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Religious Conservatives Won the Legal Battle Over COVID-19, But Not the War
Essay By Jenna Reinbold | July 13, 2021 Email Print Pastor Ché Ahn of Harvest Rock Church holds a news conference in February of 2021, after the Supreme Court lifted California’s COVID-related ban on indoor church services. Ahn’s Pasadena church had sued, arguing the pandemic restrictions violated their religious liberty. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Few are likely to remember the year 2020 with much fondness.
The world is marching towards-not away from-universal human rights
Despite pessimism about the future of human rights, data on treaty ratification and reservations suggest that we are marching toward universality. The debate over whether human rights are indeed “universal” or are to be understood and applied differently depending on national, regional, cultural or religious contexts (i.e., “cultural relativism”) is well known.
Colombia’s constrained peace process: how courts alter peace-making
The Colombia case shows international courts do impact local peace-making, but in ways more subtle and nuanced than commonly claimed. On June 23, 2016, after 50 years of fighting, the government of Colombia and the FARC-EP agreed to bring the region’s longest-lasting war to an end. This latest accord, which focused on demobilization and disarmament, is part of a larger peace process, comprised of a range of issues, from land-use to political participation to accountability and justice.
Seeing the myth in human rights
To call human rights a “myth” would appear to discredit them, but myth was central in drafting the Universal Declaration. Is it possible that human rights are a myth? To ask this question is likely to be perceived as advocating for a dismissal or even a rejection of human rights. Indeed, when the term “myth” is used in conjunction with human rights, it is almost always done with the intention of discrediting either the idea or the substance of human rights.
Building a domestic human rights constituency in India
To fight the chilling effect created by new laws on foreign funding, Indian human rights NGOs need to develop support for funding among citizens. Though difficult, in the long run groups that have public legitimacy will be more difficult for governments to control and suppress. As head of the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, Ravi Nair has first-hand knowledge of the Indian government’s oppressive behaviour towards human rights organizations critical of the state.
Bringing back waterboarding? Torture policy in Trump’s America
As the US prepares for president Trump, anyone who cares about human rights should be alarmed that he has pledged to restore torture as one of his top five priorities.
For Neil Gorsuch, Religious Freedom Hasn't Gone Far Enough
Essay By Jenna Reinbold | August 25, 2020 Email Print Earlier this summer, as the Supreme Court began to hand down its final decisions, political liberals were singing the praises of Justice Neil Gorsuch. The Trump appointee penned the majority opinion in a landmark case that extended employment anti-discrimination protections to LGBT Americans. Following almost immediately on that decision’s heels, however, came a series of church-state cases that gave many of those same liberals pause.
International Law as a Belief System. By Jean d'Aspremont. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 176. $116.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9781108421874. | Journal of Law and Religion | Cambridge Core
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Who Benefits from Conflicts Over Religious Freedom?
Essay By Jenna Reinbold | August 20, 2019 Email Print (Getty/AFP/ Brendan Smialowski) In November of 1993, members of the U.S. Congress did something that today seems almost inconceivable: they reached near-unanimous agreement on a pressing political question—and not just any question, but a fundamental question concerning the proper parameters of the separation of church and state. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act garnered a unanimous vote in the House and a vote of 97-3 in the Senate.
Confused about religious freedom and LGBT rights? Most Americans are
In a June 25, 2015 file photo, John Becker of Silver Spring, Md., waves a rainbow flag in support of gay marriage outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) According to a new PRRI survey, ignorance on these topics transcends political orientation, gender and age Jenna Reinbold June 11, 2019 2:00PM (UTC) Jenna Reinbold is a PRRI Public Fellow and an associate professor of religion at Colgate University.
Anti-LGBTQ bill’s target was the Supreme Court, not tolerant Kansans
Jenna Reinbold, associate professor of religion at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York The Kansas Legislature had a brush with notoriety early in its 2019-20 session: On Feb. 13, seven members of the state House of Representatives introduced a bill designed to push back against LGBTQ rights in the name of protecting the free exercise of religion.
Seeing the myth in human rights
Is it possible that human rights are a myth? To ask this question is likely to be perceived as advocating for a dismissal or even a rejection of human rights. Indeed, when the term “myth” is used in conjunction with human rights, it is almost always done with the intention of discrediting either the idea or the substance of human rights. This tendency to associate “myth” with error or duplicity actually prevents us from recognizing some important insights.
American Christians and the Trump vote: what’s law got to do with it? | OUPblog
The 2016 US election is over, and now begins the elaborate work of attempting to understand why Americans voted the way they did last year. Amid soul-searching about media bias, liberal smugness, and misleading data, many commentators have begun to set themselves to the task of making sense of the surprising proportion of American Christians – both Protestant and Catholic – who ultimately cast their ballots for a candidate such as Donald Trump.
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