Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Australia's same-sex marriage referendum: Sydney clergy blast 'extraordinary use of church money' after diocese's $1m donation to 'no' camp
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Australia: Marriage ballot participation rate passes Irish referendum
(Michelle Grattan, The Conversation)
Sydney Anglican diocese donates $1m to no campaign for same-sex marriage vote
(Michael McGowan, The Guardian)
Methodist church stops all weddings until they can marry same sex couples
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Did you know Mormons dominate competitive dancing?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Save the clergy parsonage allowance!
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Court says tax code's parsonage allowance is unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Satanists are using videogames like Minecraft to practice their religion
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Christian women gather on National Mall for day of prayer
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Austria’s new anti-burqa law isn’t quite working as intended
(Rick Noack, The Washington Post)
Denmark is supporting the ban on burqas
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Denmark set to ban the burqa despite fears for religious freedom
(Teis Jensen, The Independent)
O'Rourke leading push to protect Johnson Amendment
(KRWG)
Federal judge strikes down church housing tax break
(Emily Zantow, Courthouse News Service)
Federal judge again rules housing exemption for clergy unconstitutional
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Federal judge strikes down tax-free housing for clergy
(Scott Bauer, Religion News Service)
Trump gives relief to religious Obamacare objectors
(Hannah C. Smith, Deseret News)
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson sues to block Trump’s rules over contraception access
(Jessica Lee, The Seattle Times)
US pastor Andrew Brunson marks 1 year imprisonment in Turkey
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Turkey: USCIRF delegation visits imprisoned U.S. citizen Pastor Andrew Brunson
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
EVENT, 10 October 2017: Lantos Rule of Law Lecture
(Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others, Dean Vali Nasr and the Conflict Management Program of Johns Hopkins University)
Tens of thousands turn out for Myanmar interfaith rally to pray for peace in Rakhine
(Channel News Asi)
Monday, 9 October 2017
Law and religion round-up – 8th October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Robert George reflects on Trump admin's latest religious liberty moves
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Is religious affiliation a private matter? JR20 v Facebook Ireland
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Advocates sue Trump Administration for failing to provide information on Muslim ban waiver process
(Press Release, MuslimAdvocates.org)
The truth and fiction of Adam and Eve
(Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times)
FOIA lawsuit seeks information on case-by-case waiver of travel ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
'Here, we are united': A Puerto Rico church offers comfort after Hurricane Maria
(Elissa Nadworny, NPR)
'Ask a Muslim anything'
(Anthony Brooks, NPR)
Pence in Las Vegas: 'We are united in our resolve to end such evil'
(Laurel Wamsley, NPR)
Pence left game after player knelt during anthem
(Jim Denison, Christian Headlines)
Republican Illinois governor OKs state funds for abortion
(Samantha Gobba, Christian Headlines)
Thousands of Christians gathered in D.C. for prayer and worship event
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
President Trump postpones moving U.S. embassy to Jerusalem
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Free speech and Friday Night Lights
(Bonnie Pritchett, Christian Headlines)
Oxford Univ. student union bans Christian Union, calls Christianity 'excuse for homophobia'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Anger as Oxford college bans Christian group from freshers' fair
(Caroline Davies, The Guardian)
Reviving the churches of rural America
(Eric Metaxas, The Christian Post)
Tens of thousands gather for controversial prayer event in Poland
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Church of England's equality law exemptions allow for 'abuse, homophobia and sexism' says bishop
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
For global 'peripheries,' poverty can lead to online exploitation
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Why this young woman spoke up against 'Men for Choice'
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Apostasy review – faith and fellowship in potent account of hidden world of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)
Shalom, Canvey! Welcome to the promised land
(Joanne O'Connor, The Guardian)
Rape and slavery was lure for UK Isis recruits with history of sexual violence
(Mark Townsend, The Guardian)
Taking on bigotry, the Air Force got it right this time
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)
Two Sundays, two mass shootings: Why do bad things happen to good people?
(Holly Meyer, Religion News Service)
How Gal Gadot became queen of the Jews
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS: Martini Judaism)
Holy spirits: Closed churches find second life as breweries
(Dake Kang, Religion News Service)
On the eighth day, man created beer- breweries popping up in old churches
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
In Las Vegas as before, spontaneous shrines bring healing after horror
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Sermon on the Strip: ‘Where is God?’
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
For Native Americans, a river is more than a ‘person,’ it is also a sacred place
(Rosalyn R. LaPier, The Conversation)
Buddhist nationalists and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar part 1: an introduction to the current crisis
(Michael Jerryson, Abby Kulisz, and Sarah Seniuk, OUPblog Religion)
How Buddhism is being used to justify violence in Myanmar
(Matthew Wills, JSTOR)
Myanmar cardinal defends country’s embattled leader
(Catholic News Service)
Segregation fans fears in Myanmar's Rakhine
(Kyaw Soe Oo, Reuters)
Satanist wins transfer of her abortion rights case to the Missouri Supreme Court
(Max Londberg, Kansas City Star)
Christianity and secular politics in Liberia
(Daily Observer)
LHC’s verdict on Christian Divorce Act challenged
(Hassaan Ahmed, Pakistan Today)
Khatm-e-Nabuwwat oath: Fazl claims credit for defending religious law
(The Express Tribune)
Kansas acting as ‘religious police’ in mandating vaccine for grandson, couple argue
(Tomy Rizzo, Kansas City Star)
Pune students ‘draft law to protect inter-caste, inter-religious marriages’
(Alifiya Khan, The Indian Express)
The Hanson effect: how hate seeps in and damages us all
(Denis Muller, The Conversation)
After generations in the shadows, the intersex rights movement has a message for the world
(Nora Caplan-Bricker, The Washington Post)
Souls and the guns of America
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Preaching about guns? Get political!
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Trump reverses Obama rule on birth control
(Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic)
Of all the contraceptive mandate stories out there, very few quoted religious folks
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
BBC and The New York Times: Who listened to Catholics who prayed at Poland's borders?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Is the United States one of seven countries that ‘allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy?’
(Michelle Ye Hee Lee, The Washington Post)
A Spanish mosque's ties to terror
(Lauren Frayer, National Public Radio)
Radicalization in Belgium: 'It will take years to fix'
(Doris Pundy, Deutsche Welle)
Chabad feuds with Jewish leaders over cozy ties to Eastern European autocrats
(Lili Bayer and Larry Cohler-Esses, Forward)
Islam most common State religion, but many governments give Christianity privileges: Pew
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Catholics jointly with Orthodox believers will restore Orthodox churches in Syria
(Interfax-Religion)
October 8: Sessions issues memo on religious freedom, “thoughts and prayers” for Las Vegas [and more]
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
What's missing from our 'evil' debate
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Ogden church converted into drug, alcohol rehab center
(Associated Press)
Jerusalem cancels ‘Space Week’ events after Ultra-Orthodox pressure
(Aiden Pink, Forward)
Religious liberty or discrimination?
(Matt Ford, The Atlantic)
After Mexico’s earthquakes, ‘faith opens doors to psychological care’
(Melissa Vida, Catholic News Service)
Brothers of Charity euthanasia controversy could have far-reaching implications
(Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency)
FFRF wins major housing allowance challenge (again)
(Press Release, Freedom From Religion Foundation)
Claim of fraudulent luring into conversion to Christianity dismissed on ecclesiastical abstention grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court dismisses challenge to "In God We Trust" on currency
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 8 October 2017
Exponential growth pushes the Amish into new places like Licking, Mo.
(Jesse Bogan, St. Louis Post Dispatch)
Poles pray en masse at border; some see anti-Muslim agenda
(Vanessa Gera and Karel Janicek, Associated Press)
Polish Catholics gather at border for vast rosary prayer event
(Joanna Berendt and Megan Specia, The New York Times)
HB1523: Business as usual as controversial religious freedom law is enacted
(Isabelle Altman, The Dispatch)
Can publicly traded companies have religious beliefs?
(Wesley J. Smith, National Review)
Catholic leader says Egypt needs to fight fundamentalism
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Church in Bangladesh working with other faith communities to welcome pope
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Can publicly held corporations have religion but not morals?
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump Administration expands contraceptive mandate exemptions for religious and moral objectors
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Attorney General issues guidance on protection of religious liberty
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Defense Department drops training material references to Southern Poverty Law Center
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
DOJ says Title VII does not cover transgender discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saturday, 7 October 2017
Entombed' British man loses legal bid to end his own life
(Stuff.co.nz)
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