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10 posts tagged "religious freedom"

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Same-sex adoption, religious freedom and the Supreme Court

Vince Mallett | Friday, September 11, 2020

In November, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in ​Fulton v. City of Philadelphia​, a case concerning a litany of controversial social issues: adoption by same-sex parents, religious discrimination and the role of private religious institutions in public life. The case also provides the Court an opportunity to overturn ​Employment Division v.

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Churchgoers, stay home

Blake Ziegler | Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The difficulties in containing the spread of coronavirus has raised legitimate concerns across the nation. When will this be over? How long until we can return to our jobs or schools? Is social distancing the new norm? Many Americans have turned to faith as a steady rock, and this could not have come at a

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Setting the record straight on school choice

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, February 6, 2020

In a recent Viewpoint piece about Catholic schools and public policy, columnists Jackie O’Brien and Mary Szromba argue a case against school choice that is full of legal errors and misunderstandings. They deal with a First Amendment school choice case, Espinoza v. Montana, which is currently before the Supreme Court. In responding to arguments made

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Lecture explores religious freedom in Islam

Thomas Murphy | Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and a self-described “Islamic modernist,” gave a lecture titled “Religious Freedom in Islam” on Tuesday at the Eck Visitors Center, during which he promoted religious tolerance throughout the world. Akyol began the lecture by retelling a recent incident between him

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Constitutional Studies visiting fellow discusses threats to religious freedom

Alexandra Muck | Friday, February 2, 2018

Daniel Mark, visiting fellow with the Constitutional Studies Program, called for a defense of religious freedom in the face of global and national threats during a lecture Thursday. “We have before us the underlying question of whether people have the right to choose and live their faith free of interference by the government or whether the

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Stand against persecution and exclusion

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, February 22, 2017

By now, a wide array of critics of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on refugees — including a passel of United States Catholic bishops — have explained with force and perspicacity how the action amounts to a failure of charity, hospitality and justice. Among the many baneful dimensions of the order is President Trump’s

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Never a Christian nation

Letter to the Editor | Friday, February 19, 2016

In a Viewpoint column, “Threat to our religious roots,” Eddie Damstra claims every American president since Thomas Jefferson has been a Christian, Abraham Lincoln expressed faith in the Christian scriptures and electing a non-religious president would damage the essence of America, although, he generously concedes, “the election of a non-religious president would not destroy America.” Setting

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Confronting ISIS

Gabriel Said Reynolds | Monday, February 8, 2016

Last Thursday night, I had the pleasure of hosting a Dean’s Fellows event at which Reza Aslan, author of “Zealot” and “No God but God,” spoke to a packed house in Jordan Auditorium on the topic of “Islam and ISIS.” When all the seats were filled, people began to sit on stairways, or on ledges, or in

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ND-Georgetown project receives $1.1 million grant

Gabriela Malespin | Sunday, September 7, 2014

Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights received a $1.1 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust last month to conduct research on Christian persecution around the world. The project, titled  “Under Caesar’s Sword: How Christian Communities Respond to Repression,” is a joint project with Georgetown University and includes a team of more than fifteen

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Protect moral objections

Brian C. Hall | Thursday, March 27, 2014

Sean Long’s column, “Protect religious freedom,” (March 25) is factually incorrect when it says “the Supreme Court must only decide whether the contraception mandate is constitutional.” The court must also decide whether the mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which Congress passed by nearly unanimous votes in 1993. Hobby Lobby is far more likely

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