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It's important to remember the reason we are able to give thanks. Without the Pilgrims we wouldn't have Thanksgiving – or ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

A federal appeals court has ruled that religious parents in Maryland can’t opt their kids out of classroom lessons involving LGBTQ+-inclusive books. Three sets of parents – who are Muslim, Jewish, and ...

Thomas Jipping is a Senior Legal Fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. State agencies are increasingly using adherence to gender ideology as a condition for otherwise ...

Authors and illustrators of the controversial LGBTQ+ children's books at the center of Friday's Supreme Court ruling blasted the decision as "discriminatory and harmful" in a joint statement. The ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

On Thursday, Jan. 16, President Joe Biden will perform one of his last acts in office by issuing a decree extolling the importance of religious freedom throughout our nation's history. For many ...

Buzz Thomas is a retired Baptist minister and professor of constitutional law as well as a member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors. "The fondness of magistrates to foster Christianity has done it ...

(RNS) — Earlier this summer, I met a brave activist from Myanmar visiting Washington, D.C., to shine a light on religious persecution unfolding in his country. As a member of the Chin ethnic group and ...

In a commencement ceremony at a Catholic university, the justice said that fundamental principles were in peril at universities and American society. By Adam Liptak Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned ...