If somebody says, ‘I’m willing to die for you by defending my country, my unit,’ we should allow them to keep their articles of faith. Jaskirat Singh The United States Trend of Discrimination Against Sikhs Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world, with approximately thirty million followers of the faith worldwide. It is…
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Supreme Court Presages Broad Religious Exemptions to State and Local Non-Discrimination Provisions
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Pa., 141 S. Ct. 1868 (2021). I. Introduction In Fulton, both the district court and court of appeals held in favor of the defendants, citing Employment Division v. Smith as controlling precedent regarding “neutral laws of general applicability.” Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, 320 F. Supp. 3d 661, 704 (E.D.…
Communitas (IM)perfecta: How the Internal Organization of the Catholic Church Heightens Obstacles to Remedies for Clerical Sexual Assault Survivors and Recommendations to Remove These Obstacles
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.Nelson Mandela Abstract Although the Catholic Church has been referred to as a “communitas perfecta” (the perfect community), more than 30,000 incidents of child clerical sexual abuse have been reported by survivors in the United States. The rampant sexual abuse of minors…
Pray the Gay Away: Conversion Therapy, Suicide, Religion, and the First Amendment
Image by waldryano from Pixabay. Your sexuality is a result of your childhood abuse. You are only the person you are because your father was absent. If you had only had more male influence in your life, you would not be the person that you are, but it can be fixed. Perhaps you need God,…