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    The Human Cost of the Law: LGBTQ+ Employment Discrimination at the Supreme Court

    October 8, 2019

    FROM THE HUMANIST MAGAZINE | Before and After the Court: The Humanist Interview with Monica L. Miller

    April 23, 2019

    Uh, No, Establishment Clause Law Is Not a “Hot Mess”

    March 18, 2019

    “Narrow Rulings” Mean Little to the Christian Right

    March 5, 2019

    The Cross and American Militarism

    February 26, 2019

    Bladensburg Cross Case FAQs

    February 4, 2019

    The Framers Weren’t Cross Enthusiasts

    December 17, 2018

    Humanists Going All the Way: AHA to Defend Church-State Separation at the Supreme Court

    November 5, 2018

    Ruling against Truth: NIFLA v. Becerra

    June 28, 2018

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    June 28, 2018

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    Uh, No, Establishment Clause Law Is Not a “Hot Mess”

    March 18, 2019

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    David Niose

    This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com.

    This spring the Supreme Court will rule on the American Humanist Association’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a forty-foot Latin cross on public property in Bladensburg, Maryland, and conservatives are hopi...

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    “Narrow Rulings” Mean Little to the Christian Right

    March 5, 2019

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    David Niose

    This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com.

    Scare tactics are an important weapon in the assault on church-state separation. This was on display in the American Humanist Association’s recent Supreme Court argument challenging the so-called Peace Cross, a forty-fo...

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    The Cross and American Militarism

    February 26, 2019

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    David Niose

    This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com.

    As I read pundits commenting on the Bladensburg cross lawsuit (Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, which will be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow) I sometimes...

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    The Framers Weren’t Cross Enthusiasts

    December 17, 2018

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    David Niose

    This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com

    When conservatives discuss legal philosophy, they like to talk history. Under the banner of originalism—the approach to legal analysis that interprets the US Constitution as it was understood at the time of drafting—conse...

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    Post-Kennedy Panic: Justice Kennedy was far from perfect, but how bad will things be now?

    June 27, 2018

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    David Niose

    This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com.

    Panic is in the air. The announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement might have been welcomed by humanists if there was any likelihood that his replacement would be someone whose jurisprudence furthers human-cen...

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    Shake Things Up by Sitting Out the Pledge of Allegiance

    August 9, 2016

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    David Niose

    This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com

    Public schools are supposed to teach kids to think critically, right? Students should be learning to apply rational analysis, assessing evidence, and reaching logical conclusions with the knowledge they’ve accumulated an...

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    False Motives behind “In God We Trust” Police Cruiser Campaigns

    September 28, 2015

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    David Niose

    This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com

    I wasn’t an English major, but it seems to me the phrase “In God We Trust” affirms only one thing: a collective trust in a deity.

    Implicit in that affirmation, of course, is an underlying belief that a deity exists. Dissec...

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    Remembering the Glory Days of Church-State Separation

    June 17, 2015

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    David Niose

     This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com

    June 17 marks the 52nd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Abington School District v. Schempp, that declared unconstitutional a state law requiring public schools to start each day with a reading from the Bi...

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    For Courageous Students: the AHA Has Your Back

    June 8, 2015

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    David Niose

     This post originally appeared on TheHumanist.com

    If America’s Supreme Court justices could have spent a day this spring at Valencia High School, they would have seen decades of legal theory debunked in minutes. Specifically, what transpired in that California school wo...

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