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Corporate veil or wall of separation?
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby raises a series of important questions for public debate. If for-profit corporations are entitled to exercise freedom of religion, then as a...
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Corporation as sect
It is easy to forget that religious freedom wasn’t an only child: she was a part of a family of counter-measures listed in the First Amendment. The naming of religion in the Constitution was, and is, a...
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The privilege of spirit: The liberal concern with religious liberty claims
A few blocks from my apartment, a neighbor has displayed a placard proclaiming “Defend Religious Liberty.” These words could encompass a range of meanings and raise any number of questions. What,...
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On the unreasonableness of legal religion
Toward the end of her Burwell v. Hobby Lobby dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg finally gets to the heart of the problem. Describing a slew of contentious claims that might follow the Court’s...
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Why corporations have religious freedom
we stand united | Image via Flickr user Gabe Gross [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]The legal status of corporations as fictive persons is well-lampooned in the bumper sticker that reads, “I’ll believe corporations...
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The zero effect doctrine
In the wake of last summer’s Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College v. Burwell decisions, many wondered how corporations could exercise religious liberty. Liberal discussions focused on the...
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Hobby Lobby and the question for religious freedom
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is arguably the premier scholar of law and religion in the United States. She brings to the field of law an unparalleled degree of sophistication and historical and...
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The Supreme Court’s faith in belief
we stand united | Image via Flickr user Gabe Gross This summer, the Supreme Court was once again at the center of the American culture wars. The media and many Americans on both sides of the political...
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The impossibility of religious freedom
In the last week the US Supreme Court has acted in two religious freedom cases (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College v. Burwell) in favor of conservative Christian plaintiffs seeking exemptions...
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