Author: Freedom Forum Institute
First Five Newsletter: November 21, 2019
Limits to free speech, Trump’s attacking tweets, artificial intelligence-powered software and more.
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First Five Newsletter: November 14, 2019
A university’s apology piece, Twitter’s new rules, John Oliver on SLAPP suits and more.
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First Five Newsletter: November 7, 2019
Teacher led prayer in schools, “cancel culture,” Religious Freedom Center graduate intensive course and more.
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Teacher-led Prayer: Unconstitutional but Appropriate?
Teachers should help students understand why religious freedom protections — like the prohibition against teacher-led prayer — benefit people of all religions and none.
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Freedom of Religion and Worshiping in Texas Prisons Brown v. Collier (2019)
Muslim inmates who were previously allowed to participate in group worship under indirect supervision must now await volunteers to facilitate directly supervised religious gatherings.
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First Five Newsletter: October 31, 2019
First Amendment poll, Facebook’s political ad policy, YouTube’s extremist content and more.
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How Not to Protect Religious Freedom: The Strange Case of the Department of Labor’s Proposed Rule on the Religious Exemption
OFCCP’s proposed rule’s harmful and unnecessary expansion of the existing religious exemption for employers endangers the religious freedom and civil rights of employees across the nation.
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First Five Newsletter: October 24, 2019
Facebook’s plan for the 2020 election, space in newspapers for political candidates deemed unconstitutional and more.
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It’s time Americans stepped up and learned about the First Amendment
Increasingly battered and misunderstood, the First Amendment needs all the support it can get as divisive politics and advancing technologies drag us in new directions.
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First Five Newsletter: October 17, 2019
Facebook’s political advertisement policies, assaulting journalists a federal crime and more.
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