Part One: the supreme court on the Church and State
A conversation with Rob Boston Americans United for the Separation of Church and State Senior Adviser and Editor of Church & State magazineRob, who has worked at Americans United since 1987, is the author of four books: Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics (Prometheus Books, 2000); The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition (Prometheus Books, 1996); Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State (Prometheus Books, 1993; second edition, 2003) and, most recently, Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn’t Give You The Right To Tell Other People What To Do (Prometheus Books, 2014).
topics:
A 5-4 decision in June ruled that private religious schools cannot be excluded from tax-funded voucher programs.This is a subsidy to private religious schools.
A 7-2 ruling on Wednesday determined that federal employment discrimination laws do not apply to private school teachers tasked with religious instruction.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/supreme-court-shields-religious-schools-from-discrimination-suits-brought-by-teachers.html
A 7-2 ruling also on Wednesday upheld the right of employers with a religious or moral objection to deny contraceptive coverage as part of their workers’ health care plans.
Part two;
Break Up Budweiser And Molson Coors too. The beer industry needs trustbusting.
https://slate.com/business/2020/07/break-up-big-beer.html
We have a conversation with Ron Knox, who is the senior researcher and writer for the Independent Business Initiative. He has studied and written about antitrust and monopoly power for more than a decade. Before joining ILSR, he worked in various senior editorial roles at Global Competition Review, and his antimonopoly writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, The American Prospect and elsewhere. He is based in Kansas City.
Despite laws to prevent it, there have been so many mergers and acquisitions that the beer business in the United States is now controlled by two large companies. They are not only buying up smaller, independent brewers, but consolidated their hold by also controlling or outright owning distribution channels, and retailing businesses through franchise operations. This squeezes out small, startup businesses, and gives them a lot of power.
