It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to...
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) plans to argue that bakers and florists are "artists," and can't be forced to engage in artistic expression that contravenes their religious beliefs.
View ArticleTrump’s DOJ Wants Constitutional Protection for Wedding Cakes, Not LGBT People
Nine months into Donald Trump’s presidency, it should surprise no one to learn that his...
View ArticleThe Subway Sandwich Artist Argument; When “Religious Freedom” Isn’t About...
Consider this faintly ridiculous hypothetical: I am in line at my local Subway sandwich shop,...
View ArticleThe Religious Case Against Religious Discrimination in Cakeshop Case
It might be tempting to think that Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission—the upcoming...
View ArticleHow a Ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop Could Embolden White Nationalists
While deploying “religious freedom” arguments to push back on progressive social change is hardly new,...
View ArticleWhat Masterpiece Cakeshop Oral Arguments Suggest About the Future of LGBT...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights...
View ArticleDog Whistles and Holes in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Arguments?
If nothing else, Tuesday’s oral arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case make clear that the ghosts of...
View ArticleWhy I Joined Over a Thousand Faith Leaders in Masterpiece Case Brief
Last weekend, I joined thousands of people of faith in praying for LGBTQ justice in...
View ArticleLGBTQ Equality Pendulum “Abruptly” Swinging Back as Religious Exemptions Gain...
As the U.S. Supreme Court continues to mull the arguments of a baker who on...
View Article“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big...
Religious freedom has been much in the news as the Trump administration has rolled out...
View ArticleSCOTUS’s Incoherent Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision
If you had to choose a word to describe the news of today’s Supreme Court...
View ArticleHere’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in Masterpiece
By now we’ve all learned that the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Masterpiece Cakeshop case in...
View Article“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big...
Launched initially in 2015, Project Blitz brings something new and dramatic to the Christian Right as it continues to mature as a political movement—especially in light of its electoral advances in...
View ArticleSCOTUS’s Incoherent ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’ Decision
If you had to choose a word to describe the news of today’s Supreme Court...
View ArticleHere’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’
The Court may not have explicitly rejected Phillips’s free speech claims, but the fact that seven of nine justices chose not to follow Phillips and his attorneys in their primary reasoning, even while...
View ArticleOn Historic “Decision Day,” SCOTUS Sends LGBT Americans Mixed Messages
For LGBT legal nerds like me, June 26 is an important day. Every major pro-equality...
View ArticleWill Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?
While most of us (including your faithful RD staffers) were prepping the grill for a long...
View ArticleThe Most Ominous Promises Jeff Sessions Just Made to ADF Attorneys
It took a few days and a series of FOIA requests, but Attorney General Jeff...
View ArticleDear Mr. President: We Get It. You Really Love White Conservative Christians
The Trump administration’s latest gift to its far-right, white conservative Christian base is the DOJ’s...
View ArticleWhat Justice Gorsuch’s Record Suggests About the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case
When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments December 5 in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil...
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