One-Year Anniversary of Hobby Lobby: How RFRA Was Used and Abused

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Inc. The Court ruled that “closely held” for-profit... Read More
What Is Religious Liberty? The Difference Between Holt and Hobby Lobby

Many humanists are often concerned with questions of religious liberty. How can the freedom from religion, as well as the freedom of religion be... Read More
On the Hill: Four Bills Congress Needs to Pass before the End of 2014

With the 2014 congressional elections fast approaching, Congress is on yet another recess, this one lasting until November 12. In these five weeks Representatives... Read More
Scratching Heads and Knitting Bricks Secularists continue to protest the 'Hobby Lobby' decision

“I think you’re just wasting your time out there,” the customer in line said to me yesterday as I waited for coffee before heading... Read More
Birth Control Bungle: The Supreme Court’s Appalling Ruling on Access to Contraceptives

The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30 joint decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Burwell is yet another... Read More
All in All, I’m Just another Brick in the Wall

On the day the U.S. Supreme Court was to announce its decision in the Hobby Lobby case, I sat huddled around a computer with... Read More
On the Hill: Legislators Introduce Bill to Combat Hobby Lobby Ruling

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which affirmed the ability of for-profit corporations to cite religious... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The Immorality of Others

Last week I looked at some of the financial aspects of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, noting how it will take money out... Read More
Meet the “Pro-Life Generation”

Many people would agree that young minds are impressionable. And while gruesome images of dead human fetuses are likely to upset anyone forced to... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: American Jizya

When Arabs burst out of Mecca and Medina in the seventh century to extend their rule from the Atlantic to the Indus, they devised... Read More