In the wake of last summer’s Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College v. Burwell decisions, many wondered how corporations…
The zero effect doctrine
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Hobby Lobby and the question for religious freedom
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is arguably the premier scholar of law and religion in the United States. She brings to the…
The Supreme Court’s faith in belief
This summer, the Supreme Court was once again at the center of the American culture wars. The media and many…
The impossibility of religious freedom
In the last week the US Supreme Court has acted in two religious freedom cases (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and…
SCOTUS roundup: Rulings on DOMA and Prop 8
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law…
Everson’s Children
Everson v. Board of Education is considered a landmark of First Amendment jurisprudence. That 1947 case marks the first time…
The world that Smith made
There is much that could be said about the history of the Catholic Church and its dedication to the defense…
Hosanna-Tabor in the religious freedom Panopticon
Michel Foucault famously describes Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon as a “cruel, ingenious cage” to be understood not as a “dream building…
Is religion special?
In Religion Dispatches, Katherine Stewart asks what the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. E.E.O.C. decision can tell us…
“The Church”
The last sentence of the Court’s opinion in Hosanna-Tabor announces the dogma that binds the majority opinion. Affirming for the…