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… First Amendment ensures that Emilee can decline to express messages that contradict her beliefs. Who is Emilee Carpenter? Emilee Carpenter is a Christian artist who tells stories through her photographs … a view of marriage that contradicts this belief, no matter who asks. But Emilee read news reports about other …

… law required Lorie to create websites expressing messages about marriage she doesn’t believe. Thankfully, the … to ensure people have access to basic goods and services. No one should be denied food at a restaurant, a ticket at a … do—ensure access to goods and services while also ensuring no one is forced to say or celebrate something they don’t …

Love seeks the good of the other, even when that might cause us to be unfairly hated or called hateful.

… issues with this amended final version:   1. There are no real protections for religious individuals or … true threats to religious individuals and organizations. No one thinks the Respect for Marriage Act requires churches …

… pageant’s right to have all-female contestants to express messages consistent with its beliefs. Written by Alliance … to perform in beauty pageants designed for women, and no organization should be forced to express a message … to what it desires to express. The First Amendment says no.” “Ignoring the biological reality that men and women are …

… most sacred of all property.” Thomas Jefferson said that no “provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man, … So we can join with like-minded people to amplify the messages and values we want to promote. It may be easy to … views on marriage. Another court likewise ensured that a Christian philosophy professor could talk about gender …

… life to the people and their elected representatives. That allowed Arizona to again enforce its pro-life law protecting … saying it did not repeal the state’s pre- Roe law, created no right to abortion, and legalized no unlawful abortion. Despite all this, Planned Parenthood …

… D.C., headquarters of the Family Research Council (FRC), a Christian group dedicated to defending life and family … attacks and threats will not change her commitment to Christian beliefs. “I’m lucky — blessed, really — that I … Lorie Smith , this means the freedom to decline to express messages that violate your deeply held beliefs. Jack and …

… worldwide. The day after Christmas, I began receiving messages from my lawyer friends in northern Nigeria. Images … and a violation of international law. Another woman, Christian mother of five Rhoda Jatau, was imprisoned for 18 … sharing a video that condemned the lynching of another Christian woman, Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu. Her neighborhood …

… in the text of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or … Clause required it to reject the flying of the Christian flag, and the Supreme Court had to reject that … a 20-year period (1995-2015). New York City public schools allowed private groups and individuals to use vacant …