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Going to law
Last week, in the first week of its October 2011 term, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a suit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging the local branch of the Missouri...
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Are religious institutions entitled to disobey the law?
Oral argument was held at the Supreme Court on October 5 in the important First Amendment case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC. Hosanna-Tabor involves a legal rule...
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What’s the supreme question in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC?
Some initial disclosures and disclaimers seem appropriate from the start. I am a theologian, not a lawyer—but I am the son of a lawyer. I am not a pastor of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) or...
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Religious freedom defeats secular law
Secular law lost unanimously in the Supreme Court of the United States last week. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal antidiscrimination statute that bars discrimination against...
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