Meet the Panel For the Press Conference
Meet the Panel For the Press Conference
The 50-minute press conference, will be followed by Q&A, and is moderated by journalist Jack Gorsline.
"Having covered the expansion of the new age psychedelic religious movement across the United States and aboard for some time now, the intrigue surrounding Singularism’s origin story and ongoing legal battles is rapidly evolving into one of the most consequential religious freedom cases in the history of the American legal system. I look forward to continuing to document the latest developments in this case as they develop in real time."
"Singularism’s practice represents a sincere religious exercise by guiding people to a direct experience of God, and Singularism’s case now gives us the opportunity to reverse Employment Division v. Smith and return religious freedom to its proper place under the First Amendment.”
"Where the government creates a secular exception to a law, it cannot refuse to provide a similar exception for religious practice ."
"The Free Exercise Clause does not permit the government to define away religious practice by recharacterizing inherently spiritual experiences as exclusively medical events."
"A sincere religious practice deserves the same protection under the law whether its sacrament is bread and wine or a mushroom, and Singularism has shown exactly that kind of sincerity."
"I’m not asking anyone to believe what I believe. I’m fighting so that every person keeps the right to believe what they believe, and to practice it without fear."
“The sincere use of psychedelics for spiritual experiences is an act of religious adherence protected by the First Amendment and Utah’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Attempts to criminally prosecute religious practices the State deems discordant is a violation of these fundamental constitutional and state protections and we will defend aggressively in court.”
"Whatever legal regime a society chooses, however, it must apply its protections equally to unpopular or unfamiliar religious groups as to popular or familiar ones if that commitment to religious liberty is to mean anything.”
"Perhaps it is ironic then that not long after enacting its RFRA to provide special protections for religious exercise, the State of Utah should so vigorously deploy its resources, particularly the coercive power of its criminal-justice system, to harass and shut down a new religion it finds offensive practically without any evidence that that religion’s practices have imposed any harms on its own practitioners or anyone else.” - pg 37
"Perhaps it is ironic then that not long after enacting its RFRA to provide special protections for religious exercise, the State of Utah should so vigorously deploy its resources, particularly the coercive power of its criminal-justice system, to harass and shut down a new religion it finds offensive practically without any evidence that that religion’s practices have imposed any harms on its own practitioners or anyone else.” - pg 37
-Jensen v. Utah County, Order Granting Preliminary Injunction, Case No. 2:24-cv-00887-JNP-CMR, First Amended Verified Complaint, Filed Jan. 22, 2025
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Singualrism's Press Releases Have Been was Syndicated in nearly 200 publications, including:
This Press Release was syndicated in nearly 200 publications, including:
This Press Release was syndicated in nearly 200 publications, including:
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