Religious Liberty
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September 1st, 2017
  by: David French – nationalreview.com – August 30, 2017 A mayor’s backlash against a basic statement of Evangelical Christian belief signals an ominous turn in the culture wars. Don’t ever forget that, for some folks, “separation of church and state” is a half-measure. It’s just a pit stop on the road to de-Christianizing America. It’s a temporary means to...
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June 9th, 2017
Sanders and Vanhollen
by Joe Carter – hegospelcoalition.org – June 8, 2017 The Story: In a confirmation hearing of an executive branch nominee, two U.S. senators imply that those who believe Jesus is the only way to salvation are “Islamophobic” and not fit for public office. The Background: Last year, a controversy erupted when a political science professor at Wheaton College decided to wear a...
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June 2nd, 2017
Steve and Bridget Tennes
By: Fred Lucas – @FredLucasWH – May 31, 2017 A farmers market and Facebook posts have opened a new front in courtroom battles over religious freedom. It started when Steve Tennes, who owns a 120-acre farm in Charlotte, Michigan, expressed his traditional view about marriage on the farm’s Facebook page. This drew a warning from an official more than 20...
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May 4th, 2017
Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO and Chief Counsel of First Liberty Institute, today praised President Trump’s new Executive Order promoting free speech and religious liberty. In a statement, Shackelford said: “President Trump’s executive order on religious liberty should be both unnecessary and unremarkable. Yet activists have pledged to challenge President Trump in court for supporting the First Amendment. Our country was...
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May 4th, 2017
President Trump signed an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” on Thursday. The final version of the order addresses two issues. First, it instructs the Internal Revenue Service to “not take any adverse action against any individual, house of worship, or other religious organization” that endorse or oppose candidates from the pulpit, which is currently outlawed by a...
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May 4th, 2017
President Trump signed an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” on Thursday. The final version of the order addresses two issues. First, it instructs the Internal Revenue Service to “not take any adverse action against any individual, house of worship, or other religious organization” that endorse or oppose candidates from the pulpit, which is currently outlawed by a...
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January 13th, 2017
For the first time ever, the United States was included in the International Christian Concern’s annual “Hall of Shame Report.” In the 2016 edition, released last week, the U.S. appeared in the “New and Noteworthy” category. “The persecution in these countries is not anywhere near the same level of persecution as those in the rest of the list,” the report explains, “but...
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January 6th, 2017
Source: These 6 Battlefields in 2017 Could Determine Religious Freedom’s Future | First Liberty Powerful institutions are manipulating the law to secularize America and make people of faith into second-class citizens. But in 2017, attorneys defending religious freedom have an opportunity to change that secular future. Perhaps the most promising opportunity lies in six areas of legal conflict—six “battlefields”—within the...
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December 15th, 2016
Honesty is a wonderful thing. Last week, during an interview with Terry Gross, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet made a welcome confession: I want to make sure that we are much more creative about beats out in the country so that we understand that anger and disconnectedness that people feel. And I think I use religion as an...
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December 9th, 2016
Could moving a giant cross or cutting off its arms resolve a 1st Amendment case? RICHMOND — The fate of a 40-foot-tall cross that dominates a busy Maryland intersection provoked impassioned debate in a federal courtroom Wednesday, at one point including a question about whether cutting off the arms of the cross might resolve the legal issues. Two appeals court...
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