Law and Religion Headlines
Sunday, 6 September 2015
Egyptian billionaire offers to buy an island off Italy or Greece to rehouse refugees
(Louisa Loveluck, The Telegraph)
Dispatches: Refugees march out of Hungary
(Lydia Gall, Human Rights Watch)
Saturday, 5 September 2015
Countering the hate: 'People are getting involved in tremendous ways'
(Interview with Manfred Schmidt, Spiegel Online International)
Who are ‘cultural Catholics’?
(David Masci, Pew Research Center FactTank)
Dark Germany, bright Germany: Which side will prevail under strain of refugees?
(Spiegel Online International)
Where religious freedom ends: Why a Kentucky clerk has no right to deny gay marriage licenses
(Damon Linker, The Week)
Squaring religious freedom with gay marriage
(Charles C. Haynes, Providence Journal)
Europe’s migrant crisis: Merkel the bold
(The Economist)
Gay marriage and religion: The impressive recalcitrance of Kim Davis
(S.M., The Economist [Democracy in America: American politics])
Conflicts are driven by religious intolerance, says PM Modi
(Anil Kumar Ojha, Hindustan Times)
Issues to be discussed at PACE’s autumn session revealed
(Anakhanum Khidayatova, Trend News Agency)
Jail time for Kentucky County Clerk
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Understanding the Jewish High Holy Days
(Patheos Blog: Community by Deily)
The Doha Congress: Negotiating a return of the Iraqi Baath Party?
(Aron Lund, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))
Assisted dying: Archbishop Welby urges MPs to reject bill
(BBC News)
7th Circuit again upholds contraceptive mandate accommodation for religious non-profits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
NY education commissioner grants religious exemption from MMR vaccination requirement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Art across the early Abrahamic religions
(Robert Gregg, OUPblog Religion)
Migrant crisis: Austria and Germany await more arrivals
(BBC News)
David Cameron: UK to accept 'thousands' more Syrian refugees
(BBC News)
The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)
Europe’s refugee crisis is America’s problem, too
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)
Legally, ‘God’s authority’ is a tough issue
(Robert Barnes and Katie Zezima, The Washington Post)
Friday, 4 September 2015
ISIL recruits IT specialists, doctors, engineers in Uzbekistan
(Interfax-Religion)
Sokurov warns Europe against medley of ethnic groups and religious cultures
(Interfax-Religion)
Nepal: Religious freedom tested
(Persecution Blog)
KY clerk case didn't have to go down this way
(One News Now)
Kentucky dispute shows need for thoughtful marriage license conversation
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty Blog)
Refugees and the EU: Europe is finally confronting the migrant crisis
(The Economist)
What we learned from the arrest of Kim Davis
(Dr. Michael L. Brown, One News Now)
Five federal judges rebuke court: don’t tell the Little Sisters how to be Catholic
(The Catholic World Report)
Are the Schools Equality PACT reforms, to protect human rights, unconstitutional?
(Michael Nugent, Michael Nugent)
Kim Davis's conscientious decision
(R.R. Reno, First Things)
How Kim Davis’s imprisonment is a win for religious liberty
(Brandan Robertson, Patheos Blog: Revangelical)
Why Kim Davis’s refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses is legally different from a ‘sanctuary city’s’ refusal to cooperate with federal immigration law
(Jonathan A. Adler, The Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy)
Justice Scalia explained why Kim Davis should issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or find a new job
(Jonathan H. Adler, The Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy)
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis jailed for her conscience
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)
Kim Davis stands her ground - in jail
(Mike Wynn and Chris Kenning, The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal)
A new legal cloud over same-sex marriage in Kentucky?
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Judge jails Rowan clerk for contempt; 5 deputies pledge to issue marriage licenses Friday morning
(John Cheves, Kentucky.com)
Republican candidates split over Kentucky clerk in gay marriage case
(Reporting by Emily Stephenson in Washington and Alana Wise in New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker, Reuters)
In Kentucky college town, license issue divides gay and church communities
(James Higdon, The Washington Post)
Jailed clerk's attorney: Marriage licenses for gays are void
(Adam Beam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Recalcitrant Kentucky county clerk jailed for contempt; deputies will issue marriage licenses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy)
32 magistrates in NC have refused to perform marriages under new religious objection law
(TWC News Staff & Associated Press, Time Warner Cable News)
Oregon judge refuses to perform same-sex marriages, cites First Amendment right to religious freedom
(Bryan Denson, The Oregonian)
Tenn. judge refuses to grant straight couple a divorce because … gay marriage
(Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post)
Tennessee judge says Obergefell ended state jurisdiction over contested divorces
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge won't divorce straight couple because gay marriage is legal
(Simon McCormack, Huffington Post)
Texas clinics challenge abortion limits (UPDATED)
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Chinese human rights lawyer could face spying charges
(Tom Phillips, The Guardian)
Hungarian leader rebuked for saying Muslim migrants must be blocked ‘to keep Europe Christian’
(Robert Mackey, The New York Times)
10th Circuit denies en banc review, over 5 dissents, in contraceptive mandate case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pakistan's fading Parsi community looks abroad
(Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse)
At a Berlin church, Muslim refugees converting in droves
(Kirsten Grieshaber, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Europe's Christian roots threatened by Muslims, Hungarian Prime Minister says amid refugee crisis
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Amid refugee crisis, Hungary prime minister says Muslims not welcome
(Al Jazeera America)
Refugees threaten Europe's Christian roots, says Hungary's Orban
(Paul Carrel, Reuters)
The refugee crisis that isn't
(Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch)
Migrant chaos mounts while divided Europe stumbles for response
(Steven Erlanger and Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times)
Is the migration crisis killing the European dream?
(Douglas Murray, Gatestone Institute)
Judges predict foes will win on birth control mandate
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Puritanically radical, radically puritanical: Saudi Arabia’s religious cleansing policy expands through ME
(Catherine Shakdam, Mint Press News)
Death threats target Turkey's Protestants
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Scotland much more secularized than US - half Christians - American survey finds
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Palestinian teachers, students strike in Israel over school budget cuts
(Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America)
Islamic State blows up tower tombs in Syria's Palmyra: antiquities chief
(Kinda Makeih, Reuters)
Moroccans vote in local election test for ruling Islamists
(Aziz El Yaakoubi, Reuters)
Archbishop of Canterbury issues statement on migrant crisis
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Oregon judge creates legal defense fund after refusal to perform same-sex marriages
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
American ideals draw U.S. citizens to settle in Israel’s West Bank
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Court dismisses no-fly retaliation case
(Press Release, Center for Constitutional Rights)
No damage remedy available to Muslims placed on no-fly list for retaliatory reasons
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Constable applicant can sue over religious and ideological questions in job interview
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Civil rights groups sue county over meals for Muslim inmates
(Paradise Afshar, Miami Herald)
ACLU of Florida and CAIR Florida file lawsuit challenging policy denying religious meals to Muslim inmates at Miami-Dade jails
(Press Release, ACLU of Florida)
Suit seeks halal meals in Florida jails
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Churches as charities: some basics
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Facebook and calling priests "Father"
(Nathan O’Halloran, S.J., First Things)
Producers vs. scribes? The influence of the cultural left
(Mark Movsesian, First Things)
America’s class divide: Scribes v. Producers
(John O. McGinnis, Library of Law and Liberty)
Will progressives require doctors to kill?
(Wesley J. Smith, First Things)
OSCE states get detailed info about Azerbaijan's position on Karabakh conflict
(Elmira Tariverdiyeva, Trend News Agency)
Four myths about the status of women in the early church
(Susan E. Hylen, OUPblog Religion)
Death threats target Turkey's Protestants
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Is compromise possible in jailed Kentucky Clerk case? Ryan T. Anderson's take
(The Daily Signal)
Compromise could fix Kentucky's wedding license feud, but the Supreme Court is not yet ready to decide
(Compiled by Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Thursday, 3 September 2015
Baku court sentences five IS members to many years in jail
(Interfax-Religion)
Congressman Garamendi concerned by India's religious freedom violations
(Arvin Valmuci, Sikh Siyasat News)
Time to take marriage seriously?
(Carl R. Trueman, First Things)
Federal judges criticize ruling against Little Sisters of the Poor
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Five Judges rebuke 'clearly and gravely wrong' birth control mandate ruling against nuns
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post Politics)
Citing Pope Francis, bishops call on Congress to renew religious freedom commission
(The Catholic Sun)
Oklahoma Wesleyan University now 2nd Christian college to leave CCCU over hiring of gay professors
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
'Islam teaches love and peace, not hate and violence,' Muslim Americans declare in 100 billboards across the US
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
US Muslims hope new billboards reclaim Islam's message
(Rasha Madkour, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Radicalisation play cancelled by theatre after concerns about 'extremist agenda'
(Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian)
Iranian family seeking asylum in Germany convert to Christianity
(The Guardian)
Death toll in IS Yemen mosque attack rises to 32
(Agence France-Presse)
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