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Ten years after CA Prop 8, has same-sex marriage affected churches?

May 30, 2018 by Jason Hines

Ten years ago the state of California found itself embroiled in a debate over the nature of marriage. Listed on the ballot for the Fall elections was Proposition 8, which would amend the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman.

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Marriage Tagged With: Proposition 8, Same-Sex Marriage

Charlottesville: Racism in the Mainstream

August 16, 2017 by Jason Hines

Donald Trump - Speech on Charlottesville - August 13 , 2017 - screencapture from WH.gov

  By Jason Hines, Ph.D., J.D. am slightly ashamed and embarrassed that it takes incidents like what happened in Charlottesville yesterday to drive me back into the writer’s chair. I guess the very thing I have criticized has affected me. It becomes monotonous to continue to write 500-1000 words about how everything is going on […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights Tagged With: Charlottesville

Op-Ed: Castile verdict is a nightmare come to life

June 22, 2017 by Jason Hines

By Jason Hines – I’m sitting here without a plan. I do not even have a rough outline of where these thoughts will go. If I have a plan, it is simply to write because the Spectrum Blog needs a post for Thursday morning and there is nothing else I want to talk about. I […]

Filed Under: Legal Issues

Evangelicals’ witness suffers due to political maneuvering

October 10, 2016 by Jason Hines

For almost 40 years Evangelical Christians, under the guise of the Religious Right, courted political power specifically through the Republican Party. As a political group, they have accomplished little of what they desired.

Filed Under: Politics, Religion

Op-Ed: Do Your Homework

July 15, 2016 by Jason Hines

Black Lives Matters Protestors

By Jason Hines, Ph.D., J.D. – One of the unfortunate things about the discussion that occurs whenever a police officer shoots another unarmed Black man is its monotony. I was planning to sit out the debate that would occur around the death of Alton Sterling. The reason I wanted to sit the discussion out is because we always seem to hit the same beats. Black folk say #BlackLivesMatter. The ignorant and the bigots among us say #AllLivesMatter. Before long, someone asks, “What about Black on Black crime?”

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Discrimination, Human Rights Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Crime

Legal Analysis: Zubik petitioners may have pushed argument too far

March 24, 2016 by Jason Hines

Supreme Court - DepositPhotos.com

By Jason Hines, PhD, JD – Prior to 1990, the Supreme Court’s standard in determining whether a law violated a citizen’s free exercise of religion was intimately tied to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. An Adventist, Adele Sherbert, sued to receive unemployment benefits after she was fired from her job because she refused to work on the Sabbath. In the case that now bears her name, Sherbert v. Verner, the Court ruled in her favor, establishing the rule that the government could not substantially burden a citizen’s religious freedom unless the government had a compelling interest and had narrowly tailored the measure to minimize infringement.

Filed Under: Religious Institutions, Supreme Court

Opinion: The Spiritual Dimension to the County Clerk’s Refusal to License Same-Sex Marriages

September 9, 2015 by Jason Hines

Davis has made a decision according to her conscience, has had the willingness to not only follow it through, but also to go to jail for it. I am surprisingly both outraged by and sympathetic to her plight. I would love to talk about the legal ramifications of what she is doing (and I still might do that briefly), but tonight my mind turns primarily to the spiritual consequences of Davis’s actions.

Filed Under: Church and State, Marriage Tagged With: christian, Kentucky, Kim Davis, religious freedom, religious liberty, Rowan County, Same-Sex Marriage

The Theology of the Tax Exemption

July 22, 2015 by Jason Hines

Bible and Money, Tax Exemption, religious liberty

By Jason Hines, PhD, JD – Has Christianity in America become so materialistic that we conflate our freedom to worship with our ability to save a dollar?

Filed Under: Economics, Religious Institutions, Tax Exemption Tagged With: 501(c)(3), churches, Tax Exemption

Understanding RFRA: Does Indiana’s New Law Allow Businesses to Discriminate?

April 3, 2015 by Jason Hines

By Jason Hines – This week, Governor Mike Pence held a press conference in order to clarify the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act that has received so much criticism lately.

Filed Under: Church and State, Civil Rights, Constitution, Discrimination, Human Rights, Legal Issues, Marriage Tagged With: Discrimination, Indiana, Mike Pence, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA

Opinion: Playing Political Football with the President’s Faith

February 27, 2015 by Jason Hines

By Jason Hines – Attacks on the President’s faith are an attempt to redefine the constitutional role of religion in American life. Both Senator Santorum and Pastor Graham have established a de facto religious test for the office of President. Why does it matter to Pastor Graham whether President Obama is a Christian? Why does it matter to Senator Santorum that Obama has a phony, unchristian theology? These things matter because to them a person should not be president unless they are Christian. And that Christianity cannot just be any Christianity, but a form of Christianity that is aligned with what they think is correct.

Filed Under: Constitution, Politics, Religion Tagged With: faith, Franklin Graham, President Obama, Rick Santorum

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Biden admin could hand over US control of health emergencies to WHO next week

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The ultimate control over America’s health care and its national sovereignty will be put up for a vote next week at a meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) governing legislative body, the World Health Assembly (WHA).  On May 22-28, 2022, the 75th World Health Assembly will convene at the United Nations […]

Statement on the Leak in Dobbs

The leak was intended to disrupt the processing of the decision and we are not going to dignify the leak or the unidentified leaker by analyzing it prematurely. As a constitutional republic we cannot go down that road without doing severe damage to the institution of the Supreme Court where there must be professional courtesy between the justices and their staffs.

Boston City Hall - photo from Supreme Court Opinion

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that Boston violated 1st Amendment in refusing Christian flag at City Hall

This morning the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Shurtleff v. Boston (Dec’d 5/2/2022) that the city of Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group when it refused to allow them to participate in a city flag raising program.

Active Liberty - a survey of Justice Stephen Breyer's religion clause jurisprudence - Supreme Court

Active Liberty: A Survey of Justice Stephen Breyer’s Religion Clause Decisions

A comprehensive review of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s decisions in Free Exercise and Establishment Clause cases.

Canadian gov’t calculates that expansion of assisted suicide will save taxpayers millions of dollars

In Canada, it is easier for the disabled who do not suffer terminal illness to get approval for assisted suicide than approval for affordable housing. The government has calculated the cost of providing healthcare versus providing assisted suicide.

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An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.

— Roger Williams

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