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'Office of International Religious Freedom'

Satanic Temple makes headway in Missouri on religious protest of anti-abortion law

The Satanic Temple, a very serious outfit that promises to challenge the Arkansas Ten Commandments monument when it has its next erection on the Arkansas Capitol grounds, seems to be making headway in a challenge of Missouri, which has adopted many of the same anti-abortion laws Arkansas has adopted. Its argument: Religious freedom.
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Supreme Court asked to block Mississippi gay discrimination law

Human rights advocates today announced an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to block enforcement of a Mississippi law that allows businesses to refuse serve to gay people. It could have application in Arkansas, where law also protects discrimination against gay people.
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Jeff Sessions moves to support LGBT discrimination

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has put out guidelines on discrimination against LGBT people that seem to create a sweeping claim of protection for discrimination.

Griffen files federal civil rights lawsuit over Good Friday vigil punishment

Calling what happened to the product of "a lynch mob mentality" and the result of a weekend of conspiratorial conversations between members of the Arkansas State Supreme Court, firebrand Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen held a press conference today to announce the filing of a federal civil rights lawsuit over being stripped of his ability to hear cases related to the death penalty, following a Good Friday vigil in which Griffen lay on a cot in front of the Governor's mansion.
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Feed the hungry: More resistance to cold government planners

And speaking of resistance: It's forming to the proposed Little Rock city ordinance, on the City Board's agenda Tuesday, aimed at making it impossible to offer regular feeding of the homeless in city parks.

Ken Starr reported under consideration for Trump administration post

Ken Starr for a job in the Trump administration? It's possible. They can compare notes on sexual assault scandals.
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Mississippi case illustrates what's wrong with Arkansas anti-gay 'conscience' law

Here's a good followup from Slate on the important ruling by Mississippi federal Judge Carlton Reeves that struck down that state's so-called religious conscience law. Mississippi, as the Arkansas law did earlier, passed a law nominally said to protect religious beliefs.

Georgia governor vetoes anti-gay 'religious liberty' bill

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, under heavy pressure from major businesses, has vetoed the anti-gay state legislation styled as a religious freedom bill.
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Recommended reading: The Atlantic on the Kentucky clerk refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses

Does religious freedom mean that a public employee gets to keep her job even if she refuses to follow the law and do her job?

Speaking of religious freedom: How about this Bro. Rapert?

Whose religious freedom is in danger? An article illustrates that those who'd ban same-sex marriage in the name of religion actually want to limit the religious freedom of many others through state action. How American is that?
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Permanent injunction entered in prison beard lawsuit

Federal Judge Brian Miller today permamently enjoined the Arkansas prison system from preventing a Muslim inmate from growing a beard.

Mike Huckabee, meet James Madison

Not that it will do much good, but Times columnist Ernest Dumas this week provides some useful Founding Father history, plus a little bit of Bible, for how wrong-headed Mike Huckabee, Asa Hutchinson, the Republican legislature and others are in using government to enforce their religious views.
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