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Students play Frisbee, non-satirically, at Penn State. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Questions are being raised about the moral turpitude flourishing inside the walls of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at Penn State University, which was discovered to have a members-only Facebook page featuring non-consensual nude photos of women. Now Philadelphia has published an interview with one…
In a new joint interview with Nick Offerman in the April issue of Esquire, Chelsea Handler claims she narrowly escaped becoming another of Bill Cosby’s alleged rape victims, saying the embattled comedian invited her — alone — to meet him in his Atlantic City hotel room nearly a decade ago. At one point during Offerman…
What’s going on in Indiana with a religious freedom act and LGBTQ people possibly being denied service as a result? Read This First: Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana just signed a bill into law over significant in and out of state protests. It is one of a number of bills passed into law across both…
Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 Long title An Act to protect the free exercise of religion. Acronyms(colloquial) RFRA Enacted by the 103rd United States Congress Effective November 16, 1993 Citations Public Law 103-141 Statutes at Large 107 Stat. 1488 Codification Titles amended 42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare U.S.C. sections created 42 U.S.C. ch. 21B § 2000bb…
“We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement Thursday afternoon. He said the NCAA will “work diligently” to ensure competitors and visitors at next week’s Final Four are not “negatively impacted by this bill.” Emmert also said the organization, which is…
Buy Photo Mike Pence, Indiana Governor, speaks to press members following his signing of the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Thursday, March 26, 2015. (Photo: Robert Scheer / The Star)Buy Photo Gov. Mike Pence signed a controversial “religious freedom” bill on Thursday morning during a private ceremony in his Statehouse office. Pence almost immediately began…
California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks March 8 at the California Democratic State Convention in Los Angeles.(Photo: Jae C. Hong, AP) LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Kamala Harris asked a state court Wednesday for an order allowing her to avoid processing a citizen-proposed anti-gay ballot measure that calls for executing gays with “bullets to…
Buy Photo Reporters interview Gov. Mike Pence.(Photo: Charlie Nye / The Star)Buy Photo Soon after Gov. Mike Pence signed the religious freedom bill into law Thursday, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff announced on Twitter that he would no longer send employees or customers to Indiana. “Today we are canceling all programs that require our…
KABUL — In life, Farkhunda would have been an unlikely role model for empowering Afghanistan’s women. Every day, she wore the head-to-toe black garment favored by conservative Muslim women. She studied at an Islamic religious school. She believed, her father said, that women should be educated in order to raise their children in a good…
Where’d you go, conservative defenders of free speech and academic inquiry? Just a few days ago, you were championing a college student who said he’d been removed from class for expressing skepticism over some very dubious sexual assault statistics. But now that the story has taken a turn, you’ve grown so quiet. Last week, Reed…