Religion & Law

Russian Prosecutors Say "South Park" Incites Religious Hatred
In 2006, Russia passed a law expanding the definition of extremism to include "inciting religious and national hatred." According to Reuters today, prosecutors in Moscow's region of Basmanny have filed a motion in court against the television station 2x2 seeking to ban the U...

Russia Takes Aim At 'South Park,' Following Religious Group's Complaints
Comedy Central’s “South Park” has irked an array of individuals and groups since its debut in the late 1990s. The animated series about the adventures of a group of youngsters in a quiet mountain town in Colorado, though critically acclaimed, has drawn sharp rebukes from this country’s social conservatives on numerous occasions...

Killing Kenny in Russia: Prosecutors Move to Ban South Park
Devoted fans of “South Park,” the satirical and scatological cartoon that began airing on Comedy Central in 1997, will remember an episode called Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics...

"Russian Prosecutors in Bid to Ban South Park,"
reports the Times (London):...

Russians Move Against South Park; Kenny in Hiding
Russia seems intent on making itself and its leaders into cartoon caricatures of late. Thus, it should be no surprise that the Russians are actually fighting cartoon characters in court...

Moscow Prosecutors Find South Park Offensive
The Times of London is reporting that Moscow prosecutors want to kill South Park because the show ?bore signs of extremist activity.? The one-time officially atheist government found South Park's "Mr Hankey?s Christmas Classics" episode featuring Satan, Adolf Hitler and...

Religious Decorations
Oklahoma City to pay attorney fees in religious freedom violations lawsuit.

South Carolina Firm
Recalls Frozen Meat and Poultry Products

Great Escape Lodge and Indoor Water Park
Faces Class Action

Discrimination
race, gender, disability, religious or age discrimiation.

Clergy Molester
Religious group to pay $1.3 million in priest molestation settlement.

Religious Discrimination
NMSU to pay $165,000 in Muslim discrimination settlement.