10 years imprisonment in its 2019 law against any change of religion through force or allurement.

ABC News

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.

Benzinga

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.

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

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