Vermont joins Oregon in hating Christians, going after not those wishing to adopt but those who want to give children a foster home while their parents get their acts together (a majority of the cases; I’ll put aside other types of reasons like parental deaths for now).
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Religious Liberty
Inventing Human Rights To Erase Religious Freedom
by John Klar
I lack confidence that very many legislators will even read, let alone heed, this legal opinion as to why Proposal 4 is a complete waste of taxpayer resources, and so I am writing this opinion directly to Vermonters. This Proposal, which purports to expand existing constitutional rights to a list of novel protected classes, is not … Read more
New York Law Attacks Religious Freedom
by John Klar
A New York statute targeting Chick-fil-A for its Christian faith turns American history—and Constitutional law—upside down. The “Rest Stop Restaurant Act” seeks to compel food service providers to stay open seven days a week in publicly-owned rest areas and other facilities, or be denied contracts to provide services.
Fired School Teacher’s Day In Court: School Can’t Compel Him to Use Preferred Pronouns
If you’ve forgotten who Peter Vlaming is, he’s a French Teacher in Virginia who (in 2018) was removed for refusing to address a Transgender student by their preferred gender/pronoun. Vlaming was accused of bullying and discrimination and let go. He sued on religious and free speech grounds.
This’ll Be Fun: Satanic Group Claims Abortion Ban Violates Their Religious Freedom
My first question, after reading the headline “Court rejects Satanic Temple’s claim that Texas abortion ban violates ‘religious freedom,’” was, does the left want these folks playing so publicly on their team? Satanists are claiming that aborting babies is a religious right (by which they must mean rite).
19 State AGs Back Religious Liberty Case But Mine Isn’t One of Them
You know, for a guy who appears to be warming up his engine for a run at the white house (as a Republican), he is missing a lot of free meals. By that, I mean opportunities to hook Republicans from a primary voting base that shies away from CNN or CNBC.
Religious Intolerance at The University of New Hampshire (UNH)
UNH typically gets good marks from groups like FIRE for free speech that, in my opinion, they do not deserve. UNH may put policies in writing that sell a commitment to open and free expression, but the entire campus culture stands on the intolerance baked into identity politics.
If a $500 Mill Religious Exemption Settlement is a Wake-Up Call to Employers, How About States Like Maine?
Maine passed a law abrogating religious exemptions for childhood immunizations. Passed before the Chinese Flu Plandemic, it became effective in 2021 and has since cut the number of exemption requests in half. We’ve posited that this is an unconstitutional violation, and now we may have some backup.
Maine Prohibited Religious or Philosophical Objections to “Immunization”
So much happens that it is easy to miss things. Like a new Maine law signed in 2019 that removed Religious or Philosophical Objections to “Immunization.” This predated COVID, but after experiencing how the “government” handled that, is anyone else concerned?
SCOTUS: “Maine Cannot Exclude Religious Schools from Tuition-Assistance Program”
Democrats are pissed. The US Supreme Court has broken out that constitution-thingy and rained on their education monopoly parade. How so? It has been a long-standing policy for states to exclude religious schools from their tuitioning programs, but this has been ruled unconstitutional.
Fight for Everyone’s Right to Stand, Kneel, Pray, and Speak on the Public Sidewalk
by Beth Scaer
On June 10, 2014, NH Governor Maggie Hassan, now a US Senator, signed an unconstitutional buffer zone bill into law that allows an abortion business to designate up to 25 feet of the public sidewalk and street as a no-free-speech zone where even silent prayer is banned.
SAU16/Exeter: Court Costs Piling Up, What are They Trying to Hide?
Seacoast Online is reporting that SAU16 has expended more than $28,000 in legal costs in less than six months. I’ve been wondering how much money they were spending on legal services to defend all of the court cases filed in this district.
Kissing Religious Liberty (And the Rest of It) Goodbye
Pro-government factions are using this Coronavirus to constrain the people. Not temporarily, but forever. These are not necessary measures to address a crisis. They are test runs for foundational policy—a new Constitution of constraint.