https://www.europesays.com/uk/1262967/ Petition in England objects to city council restrictions on street-preaching #BreadOfLifeCommunityChurch #Britain #Colchester #England #FreedomOfReligion #FreedomOfSpeech #GreatBritain #persecution #UK #UnitedKingdom
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A quotation from Felix Frankfurter
Separation means separation, not something less. Jefferson’s metaphor in describing the relation between Church and State speaks of a “wall of separation,” not of a fine line easily overstepped. The public school is at once the symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means for promoting our common destiny. In no activity of the State is it more vital to keep out divisive forces than in its schools, to avoid confusing, not to say fusing, what the Constitution sought to keep strictly apart.
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American jurist, teacher; US Supreme Court Justice (1939–62)
McCollum v. Board of Education 333 U.S. 231 (1948) (concurring)More about this quote: wist.info/frankfurter-felix/86…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #felixfrankfurter #churchandstate #Constitution #education #freedomofreligion #publiceducation #publicschool #religiousfreedom #school #unity
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Iranian woman handed death sentence for ‘blasphemy’ in social media post
By Deepa ParentRights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year
#Capitalpunishment #Humanrights #Globaldevelopment #Protest #Iran #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Worldnews #Socialmedia #Freedomofspeech #Censorship #Freedomofreligion #Sharialaw #Religion #Islam #Humanrights #TheGuardian #DeepaParent
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Iranian woman handed death sentence for ‘blasphemy’ in social media post https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/14/najmeh-amini-blasphemy-death-sentence-insulting-prophet #CapitalPunishment #HumanRights #GlobalDevelopment #Protest #Iran #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #WorldNews #SocialMedia #FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship #FreedomOfReligion #ShariaLaw #Religion #Islam #HumanRights
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1243528/ Eton, Oxford And Britain: What Rees-Mogg Says About A Changing Country #Britain #BritainAndSocialChange #BritishConstitution #BritishIdentity #CollectiveGuilt #DemocracyAndLiberty #England #FreedomOfReligion #GreatBritain #ImmigrationAndIntegration #Multiculturalism #NorthernIreland #Scotland #TFT #TheFridayTimes #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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A quotation from Felix Frankfurter
The preservation of the community from divisive conflicts, of Government from irreconcilable pressures by religious groups, of religion from censorship and coercion, however subtly exercised, requires strict confinement of the State to instruction other than religious, leaving to the individual’s church and home indoctrination in the faith of his choice.
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American jurist, teacher; US Supreme Court Justice (1939–62)
McCollum v. Board of Education 333 U.S. 217 (1948)
[concurring]More about this quote: wist.info/frankfurter-felix/85…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #felixfrankfurter #churchandstate #conflict #division #education #firstamendment #freedomofreligion #government #publiceducation #religion #religiousfreedom #SCOTUS #seculargovernment
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A quotation from Ulysses Grant
Let us all labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion. Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar of money shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, Pagan, or Atheistical tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the Church and the State forever Separate.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) American military leader, US President (1869–77)
Speech (1875-09-25), Address to the Army of the Tennessee, Annual Reunion, Des Moines, IowaMore about this quote: wist.info/grant-ulysses-s/1598…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ulyssesgrant #childrearing #childraising #churchandstate #education #freepress #freespeech #freethought #freedomofreligion #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #parochialschool #publiceducation #religiousfreedom #seculargovernment #secularism
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A quotation from Felix Frankfurter
The nonsectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom. The sharp confinement of the public schools to secular education was a recognition of the need of a democratic society to educate its children, insofar as the State undertook to do so, in an atmosphere free from pressures in a realm in which pressures are most resisted and where conflicts are most easily and most bitterly engendered. Designed to serve as perhaps the most powerful agency for promoting cohesion among a heterogeneous democratic people, the public school must keep scrupulously free from entanglement in the strife of sects.
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American jurist, teacher; US Supreme Court Justice (1939–62)
McCollum v. Board of Education 333 U.S. 216–217 (1948)
[concurring]More about this quote: wist.info/frankfurter-felix/85…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #felixfrankfurter #education #firstamendment #freedom #freedomofreligion #nonsectarian #religiousfreedom #school #SCOTUS #sectarianism #secular #seculargovernment
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/135281/ GHRD exhibition at UNHRC highlights rights concerns of minorities across Asia #AsiaExhibition #EnforcedDisappearances #FreedomOfReligion #Geneva #GenevaEvent #GHRD #HumanRights #MinorityRights #ReligiousDiscrimination #UNHRCSession
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Messed up
#Italy to ban veils in schools, limit foreign #students per class, #Meloni says
The integration of migrants, particularly from #Muslim-majority countries, remains contentious in Italian #politics & society. Debates over #religious symbols, #cultural #integration, #citizenship rules & #immigration policy frequently polarize public opinion.
#FreedomOfReligion #FreedomOfExpression #law #discrimination #education
https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-ban-veils-schools-limit-foreign-students-per-class-meloni-says-2026-09-20/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
Any established church is an established crime, an established slave pen.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 16 “Morgan Le Fay”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/86146/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #church #churchandstate #establishment #freedomofreligion #religiousfreedom
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A quotation from Felix Frankfurter
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, “good fences make good neighbors.”
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American jurist, teacher; US Supreme Court Justice (1939–62)
McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 232 (1948)
[concurring]More about this quote: wist.info/frankfurter-felix/11…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #felixfrankfurter #churchandstate #Constitution #establishment #firstamendment #freedomofreligion #religion #religiousfreedom #SCOTUS
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and prevent any such attempts from being successful. Like all our freedoms, this freedom from religious-group pressure must be constantly defended.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, activist; First Lady of the US (1933–45)
Memoir (1961), The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Part 4, ch. 43 “Unfinished Business”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/85…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #churchandstate #freedomofreligion #religion #religiousfreedom
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I could have given my own sect the preference and made everybody a Presbyterian without any trouble, but that would have been to affront a law of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #connecticutyankee #sectarianism #establishment #freedomofreligion #morality #personalreligion #religion #religiousdiversity #religiousfreedom #religioustolerance #spiritualdevelopment #spirituality
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‘Free up the ganja’: Rastafarians in Kenya fight to legalise marijuana
By Carlos Mureithi in NairobiMarijuana plays a sacred role among Rastafari followers and they say a ruling to criminalise it violates their rights
#Kenya #Cannabis #Worldnews #Society #Africa #Drugs #Religion #Freedomofreligion #TheGuardian #CarlosMureithiinNairobi
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/135511/ Päivi Räsänen appeals conviction to European court #ChristianDemocrats #ECHR #EuropeanCourtOfHumanRights #Finland #FreedomOfReligion #FreedomOfSpeech #HateSpeech #helsinki #PäiviRäsänen #Strasbourg #SupremeCourt
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rpolenz/116985357929926434
Translated from the German by DeepL: “Article 4 of the Basic Law guarantees freedom of religion for ALL religions. The municipality of Penzberg (Weilheim-Schongau district) had made this clear a few days ago at the entrance to the town. Islamophobes from the AfD bubble are showing what they think of the Basic Law.”
AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) is a scourge on the land.
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Päivi Räsänen appeals conviction to European court
Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen has appealed her conviction for ethnic agitation to the European Court of Human Rights,…
#Finland #FI #Europe #Europa #EU #ChristianDemocrats #ECHR #europeancourtofhumanrights #finland #freedomofreligion #freedomofspeech #hatespeech #PäiviRäsänen #strasbourg #Suomi #SupremeCourt #uutiset
https://www.europesays.com/3153224/ -
Päivi Räsänen appeals conviction to European court https://www.byteseu.com/2226907/ #ChristianDemocrats #ECHR #EuropeanCourtOfHumanRights #Finland #FreedomOfReligion #FreedomOfSpeech #HateSpeech #PäiviRäsänen #Strasbourg #SupremeCourt
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Québec’s Bill 9 doesn’t just ban symbols — it bans obligations
#Quebec #Canada #Bill9 #Bill21 #ReligiousFreedom #Law #HumanRights #Islam #CharterRights #Secularism #Faith #SupremeCourt #Politics #QuebecPolitics #CivilLiberties #FreedomOfReligion #Politics
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Enoch Burke Ordered to Pay Over €200,000 in Fines
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CW: US Politics
Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible https://theconversation.com/why-removing-a-distinct-religious-code-for-native-american-military-service-members-will-make-their-needs-invisible-286226 @TheConversationUS
The codes serve a real purpose. They let the military estimate how many service members practice a given faith, assign chaplains trained in that tradition, and plan for religious holidays, dietary restrictions and burial rites.
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/332194/ Kenya denies Rastafarians the right to smoke weed #AfricanHistory #BritishColonialRule #Cannabis #dreadlocks #DrugLaws #FreedomOfReligion #HighCourt #IndependenceFighters #Kenya #KenyaLaw #KenyanCourt #KenyanHistory #marijuana #MauMau #PanAfricanism #RastafariTradition #Rastafarians #RecreationalUse #ReligiousFreedoms #ReligiousGrounds #vegetarianism #weed #YoungPeople
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LGBTQI+ artists have been targeted for ‘insulting Christianity’. To queer people, this feels particularly cruel | James Thorpe
By James ThorpeA theatre pop-up in a former Sydney church has been accused of ‘offensive trade’. But if causing offence can lead to eviction, every artist is vulnerable
#LGBTQrights #Sydney #Australianews #Culture #Artsfunding #NewSouthWales #NewSouthWalespolitics #Religion #Christianity #Freedomofspeech #Freedomofreligion #TheGuardian #JamesThorpe
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Trump's Religious Liberty Commission says it's defending religious freedom, but its final report reads like a roadmap for Christian Nationalism
This agenda threatens the religious freedom of everyone who doesn't share the commission's theology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLDQtvSilfo
#FriendlyAtheist #FreedomOfReligion #USfascism #uspol #secularism #theology #ChurchTax #christian #religiousfreedom #FuckTrump #ChristinaNationalism #TrumpRegime #ReligiousLibertyCommission
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Antisemitism isn’t always overt. A torrent of suspicion is questioning Jewish Australians’ loyalty to the country we love | Josh Burns
By Josh BurnsWe don’t want debate to be silenced. But the dehumanisation and diminishing of our experiences has to end
#Royalcommissiononantisemitismandsocialcohesion #Antisemitism #Australianews #Australianpolitics #Melbourne #Victoria #Laborparty #Race #Freedomofspeech #Freedomofreligion #Judaism #JoshBurns
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Antisemitism isn’t always overt. A torrent of suspicion is questioning Jewish Australians’ loyalty to the country we love | Josh Burns https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/antisemitism-jewish-australians-josh-burns-mp-comment-ntwnfb #RoyalCommissionOnAntisemitismAndSocialCohesion #Antisemitism #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #Melbourne #Victoria #LaborParty #Race #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfReligion #Judaism
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#Texas Approves #Bible Readings for 5M Public #School Students
-So much for #FreedomOfReligion!!
https://ground.news/article/texas-board-advances-bible-reading-list-and-curriculum-overhaul?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share -
The #Rastafari faith is rooted in 1930s Jamaica, growing as a response by Black people to white colonial oppression. Its beliefs are a melding of Old Testament teachings and a desire to return to Africa. Its message was spread across the world in the 1970s by Jamaican music icons Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, two of the faith’s most famous exponents.
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Landor sued after his release, but lower courts dismissed the case. The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals lamented Landor’s treatment but said the law doesn’t allow him to hold prison officials liable for damages.
#Louisiana wrote that “the state has amended its prison grooming policy to ensure that nothing like petitioner’s alleged experience can occur.”
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At his first 2 stops, ofcls respected his beliefs. But things changed when he got to the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center in Cottonport, ~80 mi (130 km) NW of Baton Rouge, for the final 3 weeks of his term.
A prison guard took the copy of the ruling Landor carried & tossed it in the trash, acc/to court records. Then the warden ordered guards to cut his dreadlocks. While 2 guards restrained him, a third shaved his head to the scalp, records show.
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No one defended what happened to Landor during his 5-month prison term in 2020. When he entered the prison system, he carried a copy of an appeals court ruling in another inmate’s case holding that cutting #religious prisoners’ dreadlocks violated the #federal #law.
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The justices refused to apply the rationale from their decision in 2020 that allowed #Muslim men to sue over their inclusion on the FBI’s no-fly list under a sister statute, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act [ #RFRA ].
The #DOJ, which argued against the plaintiffs in the no-fly list case in #Trump’s first Republican admin, had sided with Landor.
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The justices condemned what happened to the former inmate, Damon Landor. But they ruled that a federal #law designed to protect the #ReligiousRights of inmates does not permit lawsuits for #MoneyDamages even when rights are violated.
#SCOTUS agreed with lower courts that without exception had ruled that the law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act [ #RLUIPA ], can’t be used to hold those who violate inmates’ rights financially responsible.
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I guess it’s only protected if it’s *their* #religion.
#SCOTUS rules #Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks.
#law #discrimination #FreedomOfReligion
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-prison-dreadlocks-rastafari-louisiana-f9b4d53346daee56335185542db3d4ec -
Just updated yesterday's blog post on freedom of religion to include freedom from religion.
Random Thoughts on Freedom of Religion
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2026/06/random-thoughts-on-freedom-of-religion.html
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Opinion: Calling on San Antonio to shun Ye’s antisemitic views https://www.rawchili.com/nba/766756/ #antisemitism #Basketball #FreedomOfReligion #KanyeWest #MitchJohnson #NBA #SanAntonio #SanAntonioSpurs #SanAntonio #SanAntonioSpurs #spurs
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A Diocese Tries to Protect Its 29-Foot Jesus From Trump’s Border Wall
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My latest blog post
Random Thoughts on Freedom of Religion
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2026/06/random-thoughts-on-freedom-of-religion.html
#FreedomOfReligion #HumanRights #HateSpeech #Antisemitism #GazaGenocide
