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The Perverse Effects of the “All Comers” Requirement
Vanderbilt University The recent decision by the California State University system to enforce its “all comers” policy against religious groups on its 23 campuses is the latest in a disturbing and (at...
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Flowers and Headscarves, Oh My!
Have you heard the one about the Christian florist who declined to sell flowers for a gay wedding? She got sued by the Washington AG and by the ACLU. In a 60-page opinion, a state judge ruled against...
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Why Higher Education Needs Religious Liberty
Observing from afar the clamor over Indiana’s new religious freedom law, we in higher education are especially attuned to how that state’s colleges and universities have responded. First, some...
View ArticleThe Confines of the New Moral Consensus
The bitter disputes sparked by Indiana’s version of the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” and the controversies that provoked the act, are the latest episode in our ongoing culture war. Its...
View ArticleDoes California Care about Students who Question their Sexuality?
California Senate Bill 1146 (SB 1146) created an earthquake of controversy. “California Bill Would Ultimately Erase Religious Schools” ran a headline over at the Federalist. Last week a host of...
View ArticleThe Federalist Society is Under Attack (Again)
As has been widely reported, a recently-released draft advisory opinion of the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United States—a 15-member group of judges responsible...
View ArticleFreedom for Associations
If the quality of a book can be determined from the stature of its critics, then I have written a very good book. The distinguished legal scholar Paul Horwitz graciously describes my arguments in Why...
View ArticleWhere Two or Three Are Gathered
Today, April 26, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Americans for Prosperity v. Rodriquez. The case involves two California non-profits challenging the state’s requirement that they—and every...
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