Religious Freedom Archives - Page 5 of 19
June 17th, 2022
A Jewish congregation in Florida is challenging that state's new abortion law on religious freedom grounds. They say that in Judaism, women not only have the right to an abortion, sometimes it is required.
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June 6th, 2022
It’s Pride Month, and you know what that means: parades, fairs, parties, and of course, rainbow corporate logos. But what happens when the employees of these companies disagree with that stance?
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May 19th, 2022
A Kansas city council recently voted to add 'In God We Trust' decals to police vehicles, on the condition that other faiths could do the same. Now everyone from atheists to Satanists want their logos on the PD vehicles.
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May 6th, 2022
In a national first, Oklahoma just voted to make it illegal to offer a nonbinary option on birth certificates. Politicians say that God created two genders, but LGBTQ and nonbinary advocates argue its not so simple.
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April 29th, 2022
In a wave of book bans in school libraries across the country, one Florida man is trying to ban a book he says shows wildly inappropriate graphic content like rape, slavery, and infanticide: the Holy Bible.
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April 4th, 2022
A teacher at a private Catholic school says she was discriminated against when the school fired her for her same-sex marriage, arguing that the school ignores other sinning teachers and only focused on her.
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February 28th, 2022
One Christian website designer took a case a case against Colorado to the Supreme Court, arguing her state's anti-discrimination laws, which protect LGBTQ people, violate her freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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February 3rd, 2022
One Tennessee school board voted to ban Holocaust comic 'Maus' for that book's depiction of cartoon mouse nudity and naughty words. Should schools ban books that depict unsavory things, regardless of context?
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January 24th, 2022
A Jewish couple is suing Tennessee after a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency refused to assist them. Should religious adoption agencies be able to turn down potential parents because they're a different faith?
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