Meredith Thompson
Posts by Meredith Thompson (page 7)
Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission: Will the Supreme Court Grant the Constitutional Right to Discriminate?
This Tuesday the United States Supreme Case will hear oral arguments on the controversial Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case. In anticipation,... Read More
Gucci Doesn’t Deserve Your Applause
If you haven’t yet heard, starting in 2018 the luxury fashion brand Gucci will stop selling items made with fur from minks, foxes, rabbits,... Read More
Bedeviling the Anti-Choice Crusade
For antiabortion crusaders hell bent on chipping away at women’s right to choose, it really does seem like the devil is in the details.... Read More
Guggenheim Missed the Point: Freedom of Expression Shouldn’t Trump Cruelty
Last week the Guggenheim Museum in New York announced it would remove three exhibits from its current show, “Art and China After 1989: Theater... Read More
The Curious Case of the Missing—and Reappearing—Government Climate Change Data
Last week climate scientist Peter Gleick reported that the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Science Explorer—a taxpayer-funded online database for the public to browse... Read More
Urgent Need or Religious Exceptionalism? Texas Churches Sue FEMA for Reimbursement
Three Texas churches are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for excluding them from public assistance after they aided the community during Hurricane... Read More
Oppressive Atheism: In China, Religion Can Be a Form of Activism
China’s governing party, the Communist Party of China (CPC), recently banned the practice of religion for all of its 88+ million members in an... Read More