As one who has built his career upon plying and defending the First Amendment’s provisions of free speech, I watched with interest the now viral Golden Globes speech of Theo Kingma, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. His words, given as a welcome to what may otherwise be considered an overpriced dinner accompanying one of the …
Continue...A few months back, the Solicitor General of the United States argued before the Supreme Court that if you engage in business, you give up certain legal protections for your religious conscience. Justice Alito, who penned the majority opinion rejecting the Solicitor General’s argument, framed the government’s argument as follows: “HHS would put these merchants …
Continue...It is sometimes difficult to conceive that our Founding Fathers might have writer’s block. When we think of our founding era and the efforts to encapsulate this great experiment in democracy, we sometimes think what we now know as the revolutionary ideas housed in our founding documents simply flowed from these brilliant minds through the …
Continue...Caesar has provided us with a lamentable choice. Today, it is not the coliseum, nor are Christians being driven to the catacombs under totalitarian persecution. The choice presented to us, however, is no less unjust. In fact, the modern American-political complex – today’s version of Caesar — may be perfectly happy with Christians and other …
Continue...Quietly asserting ones religious liberty is now more culturally unacceptable than yelling, FIRE! in a crowded theater. What happened to our love for religious liberty? In law school, I remember being taught that the First Amendment bars government from restricting someone's religious liberty. Indeed, it starts, "Congress shall make no law . . ." that …
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