The Briefing 05-21-15

Podcast Transcript

1) Appeals Court second denial of Notre Dame case exposes perilous state of religious liberty 

Appeals Court Denies Notre Dame’s Challenge to Health Law’s Contraception Mandate, Wall Street Journal (Louise Radnofsky and Brent Kendall)

Notre Dame birth-control protest denied again, SCOTUSblog (Lyle Denniston)

2) Retraction of gay marriage opinion study reveals need for firm foundation for truth

Co-author disavows highly publicized study on public opinion and same-sex marriage, Washington Post (Fred Barbash)

Study on softening same-sex marriage attitudes retracted over ‘fake data’, The Guardian, (Lauren Gambino)

3) Influence of childhood hometown on likelihood of marriage evidences import of social norms 

How Your Hometown Affects Your Chances of Marriage, New York Times (David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy)

4) Death of Happy Rockefeller reminder of how far society has shifted

Happy Rockefeller, 88, Dies; Marriage to Governor Scandalized Voters, New York Times (Robert D. McFadden)