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  1. Dumb & Dumber https://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2014/07/05/dumb--dumber-n1857865
    F-Religion. F-America.” “I will not take my dollars or my less-than uterus to Hobby Lobby again.” … Hobby Lobby was simply posing the question is government allowed to violate the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion … of religion exempts them from committing acts of murder according to their moral conscience.…
  2. Resentment Behind the Waning Patriotism of Liberal Americans https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2014/07/04/res…t-behind-the-waning-patriotism-of-liberal-americans-n1858842
    the court were like Iranian mullahs, behaving "in ways that are disadvantageous to women but which prop up them because of their religion…
  3. Happy Fourth Despite It All https://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2014/07/04/happy-fourth-despite-it-all-n1858724
    What defines us is not language or ethnicity or religion but a shared dedication to certain propositions. … Seventy-three percent of Frenchmen told Gallup in 2007-2008 that religion is not important in their lives, along with 63 percent of…
  4. Supreme Court Slaps Down the Obama Administration https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2014/07/04/supreme-court-slaps-down-the-obama-administration-n1858711
    thing is abundantly clear, namely that this administration has a crabbed view of the First Amendment right of free exercise of religion…
  5. A New Evangelizing Foreign Policy https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2014/07/04/a-new-evangelizing-foreign-policy-n1858632
    this administration, there is no respect for opposing views on marriage or gender or homosexuality, especially those based on religion…
  6. A Blow For Liberty, Or: The Supremes Choose Life https://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2014/07/03/a-blow-for-liberty-or-the-supremes-choose-life-n1858663
    Specifically, the freedom of religion enshrined in the First Amendment.…
  7. Hobby Lobby Decision a Victory for All https://townhall.com/columnists/kathrynlopez/2014/07/03/hobby-lobby-decision-a-victory-for-all-n1858631
    control, as a rainbow-colored sign greeted traffic, insisting that the religious-liberty claim at issue was "Bigotry Disguised as Religion…
  8. Culture Challenge of the Week: Tyrannical Rule versus Independence https://townhall.com/columnists/rebeccahagelin/2014/07/03/cu…nge-of-the-week-tyrannical-rule-versus-independence-n1858564
    either the endless search for more—more wealth, more excitement, more control—or the legalistic monotony of what some might call “religion…
  9. The Real Meaning of the Hobby Lobby Decision https://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2014/07/03/the-real-meaning-of-the-hobby-lobby-decision-n1858314
    The right celebrated the verdict as a stinging defeat for an administration at war with religion, while the left decried it as the … Religion has always been an emotional topic with great potential to provoke conflict among people of different faiths.…
  10. Poll: Majority Support Hobby Lobby Decision https://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahjeanseman/2014/07/02/poll-majority-support-hobby-lobby-decision-n1858202
    has not shown that it lacks other means of achieving its desired goal without imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion…
  11. Hobby Lobby Will Kill All The Things, Especially Women https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2014/07/02/women-who…the-hobby-lobby-decision-are-traitors-or-something-n1858223
    , Joseph seemed to trip up the pastor when he asked if corporations have First Amendment rights, which includes the freedom of religion … The second issue is whether the massive fines that Hobby Lobby faced substantially burdened its exercise of religion.…
  12. Driving the American Dream https://townhall.com/columnists/marcorubio/2014/07/02/what-drives-the-american-dream-n1858185
    By outlawing discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or country of origin, the Civil Rights Act gave legal backing to our core…
  13. The Hobbled Hobby Lobby Decision https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2014/07/02/the-hobbled-hobby-lobby-decision-n1857996
    meet all the requirements set up by Religious Freedom Restoration Act for when the government can violate the free exercise of religion … RFRA says Congress can make laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion for certain people in certain situations. … This is where the right to life, freedom of religion and health care stand in America today.…
  14. A God-Given Right To Break the Law https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2014/07/02/a-godgiven-right-to-break-the-law-n1857930
    Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a 1993 law that prohibits the government from "substantially burden(ing) a person's exercise of religion … The government clearly should not allow the ritual killing of nonconsenting humans, no matter how important it is to someone's religion … More generally, religion should never be a license to violate people's rights.…
  15. Thumbing His Nose at Congress, the Constitution, and the People https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2014/07/02/thum…is-nose-at-congress-the-constitution-and-the-people-n1857860
    This week, the Supreme Court leveled another blow to Obamacare, based on freedom of religion.…
  16. The Left Can't Stop Distorting the Hobby Lobby Decision https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/07/01/the-left-cant-stop-lying-about-the-hobby-lobby-decision-n1857728
    together people – men – to get them to behave in ways that are disadvantageous to women but which prop up them because of their religion…
  17. ISIL Calls on All Muslims to Swear Allegiance https://townhall.com/columnists/nightwatch/2014/07/01/isil-calls-on-all-muslims-to-swear-allegiance-n1857570
    Comment: President al-Sisi and all his predecessors, including Mursi, have understood that religion can become politics when it strays…
  18. Hollywood Inspiration Wants To Bring Viewers Back To Church https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhanlon/2014/07/01/hollyw…d-inspiration-wants-to-bring-viewers-back-to-church-n1857540
    While his faith in God and the devil persisted during that tenure, he often didn’t actively practice his religion.…
  19. Free to Choose vs. Cost-Free Access https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2014/07/01/free-to-choose-vs-costfree-access-n1857538
    Constitution, let Washington pass no regulations prohibiting the free exercise of religion.…
  20. Scope for Conscience https://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2014/07/01/scope-for-conscience-n1857406
    Religion, the government essentially argued, was something that people do on Sunday mornings or in specifically religious organizations … But a for-profit corporation, the government argued, could not possibly "exercise religion." … RFRA forbids the government from "substantially burdening" a person's free exercise of religion, unless the burden is in furtherance…
  21. Analysis: Today's SCOTUS Victories Set Narrow, Not Sweeping, Precedents https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/06/30/analysis…conservative-scotus-victories-limited-not-sweeping-n1857311
    SCOTUS: "HHS's contraception mandate substantially burdens the exercise of religion.…
  22. Decision Day at the Supreme Court For Hobby Lobby and Obamacare Contraception Mandate https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/06/30/decisi…for-hobby-lobby-and-obamacare-contraception-mandate-n1857232
    Supreme Court is set to release its decision about whether private businesses like Hobby Lobby have the right to exercise freedom of religion … There are two broad questions at issue here: whether private businesses have the right to exercise their freedom of religion either … this case are confident in the arguments that were made before the court on this issue earlier this year and believe freedom of religion…
  23. The Fragmentary South https://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2014/07/19/the-fragmentary-south-n1863650
    But your old-fashioned, holy-roller, speakin'-in-tongues, damnation-and-hellfire brand of religion, topped off by a fistfight. … Or you would if there was still a South somewhere, the old-time South full of old-time religion, which means full of old-time sin.…
  24. Muslims Attack Jews in Paris Synagogue https://townhall.com/columnists/larryprovost/2014/07/19/muslims-attack-jews-in-paris-synagogue-n1863340
    Islam is a religion plagued by a perverse amount of violence.…
  25. Schumer: You Don’t Have to Convert But You Might Not Be Able to Do Business Either https://townhall.com/columnists/charlottehays/2014/07/18/sch…ert-but-you-might-not-be-able-to-do-business-either-n1863492
    "We wouldn’t tell the owners of Hobby Lobby to convert to a different religion or disobey their religion," the New York Democrat said…