RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

Dianne Post, Attorney

One random morning my housemate went out to work and found hanging on the door handle a plastic bag with a couple of books in it.  As she was in a hurry, she didn’t look at them but just put them inside on my side of the table and left.  When I found them, I also had no idea what it was as I had not ordered anything and it was too big to be campaign material. 

CRIME AND CHURCH

Dianne Post, Attorney

Every issue of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) newsletter has at least two pages of “Black Collar Crime” that is a smattering of criminal and civil activity across the country against those of a religious order. An example is one issue in November 2020 that revealed fifteen cases of pastors and church officials who were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from sexual assault of girls from 7 to 14, to the beating of a one-year-old, to shooting a wife in the head, to meth, to child pornography, and to embezzlement up to $22 million.

Can Lawyers Use Religious Exemptions to Public Accommodations Laws?

Dianne Post, Attorney

On April 12, 2019, a man in west Phoenix, Arizona shot and killed his wife and two children, and then he drove to another location and shot and killed a man there. When the police stopped him he said that he had a sincerely held religious belief that in his church, not only would this behavior be all right, it would be mandated by God because the man thought the woman was having an affair with the other man.