Commentaries by Mark R. Killenbeck

Alabama's Religious Freedom: Natural Rights, Social Duties

June 22, 2017 10:17:20 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Mark R. Killenbeck of the University of Arkansas School of Law discusses Alabama's HB 24 which allows adoption agencies to refuse to place foster children with same-sex couples according to religious beliefs ... In March 1967, a...

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On August 17, 2005, Israel began removing settlers from certain occupied territories in the West Bank. The move began Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan. Learn more about the Israeli disengagement plan from the Washington Post.