A Wisconsin man won a settlement last week from the nation’s largest employer in a religious liberty case. Ed Hedican applied in 2016 for a job as assistant manager at the Hayward, Wisconsin, Walmart store. Hedican is a member of…
Abortion ranks as one of those controversies in which excited partisans imagine everyone as taking their side. This leads to pro-life people alienating all sorts of conversation partners who, unbeknownst to them, aborted a kid or two or 10 and…
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments last week in a case with substantial implications for religious schools’ freedom to require their employees to uphold and practice certain beliefs. The case concerns a guidance counselor, Lynn Starkey, who was…
Can we learn to live without “abortion rights”? That’s the question we need to answer calmly and rationally in the furor erupting over the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion that concludes: “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.” It…
Washington — Do you remember the days when our liberal friends were forever claiming the moral high ground on almost any issue no matter how devoid of moral content the issue might be? They claimed it, of course, on issues…
The leak of the Supreme Court’s February draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was a political act that proved, redundantly, how thoroughly politics has invaded the court. Equally important is the fact that the leak was a…
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court discovered a woman’s right to abortion hidden in the unwritten “penumbras” of the Constitution. Prior to this judicial magic trick, abortion had been subject to…
In a strike for the First Amendment, the Supreme Court Monday ruled that the city of Boston could not prevent a private group from flying a Christian flag on a flagpole located on government property for a commemorative event when…
Amid all the hyperventilating over the SCOTUS leak, I am hearing and reading analyses I believe are wrong in some cases, miss salient points, and miss the leak’s real ramifications. We live in a 24-hour news cycle where cable news…
