Tag / freedom of religion
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No, Everything Won’t Be OK
The election of Donald Trump to the most powerful office in the world is cataclysmic. I won’t speak to the physical insecurity that many Americans and people around the world are feeling—many women, racial and religious minorities, denizens of the Middle East and the Baltics and Central and South America. I won’t speak for environmentalists,…
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State-Sanctioned Discrimination
BY JOHN NIKITAS Last February, both chambers of Arizona’s state legislature narrowly passed a bill expanding the scope of Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act to cover individuals and corporations as well as religious institutions. Although Arizona’s Republican Governor, Jan Brewer, eventually vetoed SB 1062, exploring the politics surrounding the bill yields some interesting insights regarding…
