All posts tagged "Religious Beliefs"

As conflict over K-12 curriculums rise across the country in states like Florida and Texas, conflict also pours into spaces outside of the classroom — including extra-curricular clubs like religious groups.

In an op-ed published Saturday by Kansas Reflector, Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer chair in education in the School of Education and Health Sciences, director of the Ph.D. program, and research professor of law in the School of Law at the University of Dayton, argues that children's exposure to differences in beliefs and ideas can potentially "sharpen their critical thinking."

In his argument, Russo points to the the fact that "conflict has trailed attempts to establish After School Satan Clubs sponsored by the Satanic Temple, which the U.S. government recognizes as a religious group....

According to ThinkProgress, the winner of Tuesday's Republican primary in Nebraska believes that the United States "cannot force citizens to violate their religious beliefs under any circumstance."

According to the Associated Press, a self-proclaimed Satanist recently filed a federal lawsuit against Nevada prison officials in which he argues that the preservatives and additives in prison food violate the tenets of his religious beliefs.

Attorneys for an Oregon couple accused of allowing their daughter to die of untreated diabetes complications don’t want jurors to hear about their faith-healing beliefs at trial.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) argued on Wednesday that corporations like Hobby Lobby should be able to legally practice religion -- and be able to deny birth control to women -- if they were also subject to criminal prosecution under U.S. law.

You have to hand to right wing pundits. They kick ass at the bait-and-switch, particularly with their own people. They knew that throwing a major fit over the contraception mandate, no matter how much it's dressed up in "religious freedom" as an excuse, would be understood by their followers as an attack on stupid sluts looking for a handout who just need to keep their legs closed. And that their people would not think one whit further about the implications of allowing your employer to tailor your compensation for your labor to his religious beliefs. But the Hobby Lobby case that's going in front of the Supreme Court will not be argued on the grounds of whether or not stupid sluts need to keep their legs closed. It's going to be argued on the grounds that a business can have a "religion"---which can contain any beliefs they want---and that they have wide berth to use that "religion" to discriminate against their employees. Maybe it will be limited to compensation, or maybe it will be bigger than that. After all, if they're allowed to withhold benefits because they disapprove of your private life, then what else will they be able to do? Refuse to hire women at all?