Netherlands Euthanizes 2-Year-Old Child
We have arrived at the stage where the state looks upon an acknowledged, living human being, notes their…
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The Johnson Amendment Handshake: Can the White House Cut a Deal to Cancel a Law?
Put aside the furious argument over church politicking. The real fight inside the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is about something far cleaner, colder,…
Chasing Shadows on Ararat: Why Faith Doesn’t Need a Wooden Boat
Noah’s Ark is in the news again but it’s too early to anchor your faith in an archaeological…
The Outer Limits of Religious Accommodation: Nasal Swab Test Refusing Hospital Worker Asks Supreme Court to Decide
Detwiler v. Mid-Columbia Medical Center
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“Faithful Unto Death”: The Theology of Vaccine Refusal – Was It Faith, Fear, or Legal Strategy?
The pandemic forced a difficult question: when does genuine faith end and strategic religious language begin?'''
The Court Beyond the State: Yom Kippur and the Limits of Law
Faith begins where the law ends.
Faith, Fact, and Pretext: Further Examination of the Fetal Cell Argument Against COVID-19 Vaccines
A follow-up on yesterday’s article.
The Vaccine Paradox: Why the Fetal Cell Argument is Inaccurate and Needs to Be Retired
How decades of medical history exposed the bad-faith rhetoric behind one of the biggest arguments in the vaccine culture war.
Inconsistent Liberty: How the Ninth Circuit Both Wields and Wrecks Employment Division v. Smith within 72 Hours
Federal appellate jurisprudence often demands a strong stomach, yet rarely has a single court exhibited such breathtaking intellectual acrobatics in seventy-two hours. The bone…
Who Speaks for the Children?
Photo: iStockPhoto.com Nearly everyone in the Lindsay Clancy case has an advocate. Clancy has defense lawyers arguing that postpartum psychosis left her without criminal…