American crusade: how the Supreme Court is weaponizing religious freedom

Foreword

Introduction: Jesus take the wheel

Author's note: jargon be damned

Battle plans, targets, and the call to arms. Christian legal supremacy

The court and the crusade

Drawing lines

Drawing lines: bigotry in Kentucky (Davis v. Ermold)

It was never about a cake (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission)

Opening hostilities. Hostility in Hialeah (Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah)

The Muslim ban (Trump v. Hawaii)

It was never about the drugs (Employment Division v. Smith)

Restoring Christian supremacy (The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993)

The onslaught. The war on women (Burewll v. Hobby Lobby Stores)

Religious freedom is killing us (The Covid cases)

Deus Vult revisited (American Legion v. American Humanist Association, the Bladensburg Cross Case)

Targeting children, taxing everyone (Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer)

No, really, religious freedom is taxing us (Espinoza v. the Montana Department of Revenue)

Religious freedom and segregation academies (school vouchers cases)

Religious freedom and "promoting the general welfare" (Fulton v. Philadelphia, same-sex foster parents case)

What's next?

Conclusion: the end of religious freedom?