The Ministerial Exception Has a Broad Reach
The ministerial exception covers more than just churches and schools.
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Why Is Justice Thomas on the Warpath Against Abortion?
Justice Thomas in two concurrences to denial of cert excoriates the Court’s abortion case law.
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Ad Hominem Attacks Erupt When Reason Fails
Project Blitz is attacked with ad hominem, rather than reason.
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What’s at the Bottom of Abortion Rights? An Understandable, but False, Syllogism
Abortion is not properly upheld as providing equal rights for women.
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Is the Mother in “Involuntary” Servitude to Her Unborn Child?
Carrying a child to term is not “involuntary servitude under the Thirteenth Amendment
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Is Atheism Religion Under the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses?
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,
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The People have already spoken on abortion, Part 2
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
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The People have already spoken on abortion, Part 1
Roe v. Wade has frequently been criticized because it has taken out of the democratic process the decision of when life begins and when a fetus should achieve legal rights. Allowing individual States to make the decisions, those who advance this argument says, will help unify us (at least those of us whose voice can
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Eighth Circuit Opens the Door for a Proper “Undue Burden” Analysis on the Availability of Abortion Services
On September 10, 2018, the Eighth Circuit in Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains v. Hawley (No. 17-1996) smacked the district court for entering a preliminary injunction against Missouri regulations that are designed to improve the safety of abortion surgery. The district court had applied like a blunt instrument the Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement
The Crusade to Outlaw Conversion Therapy Falsely Claims a “Scientific Consensus”
Model legislation has been pushed across the country, with success in several States, that prohibits counselors from using “conversion therapy” for those with homosexual or transgender inclinations. This model legislation begins with “findings” about an alleged “consensus” of “scientific” opinion that any attempt to persuade someone that homosexual and transgender inclinations are undesirable is senseless
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