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Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal in Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Governance Dispute
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a district court decision that dismissed…
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Canada’s "Combatting Hate Act": Legislative Expansion of Criminal Speech Laws
Bill C-9, the *Combatting Hate Act*, has cleared the Canadian Senate, instituting expansive new criminal penalties for hate-motivated…
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U.S. Brands Nigeria a Religious Freedom Violator as Christian Death Toll Climbs
Before dawn in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, the roosters do not get to finish. The men arrive with rifles…
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The Great Northern Shift: How Canada’s Bill C-9 Reconfigures the Landscape of Hate Speech
As an American, my baseline for "hate speech" is comfortably anchored in the First Amendment.
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Borrowed Light: The Faith Beneath the American Welcome
The plane lands and the visitor steps into a country she was warned about.
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Pepperdine and Founders’ First Freedom Bring the Religious Freedom Conversation Home to Malibu
The view from Pepperdine’s law school in Malibu runs straight out to the Pacific.
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An Orthodox Jew Prayed at Home. The Supreme Court Will Decide if He Can Sue the City That Stopped Him.
A petition in Grand v. City of University Heights asks whether a citizen must lose before a municipal…
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Juneteenth: Two and a Half Years Late, and Paid in Blood
Juneteenth marks the day emancipation stopped being a promise. The army that delivered it cost the country hundreds…
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Juneteenth: Two and a Half Years Late, and Paid in Blood
Picture: General Order 3 – June 19, 1865 On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stood in…