My previous post proposed a legal test for deciding cases involving individuals who claim their conscience does not permit them to sell goods or provide services to someone from the LGBT community who seeks a service or good directly related to their claimed status. I ignored the “bathroom bill” in North Carolina, which has caused […]
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Bathroom Bills and Transgender Rights
21 Apr 2016
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A Test for “Conscientious Objectors”
19 Apr 2016
It’s time to revisit the issue of LGBT rights and legislation to protect individuals from prosecution for refusal to provide some service or good to a homosexual or homosexual couple. As many know by now, both Georgia and North Carolina passed legislation that would either restrict public restroom use to biologically determined individuals or would […]
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Since President Obama has nominated someone for the Supreme Court vacancy, it is tim we took a look at his judicial philosophy. First, a little about him personally and professionally. Judge Merrick Garland was born in Illinois, raised near Chicago, received his law degree from Harvard, one of the usual cast of schools from which […]