Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Originalism is broad enough to include arguments for a constitutional right to same-sex marriage [Updated with a link to Larry Solum's comments on our exchange]
(Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Is there an originalist case for a right to same-sex marriage?
(Orin Kerr, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Top Catholics and Evangelicals: Gay marriage worse than divorce or cohabitation
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
France top court rules same-sex French-Moroccan couple may marry
(Taylor Gillan, Jurist)
Washington Post story on same-sex marriage in Oklahoma is long on emotion, short on religious insight
(Bobby Ross, Jr., GetReligion)
Court rejects college’s attempt to exclude anti-gay leafleting
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Facebook admits censoring posts and comments about political corruption - OpEd
(Jim Kouri, Eurasia Review)
Hindu group wants Fox TV to apologize for distorting Hinduism
(Eurasia Review)
‘Whatever the Islamic State wants, we should give them’
(Suha Maayeh, David Kenner, Foreign Policy)
Tokyo, leaders of all religions pray for hostages held by Islamic State
(AsiaNews.it)
Christian leader thanks to Obama for defending freedom of religion
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Korean religious leaders in Pyongyang to pray for peace
(AsiaNews.it)
Jabhat al-Nusra and the Druze of Idlib Province
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
'Get' case heads to Brooklyn Supreme Court
(Stephanie Butnick, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
For one rabbi, the personal is political when it comes to immigration
(Rachel Van Thyn, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
For Jews in France, 2015 isn't the 1930s
(Tal Keinan, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Stop at three? That's not what the Pope said: A remark to journalists about "rabbits" concerned responsible parenthood, not numbers
(Caroline Farrow, MercatorNet)
Remembering Auschwitz
(Michael Cook, MercatorNet)
India: Distribution of Population by Religions
(India Census)
IAS Evangelist threatens to move court after Tamil Nadu bans him from holding religious meets
(FP Staff, First Post)
Islamophobia has turned into an industry, says Turkey’s top cleric
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Was Turkey Christian in 1999 or in 2005?
(Serkan Demirtaş, Hürriyet Daily News)
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Archbishop in Niger: 'We must reconstruct hearts and minds' after Charlie Hebdo protests
(Lucinda Borkett-Jones, Christian Today - World)
Charlie Hebdo raises the question: Is hate speech protected in France?
(Jill Lawless, Huff Post Religion)
NYC defends ban on churches in schools, despite mayor’s claims
(Bob Smietana, Facts & Trends)
The Guardian debunks Paris synagogue siege skeptics
(Yair Rosenberg, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Facebook blocks content deemed insulting to Islam in Turkey
(Michael Pizzi, Al Jazeera America)
Is religion why docs are against assisted suicide/dying?
(Leslie Kane, Medscape)
Texas considers amendment to religious freedom act
(Angie Beavin, KXAN)
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says he will continue to recognize ban on same-sex marriage
(Mike Cason, AL.com)
City employee allegedly fired for 'speaking in tongues' sues to get job back
(John Marzulli, New York Daily News)
Retreat of multiculturalism 'is a myth'
(Eurasia Review)
Tibetan monk who refused to criticize Dalai Lama is freed from jail
(Radio Free Asia)
Should the West take on Nigeria's terrorists? Bishops say yes
(Catholic News Agency)
Journalist documents anti-Semitism in a Swedish city
(NPR)
Europe's Jewish leader fears 'exodus' over rising extremism
(Agence France-Presse)
S.F. Catholic Church priest bans girls as altar servers
(Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle)
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Their blood cries out to God
(George Faithful, author of Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust, OUPblog Religion)
UK Jews and Muslims team up against hate
(Simon Hooper, Al Jazeera)
What role does spirituality play in inner strength or resourcefulness?
(Marc Margolius, Big Questions Online)
Gunmen attack Corinthia Hotel in Libya; at least 10 die
(Jomana Karadsheh and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN)
Facebook complies with Turkish court order to block pages insulting to prophet
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
2015 is shaping up to be a significant year for religion at the Supreme Court
(David Masci, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Female GITMO guards file discrimination complaints after judges grant prisoners' accommodation requests
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
World leaders join Auschwitz survivors at 70th anniversary of Liberation
(Wiktor Szary and Wojciech Zurawski, The Jewish Daily Forward)
'No German identity without Auschwitz'
(The Local (Germany))
Introducing… the Human Rights Information Project
(Adam Wagner, UK Human Rights Blog)
President Pranab Mukherjee's Republic Day address - 'Religion can't be a cause of conflict'
(The India Times)
What Christian lawyers are facing in Canada: Religious intolerance in the name of diversity
(Eric Metaxas, BreakPoint Commentaries)
Facebook blocks pages insulting Mohammed
(GANT Daily)
Facebook said to block pages critical of Muhammad to avoid shutdown in Turkey
(Sebnem Arsu and Mark Scott, The New York Times)
Battles continue outside Kobani after Kurds claim victory
(Today's Zaman)
Japanese officials meet after purported ISIL hostage threat
(Today's Zaman)
Cemevi fined over unpaid electricity, water bills despite ECtHR ruling
(Today's Zaman)
Second 'gender-abortion' doctor to appear before Crown Court
(Christian Concern)
Anti-LGBT forces strike back with religious freedom bills
(Chris Johnson, Washington Blade)
Saudi’s new King Salman likely to stay the Muslim kingdom’s course
(Oren Dorell, Religion News Service)
Obama wraps up 3-day visit with plea for religious tolerance
(Vikas Pathak, Hindustan Times)
General election non-party campaigning: reporting and record keeping
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
In town hall remarks, Obama urges India to guarantee religious freedom
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Philippine bishops condemn killing of police officers by separatist rebels
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Mormon leaders call for laws that protect religious freedom
(Mormon Newsroom)
In major move, Mormon apostles call for statewide LGBT protections
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, Religion News Service)
Mormon church backs LGBT rights -- with one condition
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Mormon church backs LGBT rights -- with one condition
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
“School Choice Week” galvanizes school voucher opponents
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Boston bombing jury excludes some Catholics
(G. Jeffrey MacDonald, USA Today)
Islamic Jihad takes mediator role between Hamas, Fatah
(Asmaa al-Ghoul, trans. Pascale el-Khoury, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Pakistan's silent partition
(Zehra Abid, Al Jazeera America)
Shia fighters accused of killing civilians in Iraq
(Al Jazeera America)
Holocaust fears, real and manipulated, have shaped Israel
(Tom Segev, Al Jazeera America)
Israel jails Palestinian girl, 14, for throwing stones
(Dalia Hatuqa, Al Jazeera)
Resist or accommodate evil: There is no "third way"
(Jeffery J. Ventrella, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Court to hear ETWN challenge to contraception mandate
(John Eggerton, Multichannel News)
Sundance Film Festival features documentaries on controversial religious groups
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Episcopal land wars in Maryland: So is this waterfront property war story truly doctrine-free or not?
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)
Obama warns India over religious divisions
(Arab News)
Obama warns India on religious divisions
(Colleen Mcain Nelson, The Wall Street Journal)
Study shows Sikhs in America are still victims of misunderstanding and prejudice
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Most Americans are clueless about Sikhs
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
In Washington state, a Tibetan Buddhist nun blazes a trail for other women to follow
(Tracy Simmons, Religion News Service)
El Baradei: 'Islamists mustn't be removed from political arena'
(Middle East Monitor)
New Report: "In Need of a Principled Approach" - Monitoring report on the right to freedom of religion or belief in Turkey, July 2013-June 2014
(The Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) Freedom of Belief Initiative)
"In Need of a Principled Approach" - Monitoring report on the right to freedom of religion or belief in Turkey, July 2013-June 2014
([link to the Report pdf], The Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) Freedom of Belief Initiative)
In parting shot, Obama prods India on religious freedom
(Frank Jack Daniel and Roberta Rampton, Reuters)
Is controversial circumcision ritual dangerous?
(Paul Berger, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Istanbul Municipality launches body for non-Muslim students
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Egypt court overturns decision to ban Hamas
(Ma'an News Agency)
The Catholic Church in Crimea must register according to Russian law
(AsiaNews.it)
Catholic intellectuals come together in Jakarta to boost Church's presence in society
(Royani Lim, AsiaNews.it)
Beijing sends a new flood of Han migrants to Lhasa: Tibetans risk disappearing
(AsiaNews.it)
Zhejiang, Hong Kong journalist arrested for investigating cross demolition
(AsiaNews.it)
Israel's Arab parties to unite for the first time
(Liel Leibovitz, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
French parliament begins debate on euthanasia
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Dutch euthanasia clinic has knuckles rapped over tinnitus death
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
C of E’s first woman bishop consecrated
(Gavin Drake, Church Times)
US Supreme Court to debate the use of new three-drug execution method
(Xavier Symons, BioEdge)
The Middle East's vanishing Christians
(Michael Cook, MercatorNet)
Complaints challenge orders limiting female guards at Gitmo
(Associated Press, Ben Fox, NewsAdvance.com)
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