Nahmod Law

On November 5, 2025, I spoke about the Religion Clauses on a webinar set up by an Illinois branch of the League of Women Voters (LWV). This was the opening segment of a LWV webinar on separation of church and state. It also included three other speakers (two of them clergymen) who addressed relevant questions about the role of religion in the American public square. The webinar went for a little over an hour.

After being introduced by the LWV moderator, I spoke for about twenty minutes with a minimum of legal jargon. I set out what the Religion Clauses were about at their inception and how they have been interpreted recently by the United States Supreme Court. To summarize: Establishment Clause constraints have been considerably narrowed by the Court (governments can now do much more to promote religion) while the Free Exercise Constraints have been considerably weakened by the Court in the name of religious liberty (governments can now do much less to limit religious exemptions from generally applicable civil and criminal laws).

After my presentation, the panelists took over and had many insightful comments to make.

Here is the YouTube link. 🎥 Watch the Webinar on YouTube

I think you will find the entire webinar informative. You most definitely do not have to be an attorney to appreciate it.