Tag: religious freedom
Wiretap: ‘Brusque’ Abramson apparently not even worth unequal pay
The New York Times fired its first woman editor, Jill Abramson, and the story goes deeper than a personnel decision at the world's preeminent newspaper.
Littwin: The ‘war on women’ will get hotter
It was no coincidence that the three justices most actively engaged in the Hobby Lobby contraceptive-mandate argument were the three women justices.
It's not just...
Wiretap: Hobby Lobby goes to Washington
It's the biggest case of the year, as the Supreme Court hears arguments about Hobby Lobby's attempt to use a religious exemption to avoid including birth control in its health plans.
Wiretap: At least now they’re trying
Cory Gardner's entrance into the race to take on Mark Udall is a huge political story. The moribund elephant that is the state Republican Party just flapped its ears and lifted its trunk for the first time in forever.
Wiretap: Arizona will likely kill its anti-gay religious freedom bill
They passed the bill and then came the uproar. Republican senators called on Gov. Jan Brewer to veto it. Business leaders came out against it. The Super Bowl committee came out against it.
Wiretap: Gazette blasts away at honey badger Gessler
He's scandal plagued. He doesn't show up for debates. He ridicules the other candidates. Enough of the honey badger! said the Gazette.
Lawmakers shoot down bill that could have allowed religious student groups...
State lawmakers have narrowly killed a bill that would have freed up state money to religious student groups – even those demonstrating prejudice in picking their leaders.
Colorado judge: Cake baker discriminated against gay couple
DENVER -- Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer ruled today that Lakewood baker Jack Phillips discriminated against a gay couple when he refused to bake...
Catholic Bishops launch national ‘religious freedom’ campaign
Catholic Bishops, one of the biggest opponents of the federal government’s decision to require health insurance companies to cover birth control as a preventive service, released a proclamation this week “calling for every priest, parish and layperson to participate in ‘great national campaign’ to defend religious liberty, which they said is ‘under attack, both at home and abroad,’” The New York Times reports.
Americans reject religious freedom argument regarding birth control
Despite the Catholic Church’s efforts to frame the federal government’s decision requiring health insurers to cover birth control as a matter of “religious freedom,” a new poll shows that almost 70 percent of the Americans believe the decision was a “matter of women’s health, not religious freedom.”