The Supreme Court has accepted a case, Fulton v. Philadelphia, that presents the question, among others, of whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Employment Division v. Smith, issued in 1990, should be overruled. Smith held that, when a person challenges application of a law of general applicability on the ground that it restricts the person’s […]
If Smith Is on the Way Out, What’s on the Way in? Read More
NLF in its amicus brief in the Supreme Court points out a methodological flaw in the “undue burden” analysis in recent abortion cases.
NLF Weighs in on Abortion in Supreme Court Read More
A state may not refuse tax credits for contributions solely because some resulting scholarships go to religious schools.
The ministerial exception covers more than just churches and schools.
The Ministerial Exception Has a Broad Reach Read More
Justice Thomas in two concurrences to denial of cert excoriates the Court’s abortion case law.
Why Is Justice Thomas on the Warpath Against Abortion? Read More
Project Blitz is attacked with ad hominem, rather than reason.
Ad Hominem Attacks Erupt When Reason Fails Read More
Abortion is not properly upheld as providing equal rights for women.
What’s at the Bottom of Abortion Rights? An Understandable, but False, Syllogism Read More
Carrying a child to term is not “involuntary servitude under the Thirteenth Amendment
Is the Mother in “Involuntary” Servitude to Her Unborn Child? Read More
It is not uncommon for philosophers and social commentators to refer to any overarching belief system as a religion. For example, just out from Daniel Mahoney is The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity (2018), in which he argues that secular humanism is treated as ultimate truth by many and,
Is Atheism Religion Under the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses? Read More
In part 1 of this blog, I suggested that a plain reading of the text of the Fourteenth Amendment included the unborn in the class of “any person” to whom are given the benefits of due process and equal protection from the reaches of the States and (through the Fifth Amendment) the Federal Government before
The People have already spoken on abortion, Part 2 Read More