12.31.2008 2:57 pm

Suit seeks to remove “so help me God” from oath of office

Michael Newdow, the man who sued to get the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, is the lead plaintiff in a suit filed in U.S. District Court that seeks to get the words “so help me God”…

Tags: atheism, Barack Obama, establishment clause, first amendment, freedom of religion, inauguration, religion

08.04.2008 3:08 pm

“Defaming Islam” could soon be violation of international law

By Alex Mayer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Canada’s Maclean’s magazine (involved in another controversial human rights case that I wrote about here and here) has published an extensive article detailing the “remarkably successful” campaign to make “defamation of religions” a violation of international law. (H/t: Volokh Conspiracy)

Led by the…

Tags: Christianity, defaming religion, first amendment, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, international law, Islam, Organization of the Islamic Conference, United Nations

Suit seeks to remove “so help me God” from oath of office

“Defaming Islam” could soon be violation of international law

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