\u201cMassachusetts: Churches may be covered by transgender discrimination bans, as to \u2018secular events\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
My thanks to\u00a0Cassandra Hedelius (herself an attorney) for calling my attention to this Washington Post article by Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA\u2019s school of law.<\/p>\n
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(He\u2019s Jewish, by the way. \u00a0I mention that in an effort to forestall dismissals of him as merely a conservative Christian with a persecution complex.)<\/p>\n
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Please note that the issue I\u2019m raising here isn\u2019t what pronouns should be used for transgendered people. \u00a0The issue is religious liberty, freedom of speech, and the long and intrusive arm of the State.<\/p>\n
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