Rick Claybrook

Mar 12, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Rick Claybrook |Helen Dale |Joshua Katz |Zachary Yost

The Supreme Court over the last two decades has repeatedly strengthened the expanded reach of the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses to protect the religious. At the same time, the Court has moved to reduce the weight of the Establishment Clause as a counterbalance to the reach and protections of these other clauses—a counterbalance that it obtained through a “strict separationist” reading of the Establishment Clause.

Jul 25, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Rick Claybrook |Theodore Dalrymple |Graham McAleer |Douglas Murray

The decision in 303 Creative gives those committed to free speech and the free exercise of religion much to celebrate. The Court held that a website designer’s work is “speech” in a constitutional sense, and so she cannot be compelled to prepare messages for same-sex weddings, to which she has religious objections. But artistic vendors are not the only ones who have religious and other objections to same-sex marriage.