by William C. Duncan | Jun 23, 2020
Religious giving: An important part of the social safety net Written by William C. Duncan Cache County has recently seen a dramatic increase of COVID-19 cases (from 156 on May 29 to 927 on June 12), many centered around a meatpacking plant in Hyrum. The CDC...
by William C. Duncan | Jun 16, 2020
Supreme Court’s LGBT rights decision: What does it mean, and what’s next? Written by William C. Duncan On Monday, June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court managed to do something Congress has tried to do for decades without success: It added the term sexual...
by William C. Duncan | Jun 10, 2020
Q&A: What churches ought to be doing in a pandemic Written by William C. Duncan No topic is more prominent in current discussions of religious freedom than the closure of worship services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ongoing and future lawsuits will...
by William C. Duncan | Jun 9, 2020
Supreme Court weighs in on pandemic limits on worship Written by William C. Duncan Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed religious freedom and it did not go well. Asked about why large protests were okay during the pandemic but other...
by William C. Duncan | May 29, 2020
Who turns down $54 million? Written by William C. Duncan Just a few days after it began, a small-business-loan program from the federal government’s response to COVID-19 ran entirely out of money. It turns out that the loans were going not just to troubled...
by William C. Duncan | May 28, 2020
Stanford law professor: Government should not decide whether religious worship is ‘essential’ Written by William C. Duncan “It is none of the state’s business to decide that religious worship is not important.” -Michael McConnell, director, Constitutional Law...
