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Compelled Speech? The 303 Creative SCOTUS Case

Posted on December 27, 2022 by David E Smith

Not much time has passed since Christian baker Jack Phillips fought to defend his choice not to make cakes celebrating homosexual unions (2018), and Christian florist Baronelle Stutzman dealt with multiple lawsuits regarding her choice not to arrange flowers for similar functions (2021). Yet, earlier this December, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for 303 Creative v. Elenis, a case which is shaping up to be the next high-profile skirmish between the homosexual movement and Christian providers of wedding services. The civil rights snipers are at the same old game again—this time zeroing in on Christian wedding website …

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged 303 Creative v. Elenis, Baronelle Stutzman, blasphemy, Burstyn v. Wilson, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, Cohen v. California, Commonwealth v. Kneeland, compelled speech, Jack Phillips, James Kent, Laurie Higgins, Lorie Smith, Miller v. California, Oney v. Oklahoma City, People v. Ruggles, State v. Chandler, State v. Mockus, U.S. Supreme Court, Updegraph v. Commonwealth | Comments Off

50 Years Ago, Solzhenitsyn Received the Nobel Prize for Reminding Us of a ‘Forgotten God’

Posted on October 23, 2020 by David E Smith

“In 1949, some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences.” So opens Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s majestic The Gulag Archipelago, a seemingly odd start for a classic on the Soviet gulag, the nation’s forced labor camps. Readers initially wonder where the author is headed with a sort of ho-hum report from not a political journal but a science journal.

Posted in Faith | Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsy, blasphemy, Comrade Bek, Comrade Longinov, Comrade Lunin, Kim Davis, Leon Trotsky, Nobel Prize in Literature, Obergefell, Patriarch Tikhon, Paul G. Kengor, Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet gulag, The Gulag Archipelago, Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin | Comments Off