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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

August 28, 2018 No Comments

Teachers Have Free Exercise Rights, Too

Using the Establishment Clause as a brake on the Free Exercise Clause, the Ninth Circuit has recently held that a public school could prohibit a high school football coach from kneeling by himself on the field to pray briefly after a game because students could see him exercise his religion in that way. NLF will

July 31, 2018 No Comments

Minister’s Housing Allowance Decision Shows That Anti-Religious Bias Is Still Alive and Well in Some Courts

A federal district court judge in Wisconsin in Gaylor v. Mnuchen has decided that a tax provision favoring ministers that has been on the books for decades violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment (“Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the establishment [of religion]”). The provision in question allows ministers of

July 23, 2018 No Comments

SCOTUSblog Identifies Rick Claybrook as One of Best Writers of Supreme Court Amicus Briefs in the 2017 Term

The National Legal Foundation proudly notes a great achievement by our friend and frequent collaborator, Frederick (Rick) W. Claybrook, Jr. In a recent study of amicus briefs filed at the Supreme Court of the United States during the most recent Term, Rick’s briefs were highly rated in multiple categories. The National Legal Foundation was one

July 19, 2018 No Comments

WE DODGE THE BULLET IN MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP

The Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop struck down Colorado’s punishment of a baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex marriage (SSM). It did so, though, on different grounds than were principally presented. The case was principally argued on the basis that, because decorating a cake was “artistic” expression, it was “speech” under the First

July 14, 2018 No Comments

The Crusade to Outlaw Conversion Therapy Falsely Claims a “Scientific Consensus”

Teachers Have Free Exercise Rights, Too

Minister’s Housing Allowance Decision Shows That Anti-Religious Bias Is Still Alive and Well in Some Courts

SCOTUSblog Identifies Rick Claybrook as One of Best Writers of Supreme Court Amicus Briefs in the 2017 Term

WE DODGE THE BULLET IN MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP

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