On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared that domestic and gang violence are not legitimate grounds for asylum. Sessions’ ruling overturns a 2016 immigration appeals court decision that granted asylum to a Salvadoran woman whose... Read More

Please welcome the new legal intern with the Appignani Humanist Legal Center, William Gogoel! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? During high school I worked various jobs over the summers, from temping in... Read More

On June 4, the US Supreme Court issued a 7-2 ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission on behalf of the plaintiff, Jack Phillips, a baker and a devout Christian who refused... Read More

The recent situation between Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Chaplain Father Patrick Conroy was very confusing. Initially Ryan had a staff member request that Conroy resign—which the Father dutifully did—but no written or verbal... Read More

#MeToo Finds Preacher Who Sanctioned Abuse and Demonized Divorce Ok, ladies, ready to be submissive to your man in every way you can? Ready to pray the domestic violence away? Yeah, me neither. Paige Patterson... Read More

Between 2012 and 2015, Morris County, New Jersey awarded twelve religious institutions $4.6 million in taxpayer money to repair or maintain church buildings. But in a victory for the state’s taxpayers, the New Jersey Supreme... Read More

On April 11 President Trump signed a pair of anti-sex trafficking bills into law that target online platforms. The House bill, called the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA, and the Senate’s Stop Enabling... Read More