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The policy change was signed on Wednesday by\u0026nbsp;director of the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003E[Thanks to Scott Mange for the lead.]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/1463249051247041633"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/1463249051247041633"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/texas-will-now-allow-spiritual-advisor.html","title":"Texas Will Now Allow Spiritual Advisor In Execution Chamber With Prisoner"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-5802844850277068059"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-25T10:55:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-25T10:55:17.020-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Armenia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Genocide"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Joe Biden"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Labels 1915 Armenian Massacre As \"Genocide\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the first time yesterday, a sitting U.S. President labelled the 1915 massacre of Armenians as \"genocide\". In a Statement (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/24\/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-armenian-remembrance-day\/\"\u003Efull tex\u003C\/a\u003Et), President Biden said in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history. And we remember so that we remain ever-vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/24\/990292454\/biden-calls-slaughter-of-armenians-a-genocide-posing-test-for-u-s-ties-with-turk\"\u003ENPR\u003C\/a\u003E reports on the President's statement.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/5802844850277068059"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/5802844850277068059"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/biden-labels-1915-armenian-massacre-as.html","title":"Biden Labels 1915 Armenian Massacre As \"Genocide\""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-2638065485183844899"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-23T16:40:00.005-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-23T16:43:25.406-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"China"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Genocide"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Uighurs"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Britain's House of Commons Says China Is Guilty of Genocide"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EBritain's House of Commons yesterday adopted a resolution (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2021-04-22\/debates\/6FA4F300-D244-443E-A48C-57378876DE54\/HumanRightsXinjiang\"\u003Efull text of debate and resolution\u003C\/a\u003E) declaring that China has committed genocide in its treatment of the Uyghurs. the Resolution reads:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat this House believes that Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide; and calls on the Government to act to fulfil its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and all relevant instruments of international law to bring it to an end.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/uk-parliament-declares-genocide-chinas-xinjiang-raises-pressure-johnson-2021-04-22\/\"\u003EReuters\u003C\/a\u003E reports on Parliament's action.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2638065485183844899"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2638065485183844899"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/britains-house-of-commons-says-china-is.html","title":"Britain's House of Commons Says China Is Guilty of Genocide"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-7149566214027386264"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-23T07:05:00.008-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-23T07:05:00.455-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Algeria"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Blasphemy"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Algerian Journalist Sentenced To Prison For Facebook Posts Offensive To Islam"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2021\/04\/algeria-islamic-scholar-sentenced-to-three-year-prison-term-for-offending-islam\/\"\u003EAmnesty International reported\u003C\/a\u003E yesterday that a court in Algeria on April 1 sentenced a journalist \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sa%C3%AFd_Djabelkhir#cite_note-:0-2\"\u003ESaid Djabelkheir\u003C\/a\u003E, a specialist on Sufism, to three years in prison and a fine of 50,000 dinars ($375 US) for Facebook posts he authored:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn three online posts on Facebook in January 2020, Said Djabelkheir drew comparisons between Eid al-Adha and the Berber New Year celebrations; referred to some stories in the Qur’an as ‘myths; and said he considered some hadiths ‘apocryphal’.\u0026nbsp; The \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidi_M%27Hamed\"\u003ESidi Mhamed\u003C\/a\u003E Court of First Instance today convicted him of “offending the Prophet of Islam” and “denigrating the dogma or precepts of Islam\" under Article 144bis[2] of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.icnl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Algeria_crimenselection.pdf\"\u003EAlgeria’s Penal Code\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENo order to take Djabelkheir into custody has yet been issued. Djabelkheir's lawyer plan to appeal his conviction.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/7149566214027386264"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/7149566214027386264"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/algerian-journalist-sentenced-to-prison.html","title":"Algerian Journalist Sentenced To Prison For Facebook Posts Offensive To Islam"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-4799328280713556168"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-23T07:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-23T07:00:00.552-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Free exercise"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"School vouchers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vermont"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Vermont State School Board Orders Payment Of Tuition To Religiously Affiliated Schools"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EIn \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/education.vermont.gov\/sites\/aoe\/files\/documents\/2021%2004%2019%20BOE%20Final%20As%20Approved.pdf\"\u003EIn re Appeal of Valente\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E(VT State Bd. Educ., April 21, 2021), the Vermont State Board of Education, in appeals by three families, ordered local school boards in districts without public high schools to pay students' tuition to religiously affiliated high schools. Vermont law requires school districts that do not have public high schools to pay tuition for students to attend another public or private school. The Vermont Supreme Court in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/vt-supreme-court\/1396322.html\"\u003EC\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/vt-supreme-court\/1396322.html\"\u003Ehittenden Town School Dist. v. Dept. of Educ.\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E(1999) limited the ability of districts to pay tuition to religious schools, while the U.S. Supreme Court has held that the 1st Amendment bars exclusion of religiously affiliated schools from general aid programs. The Board of Education said in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe type of use restriction and certification discussed in \u003Ci\u003EMitchell\u003C\/i\u003E may provide a reasonable option going forward for harmonizing the state and federal constitutional requirements. School districts ... could ask all ... schools to certify that public tuition payments will not be used to fund religious instruction or religious worship. Such an approach would place all independent schools on an equal footing; regardless of perceived or actual religious affiliation, all independent schools would be asked to provide the same assurance regarding the use of public tuition payments. No school would be excluded based solely on its religious affiliation. And no school would be required to “refrain from teaching religion.” ...\u0026nbsp;Schools themselves would be left to decide whether to accept public tuition payments that could not be used to fund religious worship or religious instruction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Board offers these observations with the caveat that this is not a rulemaking proceeding and it cannot, in this context, provide any binding direction to school districts. Further, as explained above, constitutional questions remain unsettled. As litigation moves through the courts, the permissible legal parameters may become clearer. Ultimately the courts will have to resolve whether the use restriction that \u003Ci\u003EChittenden\u003C\/i\u003E requires can co-exist with First Amendment requirements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2021\/04\/21\/state-board-of-education-orders-3-districts-to-pay-tuition-at-religious-schools\/\"\u003EVTDigger\u003C\/a\u003E reports on the decision.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/4799328280713556168"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/4799328280713556168"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/vermont-state-school-board-orders.html","title":"Vermont State School Board Orders Payment Of Tuition To Religiously Affiliated Schools"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-2572338011327240456"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-22T07:00:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-22T20:40:01.738-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"International religious freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USCIRF"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"USCIRF Issues Annual Report On International Religious Freedom"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom yesterday \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/news-room\/releases-statements\/uscirf-releases-2021-annual-report-recommendations-us-policy\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E the release of its 2021 Annual Report (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-04\/2021%20Annual%20Report.pdf\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp; The 108-page Report focuses on religious freedom violations in 26 countries. Summarizing it findings, the Report said in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor 2021, based on religious freedom conditions in 2020, USCIRF recommends that the State Department:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E• Redesignate as CPCs [Countries of Particular Concern] the following ten countries: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E• Designate as additional CPCs the following four countries: India, Russia, Syria, and Vietnam;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E• Maintain on the SWL [Special Watch List] the following two countries: Cuba and Nicaragua;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E• Include on the SWL the following 10 countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Turkey, and Uzbekistan; and\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E• Redesignate as EPCs [Entities of Particular Concern] the following seven nonstate actors: al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, the Houthis, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), and the Taliban.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Report also makes numerous policy recommendations to the U.S. government, including the prompt nomination of the ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom (IRF), special adviser for IRF on the National Security Council staff, special coordinator for Tibetan issues, and special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism. It also recommends changes in U.S. handling of refugees and asylum seekers.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2572338011327240456"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2572338011327240456"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/uscirf-issues-annual-report-on.html","title":"USCIRF Issues Annual Report On International Religious Freedom"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-966471523528179081"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-21T07:05:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-21T14:49:53.730-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Gender discrimination"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Health Care"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Transgender"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"5th Circuit Remands Religious Medical Providers' Challenge To Anti-Discrimination Rules"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EIn \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/20\/20-10093.0.pdf\"\u003EFranciscan Alliance, Inc. v. Becerra\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(5th Cir., April 15, 2021), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals remanded to a Texas federal district court a challenge by religious medical providers to a 2016 Health and Human Services rule that prohibited discrimination on the basis of \"termination of pregnancy\" and \"gender identity.\" The appeals court noted that since the district court decision, \"the legal landscape has shifted significantly.\" It pointed out:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHHS repealed the 2016 rule and finalized a new rule in 2020; the Supreme Court interpreted Title VII’s prohibition of “sex discrimination” to include gender identity...; two district courts entered preliminary injunctions against the 2020 rule....; President Biden issued an executive order declaring that his administration would apply Bostock’s interpretation of Title VII to other statutes prohibiting sex discrimination;\u0026nbsp;and HHS is again considering a new rule....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe court said that on remand the district court should consider they type of relief that should be granted and whether the case is moot.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/966471523528179081"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/966471523528179081"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/5th-circuit-remands-religious-medical.html","title":"5th Circuit Remands Religious Medical Providers' Challenge To Anti-Discrimination Rules"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-6072669353835384818"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-21T07:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-21T07:00:00.619-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Canada"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Quebec"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Religion In Public Life"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Secularism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Canadian Trial Court Upholds Most Applications of Quebec's Ban On Officials Wearing Religious Symbols"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EIn \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/fr\/qc\/qccs\/doc\/2021\/2021qccs1466\/2021qccs1466.html\"\u003EHak v. Attorney General of Quebec\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003E(Que. Super. Ct., April 20, 2021), a Quebec (Canada) Superior Court judge in a 240-page opinion upheld, with two important exceptions, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca\/en\/showdoc\/cs\/L-0.3\"\u003EBill 21\u003C\/a\u003E which prohibits a lengthy list of public officials, law enforcement and judicial officials as well as teachers from wearing religious symbols in the exercise of their official functions. (See \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/quebec-enacts-ban-on-public-employees.html\"\u003Eprior posting\u003C\/a\u003E.) Here is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/bill-21-religious-symbols-ban-quebec-court-ruling-1.5993431\"\u003ECBC News'\u003C\/a\u003E summary of the decision:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQuebec's secularism law violates the basic rights of religious minorities in the province, but those violations are permissible because of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause, a Superior Court judge ruled on Tuesday.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut the ruling by Justice Marc-André Blanchard also declared that the most contentious parts of the law — the religious symbols ban for many government employees — can't be applied to English schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe desire of English school boards to foster diversity by choosing who they hire is protected by the minority-language education rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Blanchard said in his decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrucially, that section of the charter (23) is not covered by the notwithstanding clause....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBlanchard also ruled that members of the province's National Assembly can't be forced to provide services to the public with their faces uncovered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn other words, MNAs are allowed to wear religious symbols that cover their faces, such as a niqab, in accordance with the section of the charter that guarantees every citizen the right to be eligible to vote and be a member of the legislature.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQuebec's Justice Minister says that an appeal is planned. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/local-news\/breaking-quebec-superior-court-strikes-down-parts-of-bill-21\"\u003EMontreal Gazette\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/20\/world\/canada\/quebec-religious-symbols-ruling.html\"\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/a\u003E also analyze the decision.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/6072669353835384818"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/6072669353835384818"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/canadian-trial-court-upholds-most.html","title":"Canadian Trial Court Upholds Most Applications of Quebec's Ban On Officials Wearing Religious Symbols"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-2977470463530239416"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-20T10:13:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-20T10:13:19.091-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Guatemala"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Kidnapping"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lev Tahor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New York"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Indictment Against Lev Tahor Over Kidnapping Of Minor"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York yesterday \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/lev-tahor-leaders-charged-child-exploitation-offenses\"\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the issuance of a superseding indictment (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/press-release\/file\/1387911\/download\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) bringing additional charges against leaders and members of the extremist Jewish sect \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lev_Tahor\"\u003ELev Tahor\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; The new indictment in \u003Ci\u003EUnited States v. Helbrans, \u003C\/i\u003E(SDNY, April 20, 2021) charges defendants with conspiring to transport a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. It also repeats former charges of use of false documents and international parental kidnapping of a girl and her brother. The 250-member Lev Tahor sect is currently based in Guatemala.\u0026nbsp; The indictment stems from initially successful attempts to kidnap and return to Guatemala a 14-year old girl whose uncle had her married in a religious ceremony to a 19-year old member of the sect for purposes of a sexual relationship to procreate. The girl's mother had fled from Guatemala to New York with the girl and her brother. \u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003E[Thanks to Scott Mange for the lead.]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2977470463530239416"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2977470463530239416"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/new-indictment-against-lev-tahor-over.html","title":"New Indictment Against Lev Tahor Over Kidnapping Of Minor"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-5030359262786799417"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-20T07:00:00.007-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-20T07:00:00.459-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fair Housing Act"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Religious colleges"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Transgender"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Christian College Sues HUD Over Interpretation of Fair Housing Act"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003ESuit was filed last week in a Missouri federal district court challenging a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/sites\/dfiles\/FHEO\/documents\/WordenMemoEO13988FHActImplementation.pdf\"\u003EDirective\u003C\/a\u003E issued last month by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development interpreting the Fair Housing Act as barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The 70-page complaint (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net\/files\/CollegeoftheOzarksComplaint.pdf\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) in \u003Ci\u003EThe School of the Ozarks, Inc. v. Biden,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(WD MO, filed 4\/15\/2021), in addition to claiming a number of procedural problems with the adoption of the Directive, alleges that it violates the 1st Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The complaint alleges in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1. This action challenges a federal agency directive that requires private religious colleges to place biological males into female dormitories and to assign them as females’ roommates.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E39. The Christian faith is an integral part of life at College of the Ozarks....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E57. The College teaches human sexuality is a gift from God....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E58. The College teaches that sex as determined at birth is a person’s God-given, objective gender, whether or not it differs from their internal sense of “gender identity,” and it bases this teaching on such Biblical passages as Genesis 1:27, Leviticus 18:22, Matthew 19:4, Romans 1:26–27, and 1 Corinthians 6:9–10.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EADF issued a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/adfmedia.org\/case\/school-ozarks-dba-college-ozarks-v-biden\"\u003Epress release\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;announcing the filing of the lawsuit.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/5030359262786799417"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/5030359262786799417"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/christian-college-sues-hud-over.html","title":"Christian College Sues HUD Over Interpretation of Fair Housing Act"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-6316271123068150855"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-19T07:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-19T07:00:00.462-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Articles of interest"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Recent Articles of Interest"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;From SSRN:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003EKarsten Schubert, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3806573\"\u003EThe Christian Roots of Critique. How Foucault's 'Confessions of the Flesh' Sheds New Light on the Concept of Freedom and the Genealogy of the Modern Critical Attitude\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Le foucaldien 7, no. 1, pp. 1-11 (2021)).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAgustina\u0026nbsp;Ramón Michel \u0026amp; Sonia Ariza Navarrete, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3808375\"\u003EUnexpected Uses of and Responses to Conscientious Objection to Legal Abortion\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(REDAAS N° 13 January 2021).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFiona A. Miller, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3823874\"\u003EThe Federal Spending Power: Building Forward after the Pandemic\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Healthcare Management Forum, Forthcoming).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBarry Winston Bussey, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3816727\"\u003EHuman Dignity Found In Religious Community\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, (in Barry W. Bussey \u0026amp; Angus J. L. Menuge, Eds., The Inherence of Human Dignity Law and Religious Liberty, Volume 2 (London: Anthem Press, 2021), 115-145).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnton Sorkin, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3817924\"\u003EA \"Cruel Choice\" Made Law: Freewheelin' Accommodation Claims and Harms of Conviction Endemic to Adverse Action\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003E(University of Memphis Law Review, Forthcoming).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECaroline Mala Corbin, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3816024\"\u003EPublic School Teachers \u0026amp; Transgender Students \u0026amp; Pronouns\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Balkinization, March 19, 2020).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAgustina Ramón Michel, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3810173\"\u003EAbortion\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003E(The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America, Oxford University Press, 2020).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJaina Green, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3824964\"\u003EAbortion Regulations: An Avenue for Abolishing Abortion?\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003E(Southern University Law Review, Forthcoming).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPreston Green, Julie Mead \u0026amp; Suzanne Eckes, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3812610\"\u003ECovenants to Discriminate: How the Anti-LGBT Policies of Participating Voucher Schools Might Violate the State Action Doctrine\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(University of New Hampshire Law Review, Forthcoming).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEnyinna S.\u0026nbsp;Nwauche,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3815406\"\u003EA Customary Law of the Afrikaner People of South Africa\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(in ES Nwauche (ed) Citizenship and Customary Law in Africa, Centre for African Legal Studies, 69-85 (2020)).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJohn Picton, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3810115\"\u003ELëhtimaki v Cooper: Duty and Jurisdiction in Charity Law\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003E((2021) 84 Modern Law Review 383).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECindy Lott, Mary Shelly \u0026amp; Nathan Dietz, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3810745\"\u003ERegulatory Breadth Index: A New Measurement of State-Level Charity Regulation\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E (November 9, 2020).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom SSRN (Religious Law):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFajri Muhammadin,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3807678\"\u003EIslamic Ethics of the Conduct of War\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E(Forthcoming Chapter in the Handbook of Islamic Ethics, Edited by Prof Mohammad Jafar Mahallati).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGargey Yadav,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3812962\"\u003EA Critical Study on Dharma with Respect to Justice in Western Jurisprudence\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(March 26, 2021).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ET. K. Tushar,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3823125\"\u003EEvolution of Muslim Marriage Laws\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(April 1, 2021).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENikos Koumoutzis,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3804217\"\u003EThe Islamic Prohibition of Adoption as Limitation of the Right to Respect of Family Life (article 8 ECHR) – Revisiting ECtHR Harroudj v France, no. 43631\/09, 4 October 2012\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional 1\/2021).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMoorthy S.\u0026nbsp;Muthuswamy,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3788907\"\u003EThe Theme-Enablers Theory of Salafi Extremism\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(February 19, 2021).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/6316271123068150855"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/6316271123068150855"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/recent-articles-of-interest_02025756180.html","title":"Recent Articles of Interest"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-1711928788636155070"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-17T21:51:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-17T21:51:41.336-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antisemitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"France"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"French Top Court Says Anti-Semitic Murderer of Jewish Woman Is Mentally Unfit To Stand Trial"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france\/20210414-top-french-court-upholds-decision-not-to-try-suspect-in-jewish-woman-s-murder\"\u003EFrance 24\u003C\/a\u003E reports that France's highest court, the Court of\u0026nbsp;Cassation, ruled on Wednesday that a Muslim man who murdered Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman, was not criminally responsible for the act.\u0026nbsp; The report says in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHalimi, an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties, died in 2017 after being pushed out of the window of her Paris flat by neighbour Kobili Traoré, who shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" (\"God is great\" in Arabic).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe verdict by the Court of Cassation, means Traoré will not face any trial. It confirmed past rulings from lower courts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraoré, a heavy pot smoker, has been in psychiatric care since Halimi's death. The court said he committed the killing after succumbing to a \"delirious fit\" and was thus not responsible for his actions....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing Wednesday's verdict, lawyers representing Halimi's family said they intend to refer the case to the European Court of Human Rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/1711928788636155070"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/1711928788636155070"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/french-top-court-says-anti-semitic.html","title":"French Top Court Says Anti-Semitic Murderer of Jewish Woman Is Mentally Unfit To Stand Trial"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-3667966586498083481"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-17T21:23:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-17T21:23:19.737-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"National Institutes of Health"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"NIH Reverses Trump Era Restrictions On Fetal Tissue Research"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;As reported by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/16\/biden-reverses-fetal-tissue-research-restrictions-482503\"\u003EPolitico\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Biden administration on Friday moved to unwind strict Trump-era restrictions on federal-funded medical research using fetal tissue obtained by abortions, reversing policies that scientists warned would devastate the development of treatments for a broad range of diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Trump administration, under pressure from allied anti-abortion groups, ended fetal tissue research at the National Institutes of Health and established an ethics board to review government support for the research at universities and other labs. The board, which was filled with critics of the research, met just once and rejected 13 of 14 projects that NIH scientists had deemed worthy of support.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a Notice (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-21-111.html?utm_source=dlvr.it\u0026amp;utm_medium=twitter\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) published yesterday, the National Institutes of Health said in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis notice informs the extramural research community that HHS is reversing its 2019 decision that all research applications for NIH grants and contracts proposing the use of human fetal tissue from elective abortions will be reviewed by an Ethics Advisory Board. Accordingly, HHS\/NIH will not convene another NIH Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/3667966586498083481"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/3667966586498083481"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/nih-reverses-trump-era-restrictions-on.html","title":"NIH Reverses Trump Era Restrictions On Fetal Tissue Research"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-5337103280819751576"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-16T16:01:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-16T16:01:28.105-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Child custody"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Faith healing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Michigan"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Michigan Statute Protecting Parents' Faith Healing Includes Subjective Religious Interpretations"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EMichigan's Child Protection Law (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(c21xm02ija3hsxjq5l43104y))\/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject\u0026amp;objectname=mcl-722-634\"\u003EMCL 722.634\u003C\/a\u003E) provides:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA parent or guardian legitimately practicing his religious beliefs who thereby does not provide specified medical treatment for a child, for that reason alone shall not be considered a negligent parent or guardian.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/publicdocs.courts.mi.gov\/opinions\/final\/coa\/20210415_c353436_63_353436.opn.pdf\"\u003EIn re Piland\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(MI App., April 15, 2021), a Michigan state appellate court held that the trial court erred in refusing to give a jury instruction based on this statute in a case in which parental rights for three children were being revoked.\u0026nbsp; The parents had allowed a newborn infant who developed jaundice to die rather than call for medical help. The trial court had refused the instruction because it interpreted the statute to relate only to the practice of beliefs of a religious organization, and not to individualized beliefs.\u0026nbsp; The appellate court disagreed, saying in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe trial court’s interpretation of the word “legitimately,” as used in MCL 722.634, is that the religious beliefs being practiced must be legitimate. And, that, in order to be legitimate, those beliefs had to be part of the doctrine or tenants of a religion as opposed to a parent or guardian’s subjective interpretation of scriptures. The trial court’s interpretation, however, renders the statute unconstitutional. It is well-established that “government has no role in deciding or even suggesting whether the religious ground” for a person’s actions “is legitimate or illegitimate.”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/5337103280819751576"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/5337103280819751576"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/michigan-statute-protecting-parents.html","title":"Michigan Statute Protecting Parents' Faith Healing Includes Subjective Religious Interpretations"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-2752025227333331712"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-16T07:05:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-16T07:05:00.780-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jewish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Reasonable accommodation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"US Navy"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Jewish Sailor Gets Temporary Reprieve From Order To Shave Beard"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003ESuit was filed yesterday in the D.C. federal district court by a Jewish sailor who was ordered to shave his beard which he maintains for religious reasons. Other plaintiffs in the case are Muslim sailors.\u0026nbsp; The complaint (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/2021-04-15_Complaint_Di-Liscia-v-Austin.pdf\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) in \u003Ci\u003EDi Liscia v. Austin,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(D DC, filed 4\/15\/2021), alleges in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1. Plaintiff Edmund Di Liscia, a devout Chassidic Jew and a Sailor in the United States Navy with a rating as an Electricians Mate, Nuclear Power 3rd Class Petty Officer (EMN3), seeks emergency relief to stop Defendants from forcing him to shave in violation of his sincerely held religious beliefs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2. Over two years ago, shortly after joining the Navy, EMN3 Di Liscia received a “no-shave chit” permitting him to maintain his beard as a religious accommodation for his faith. That accommodation remained effective during his current deployment aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt. Indeed, throughout the deployment, his fellow Sailors aboard the USS Roosevelt have all received MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) no-shave chits that allow them to shave only once every fourteen days.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E3. But on or around April 14, 2021, EMN3 Di Liscia’s chief informed him that he must shave on the morning of April 16, 2021, and regularly thereafter....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlaintiff moved for a TRO (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/2021-04-15_Memo-in-Support-of-TRO.pdf\"\u003Ememo in support of TRO\u003C\/a\u003E). The military agreed that it would not require Di Liscia to shave, at least for the time being. The court issued a temporary restraining order (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/Di-Liscia-Order.pdf\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) barring the military from requiring him to shave or trim his beard. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2021\/04\/15\/judge-grants-jewish-sailor-temporary-reprieve-after-navy-orders-him-shave-beard.html\"\u003EMilitary.com\u003C\/a\u003E reports on the case.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2752025227333331712"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2752025227333331712"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/jewish-sailor-gets-temporary-reprieve.html","title":"Jewish Sailor Gets Temporary Reprieve From Order To Shave Beard"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-4407256403141768707"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-16T07:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-16T07:00:00.698-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"HHS"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Title X"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"HHS Proposes Reversal of Trump Administration Title X Family Planning Grant Rules"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EYesterday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a proposed rule that would reverse the Trump Administration rules on federally funded family planning services and return, with a few modifications, to the rules in effect before 2019.\u0026nbsp; As summarized by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/14\/987131269\/biden-administration-moves-to-undo-trump-abortion-rules-for-title-x\"\u003ENPR News\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe [Trump Administration] rules ... forbid any provider who provides or refers patients for abortions from receiving federal funding through Title X to cover services such as contraception and STD screenings for low-income people....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Trump administration implemented the current rules in an effort to \"defund Planned Parenthood,\" as he had promised supporters during both his campaign and his presidency. That prompted more than 1,000 health clinics in dozens of states, including but not limited to Planned Parenthood, to leave the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe HHS Release (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/04\/15\/2021-07762\/ensuring-access-to-equitable-affordable-client-centered-quality-family-planning-services\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) titled\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EEnsuring Access to Equitable, Affordable, Client-Centered, Quality Family Planning Services \u003C\/i\u003Esays in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor five decades, Title X family planning clinics have played a critical role in ensuring access to a broad range of family planning and related preventive health services for millions of low-income or uninsured individuals and others.... Title X providers offered clients a broad range of effective and medically safe contraceptive methods approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Title X-funded sexually transmitted infection (STI) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening services prevented transmission and adverse health consequences....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGiven the previous success of the program, the large negative public health consequences of maintaining the 2019 rules, the substantial compliance costs for grantees, and the lack of tangible benefits, the Department proposes revoking the 2019 Title X regulations. As has been clearly borne out by case law and history, the Department has the discretion to make this determination and it is in the interest of public health....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/4407256403141768707"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/4407256403141768707"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/hhs-proposes-reversal-of-trump.html","title":"HHS Proposes Reversal of Trump Administration Title X Family Planning Grant Rules"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-7466353169848958581"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-15T07:10:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-15T07:10:00.592-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antisemitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USCIRF"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"USCIRF Issues Report On Antisemitism In Europe"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EYesterday the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a 58-page report (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Antisemitism%20in%20Europe.pdf\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) on \u003Ci\u003EAntisemitism In Europe.\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Report says in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeasured against their own long-standing and common political commitments, governments of the 11 states covered in this report have responded differently to the challenges of antisemitism in their countries. In some countries, antisemitic attitudes are a greater challenge than antisemitic incidents. In others the reverse holds true.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 10 of the 11 countries, though, efforts seem insufficient to meet the antisemitism challenges that present themselves....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Report includes recommendations for United States policies to fight antisemitism in Europe.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/7466353169848958581"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/7466353169848958581"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/uscirf-issues-report-on-antisemitism-in.html","title":"USCIRF Issues Report On Antisemitism In Europe"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-7274699167096072566"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-15T07:05:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-15T07:05:00.555-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Blaine Amendments"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Equal Protection"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Free exercise"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"South Carolina"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Lawsuit Claims South Carolina's Blaine Amendment Is Unconstitutional"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003ESuit was filed yesterday in a South Carolina federal district court asking the court to declare that South Carolina's Blaine Amendment (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/constitution\/south-carolina\/a11.html\"\u003EArt. XI, Sec. 4 \u003C\/a\u003Eof the South Carolina Constitution) violates the Equal\u0026nbsp; Protection and Free Exercise clauses of the U.S. Constitution.\u0026nbsp; The complaint (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ljc-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/2021\/04\/2021-04-14-Bishop-of-Charleston-v-Adams-Complaint.pdf\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) in \u003Ci\u003EBishop of Charleston v. Adams,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(D SC, filed 4\/14\/2021) reads in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging our state and nation, the U.S. Congress and South Carolina General Assembly have appropriated substantial sums of public funds to provide relief to local governments, employers, non-profit organizations, schools, and colleges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2. However, because the South Carolina Constitution contains a provision, a so-called Blaine Amendment, which prohibits public funds from being allocated to private or religious schools, the schools and universities represented by Plaintiffs are legally prohibited from accessing these relief funds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E3. Because the Blaine Amendment was born in bigotry and prejudice based on race and religion, it violates the equal protection and free exercise clauses of the U.S. Constitution, and should no longer bar Plaintiffs’ schools from equal access to these essential relief funds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe complaint goes on to trace the specific history of the Blaine Amendment in South Carolina.\u0026nbsp; Plaintiffs in the case are a Catholic diocese that operates 33 schools and an association of private colleges. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/south_carolina\/federal-lawsuit-seeks-to-remove-blaine-amendment-from-south-carolina-constitution\/article_4c70af4e-9d2e-11eb-82f9-5fca4c7358ed.html\"\u003EThe Center Square\u003C\/a\u003E reports on the lawsuit.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/7274699167096072566"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/7274699167096072566"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/lawsuit-claims-south-carolinas-blaine.html","title":"Lawsuit Claims South Carolina's Blaine Amendment Is Unconstitutional"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-8881626810946949326"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-15T07:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-15T07:00:00.624-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"COVID-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FDA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"FDA Lifts In-Person Dispensing Requirement For Abortion Drug During COVID Emergency"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a letter (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sba-list.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/govdoc20210412-226601.pdf\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the\u0026nbsp;Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine announced that during the COVID-19 emergency, it is lifting the in-person dispensing requirement for the abortion drug\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Mifepristone. The agency said that it was exercising enforcement discretion because of the additional COVID-related risks to patients and healthcare personnel involved in clinic visits solely to obtain the drug.\u0026nbsp; It likewise will allow prescriptions for Mifepristone to be filled by mail. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/fda-lifts-restriction-on-remote-prescriptions-of-abortion-drugs\/\"\u003EWashington Free Beacon\u003C\/a\u003E reports on criticism of the FDA's move by Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion groups.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/8881626810946949326"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/8881626810946949326"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/fda-lifts-in-person-dispensing.html","title":"FDA Lifts In-Person Dispensing Requirement For Abortion Drug During COVID Emergency"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-7875243252913231725"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-14T09:49:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-14T09:49:45.656-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"6th Circuit Judges Debate Eugenics In Yesterday's Abortion Decision"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EYesterday's important 6th Circuit \u003Ci\u003Een banc\u003C\/i\u003E decision (see \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/6th-circuit-en-banc-upholds-ohios-ban.html\"\u003Eprior posting\u003C\/a\u003E) upholding Ohio's statute barring doctors from knowingly performing Down-syndrome motivated abortions includes interesting debates among the various judges on the relevance of the historic eugenics movement. This focus builds on a 2019 concurring opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court by Justice Thomas in \u003Ci\u003EBox v. Planned Parenthood\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(See \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/supreme-court-upholds-part-of-indiana.html\"\u003Eprior posting\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;Here is an example of the exchanges between the 6th Circuit judges in yesterday's opinions:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJudge Griffin concurring (at pg. 36):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI write separately to emphasize Ohio’s compelling state interest in prohibiting its physicians from knowingly engaging in the practice of eugenics....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany think that eugenics ended with the horrors of the Holocaust. Unfortunately, it did not. The philosophy and the pure evil that motivated Hitler and Nazi Germany to murder millions of innocent lives continues today. Eugenics was the root of the Holocaust and is a motivation for many of the selective abortions that occur today.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJudge Donald dissenting (at pg. 108):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E... Ohio’s and the various concurrences’ invocations of the term “eugenics” fail to acknowledge the difference between (1) the purpose with which a woman may decide to have an abortion after a Down-syndrome diagnosis, and (2) the goals of eugenics as a means of “improving stock” .... Put simply, the use of the term “eugenics” ignores the difference between a private choice and a social movement. I find it exceedingly, if not undeniably, unlikely that a woman choosing an abortion because of a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis is doing so with any intention of improving the quality of humankind.... Rather, she likely makes the decision based on a multitude of deeply personal factors, including her financial and emotional ability to commit to raising a child with Down syndrome.... The state legislature now commandeers that personal decision-making, which interferes not only in a profoundly private personal decision, but also does violence to the ethical norm of patient autonomy, likely leading to doctors withholding information from patients and patients concealing information from their doctors....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/7875243252913231725"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/7875243252913231725"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/6th-circuit-judges-debate-eugenics-in.html","title":"6th Circuit Judges Debate Eugenics In Yesterday's Abortion Decision"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-6908571168045264218"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-14T07:05:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-14T09:53:03.316-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Abortion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ohio"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"6th Circuit En Banc Upholds Ohio's Ban On Doctors Knowingly Performing Abortions Because of Down Syndrome"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EIn \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/21a0083p-06.pdf\"\u003EPreterm-Cleveland v. McCloud\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(6th Cir., April 13, 2021), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting \u003Ci\u003Een banc\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;in a complicated set of fragmented opinions spanning 111 pages upheld Ohio's statute which prohibits a doctor from performing an abortion if the doctor has knowledge\u0026nbsp;that the woman’s reason, in whole or part, for having the abortion is that she does not want a child with Down syndrome. The vote was 9-7.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEight judges joined several portions of Judge Batchelder's opinion to make these portions the opinion of the court.\u0026nbsp; Critical to the majority opinion was the fact that the law does not apply so long as the woman does not disclose the reason for her abortion to the doctor performing it. Indeed, according to the majority, even if the doctor performing the abortion learns of the fetal-Down-syndrome diagnosis, \"knowledge of the diagnosis is not knowledge of the reason.\" With that understanding, the majority went on to say in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe right to an abortion before viability is \u003Ci\u003Enot \u003C\/i\u003Eabsolute. The “[S]tate may regulate abortion before viability as long as it does not impose an undue burden on a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.”...\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EH.B. 214 advances the State’s legitimate interests and will not prevent a large fraction of the women it affects from obtaining abortions. As mentioned, H.B. 214 furthers three valid and legitimate interests by protecting: (1) the Down syndrome community from the stigma associated with the practice of Down-syndrome-selective abortions, (2) pregnant women and their families from coercion by doctors who advocate abortion of Down-syndrome-afflicted fetuses, and (3) the integrity and ethics of the medical profession by preventing doctors from becoming witting participants in Down-syndrome-selective abortions. These are legitimate interests....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe burdens here are that H.B. 214 will (1) prevent a full, open, and honest conversation with the doctor who will perform the abortion by forcing the woman to withhold this reason for the abortion and (2) require her to engage in “doctor shopping” to find a doctor who is unaware of her reason for having the abortion....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOhio’s broad definition of knowledge does not alter the reality that the woman remains in control of who knows, and who does not know, the reason for her abortion. And the record simply does not support the notion that a large number of doctors would independently learn of the reason such that it would place a substantial obstacle in the path of most women seeking abortions.... Ohio’s knowledge requirement does not amount to an undue burden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnly five judges joined other parts of Judge Batchelder's opinion. Four separate concurring opinions were filed, as were six separate dissenting opinions. \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/04\/13\/ohio-down-syndrome-abortion-ban-sixth-circuit-appeals\/7204054002\/\"\u003ECincinnati Enquirer\u003C\/a\u003E reports on the decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUPDATE: For additional discussion of the case, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/6th-circuit-judges-debate-eugenics-in.html\"\u003Esee this later posting\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/6908571168045264218"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/6908571168045264218"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/6th-circuit-en-banc-upholds-ohios-ban.html","title":"6th Circuit En Banc Upholds Ohio's Ban On Doctors Knowingly Performing Abortions Because of Down Syndrome"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-3734755435137377734"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-14T07:00:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-14T07:00:00.520-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Church services"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"COVID-19"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Multi-Faith Group Issues Statement Questioning Religious Exemptions From COVID Orders"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Monday, some 27 religious organizations representing various Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions issued a statement (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/interfaithalliance.org\/cms\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-4-12-National-Faith-Orgs-Statement-Opposing-Religious-Exemptions-to-Emergency-Orders-Interfaith-Alliance-FINAL.pdf\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E) expressing concern that states are going too far in adopting legislation exempting houses of worship from COVID-19 health orders and other emergency orders.\u0026nbsp; The statement reads in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe appreciate the desire to protect our right to worship and gather for religious activities. Too often, however, these bills are overly broad and could result in policies that threaten public health and safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReligious freedom is a fundamental American value, and the freedom to worship in accordance with one’s spiritual practices and traditions is a right of the highest order. At the same time, religious freedom does not demand tying the hands of public officials who are trying to safeguard public health as they respond to unforeseen events like pandemics, natural disasters and other emergencies. Indeed, all of our denominations have found creative ways to provide opportunities for worship during the pandemic, recognizing the spiritual sustenance and sense of community that religious practices provide....\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETimes of public crisis demand that all community leaders—religious, secular, and governmental—work together to find solutions. By giving religious gatherings a pre-emptive exemption from future emergency orders, we fear that these bills will unintentionally paint religious communities as part of the problem, not the solution, and thereby undercut our ability to partner with community leaders to defeat the crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003E[Thanks to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/bjconline.org\/bjc-other-faith-organizations-issue-statement-on-state-legislation-041321\/\"\u003EDon Byrd\u003C\/a\u003E at BJC for the lead.]\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/3734755435137377734"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/3734755435137377734"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/multi-faith-group-issues-statement.html","title":"Multi-Faith Group Issues Statement Questioning Religious Exemptions From COVID Orders"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-8648333040202418500"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-13T17:03:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-13T17:03:48.919-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Joe Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ramadan"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Statement on the Beginning of Ramadan"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EYesterday President Biden issued a Statement on the Beginning of Ramadan (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/12\/statement-from-the-president-on-the-beginning-of-ramadan\/\"\u003Efull text\u003C\/a\u003E), saying in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn my first day as President, I was proud to end the shameful Muslim travel ban, and I will continue to stand up for human rights everywhere, including for Uyghurs in China, Rohingya in Burma, and Muslim communities all over the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs we remember those who we have lost since last Ramadan, we are hopeful for brighter days ahead.\u0026nbsp; The Holy Qur’an reminds us that “God is the light of the heavens and earth,” who leads us out of darkness to the light.\u0026nbsp; Although our White House festivities will be held virtually this Ramadan, Jill and I look forward to resuming the traditional White House Eid celebration in person next year, inshallah.\u0026nbsp; We wish your families an inspiring and rewarding month.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/8648333040202418500"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/8648333040202418500"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/biden-statement-on-beginning-of-ramadan.html","title":"Biden Statement on the Beginning of Ramadan"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-2505833942179828061"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-13T16:20:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-13T16:20:00.422-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Prisons"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Qur'an"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Sues Prison Officials To Obtain A Quran"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EAccording to reports from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunger-strikes-lawsuits-russia-europe-moscow-aae9f17e9941f073617d6c75931b9971\"\u003EAP\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/547924-navalny-sues-russian-prison-for-withholding-quran\"\u003EThe Hill\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is suing prison officials to obtain access to volumes of the Quran with commentary that he purchased. AP says in part:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENavalny has faced criticism over the years for using nationalist rhetoric regarding migrants, many of whom arrive in Russia from predominantly Muslim nations in Central Asia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe said Tuesday he had realized his “development as a Christian requires studying the Quran,” adding that he decided to become “the Quran champion among Russian non-Muslim politicians.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrison authorities say that they must screen all books for extremism before making them available to prisoners, and that this will take three months. Navalny is in the midst of a hunger strike and prison officials are threatening to force feed him.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2505833942179828061"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/2505833942179828061"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/russian-opposition-leader-navalny-sues.html","title":"Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Sues Prison Officials To Obtain A Quran"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206391.post-5379388159647936678"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-13T07:00:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-13T07:00:00.595-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ramadan Began Last Night; Minnesota Gives Religious Exemption From Curfew Order"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/ramadan-2021-mubarak-us-when-is\/792380\/\"\u003ERamadan\u003C\/a\u003E began last night. As reported by the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/gov-walz-sets-7-p-m-curfew-in-hennepin-ramsey-anoka-dakota-counties\/600045134\/\"\u003EMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003C\/a\u003E, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's 7:00 pm curfew order for several counties-- issued after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed by police in a Minneapolis suburb-- contains an exemption for those traveling to and from religious services. The exemption was clarified after the Minnesota chapter of CAIR issued a statement calling for such an exemption.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/5379388159647936678"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/12206391\/posts\/default\/5379388159647936678"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/ramadan-began-last-night-minnesota.html","title":"Ramadan Began Last Night; Minnesota Gives Religious Exemption From Curfew Order"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Howard Friedman"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/14382656960754783109"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-v5bWCnmUtK8\/XKQZQzKGGPI\/AAAAAAAAAhQ\/3zJ80aLPerQqnh90B9GWdW9BdlsBGubHgCK4BGAYYCw\/s113\/130813-175600.jpg"}}]}]}});