Ihre Papiere or GTFO: Micro-tracking students in Texas survives legal challenge

by Eileen | 5:18 pm, January 9, 2013

Some of you are perhaps aware of a case in San Antonio, Texas where a student, a minor at a public school, refused to wear an ID tag embedded with an RFID chip.  With her parents’ support, she sued, taking the interesting legal angle that such a requirement violated her religious freedom.  Specifically, Andrea Hernandez [...]

Health Care, Religion, Government, and The Left – Part II

by Joshua Sharf | 1:54 pm, May 23, 2012

Last night, I posted some audio of lawyers at a loss for words at a panel discussion on religion and government.  This morning, I’d like to post another clip from the Q&A, one that I think is particularly revealing about the left’s attitude towards religious liberty.  The commenter is Ed Kahn, the lawyer for the [...]

The Sound of Silence

by Joshua Sharf | 10:58 pm, May 22, 2012

This evening, I attended a panel discussion at one of the local synagogues on the topic of religion and government.  It was sponsored by the very liberal National Council of Jewish Women, and featured four attorneys: Melissa Hart, Assoc. Prof. of Law and Director of the Byron White Center for the Study of Constitutional Law [...]

What Skeptics and Conservatives Can Learn from Each Other

by Ari Armstrong | 10:32 pm, May 13, 2012

The following article by Linn and Ari Armstrong originally was published May 11 by Grand Junction Free Press. What do skeptics from Denver and conservatives from the Heritage Foundation have in common? More than you might initially guess. We suppose Ari is one of the few people to have attended both a Heritage event and a Skepticamp (a day filled [...]

Inverting the State/Civil Society Relationship

by Joshua Sharf | 1:09 am, February 10, 2012

That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Status for Religious Freedom You can quote Jefferson like scripture.  But this is one of the three acts he had put on his tombstone, so I’d wager [...]

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