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With the passage of a new security law in 2020, the Chinese government gained more power to suppress pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which the regime viewed as a direct threat to its power.
Princeton scholar Robert George told a Religious Freedom Institute gathering, ‘We do everything we can, within reason, to enable men and women of goodwill of every tradition of faith and shade of belief to pursue the spiritual quest and honor their consciences…’
The case of Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, as argued before the Supreme Court, is not about free exercise of religion but freedom of speech, and almost certainly it will be decided that way.
COMMENTARY: In ‘Kennedy v. Bremerton School District,’ the nation’s highest court will clarify the Constitution’s protection of the religious expression of teachers, coaches and other public servants.
The court agreed Feb. 22 to consider ‘whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.’
‘To tell a Catholic school how to explain its faith undermines the liberty of the members of its community,’ the court wrote in its 7-0 decision.
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