By: Jay Hobbs – nationalreview.com – August 4, 2018 Last Monday, the Department of Justice announced the creation of its new Religious Liberty Task Force, a working group within the agency formed to protect the “first freedom” recognized in the Bill of Rights. Promptly following the announcement, a cyber-mob inadvertently confirmed the importance of the new initiative. Participants practically trampled...

By: First Liberty Institute – firstliberty.org – August 1 2018 First Liberty Institute demands MG Kurt Sonntag be held accountable for his refusal to resolve a complaint against Army chaplain assistant, SSG Kacie Griffin. MG Sonntag’s deliberate inaction caused SSG Griffin to lose her place in the highly selective “Green to Gold” program in which enlisted soldiers are competitively selected...

By: Mary Papenfuss – huffingtonpost.com – July 31, 2018 Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the U.S. Justice Department is launching a “religious liberty task force” — and Twitter erupted. The new unit will aid the department in fully implementing the religious liberty legal “guidance” issued last year under President Donald Trump’s direction, Sessions said in a speech at...

By: Kelly Shackelford – firstliberty.org – August 2, 2018 Late yesterday, legendary football coach Bobby Bowden, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 12 State Attorneys General, The Texas High School Coaches Association, and 15 members of Congress filed “friend of the court” briefs urging the Supreme Court of the United States to hear the case of Coach Joe Kennedy, a high...

By: JTA – timesofisrael.com – June 1, 2018 US President Donald Trump named Gary Bauer, the Washington director of Christians United for Israel, to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. “We have seen a disturbing rise in anti-Semitism and persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Middle East,” Bauer, a veteran of top Education Department posts...

By: Mike Berry – townhall.com – July 24, 2018 “Did I break the law?” That was the heart-breaking first question Konnor McKay asked us after an out-of-state group of agitators sent a bullying letter to a school district—all because McKay had shared inspirational remarks with his former high school football team. McKay grew up in Arkansas watching Waldron High School’s...

  By: Bob Unruh – wnd.com – July 26, 2018 The transgender agenda in public schools, which insists a person’s sex is a subjective matter based on feelings, took a huge step forward this week with a federal judge ruling boys must be allowed to use girls’ rest rooms and showers, and vice versa. U.S. District Court Judge Marco Hernandez in Oregon...

By: Cynthia M. Allen – star-telegram.com – July 19, 2018 The 2016 presidential election presented people who value religious freedom with a conundrum. The moral character of both major party candidates made voting for either an unsavory task. But Trump’s campaign promise to appoint conservative judges who would defend the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty was ultimately enough to...

By: First Liberty Institue – firstliberty.org – June 28, 2018 Christmas In July! As Supreme Court term closes, First Liberty celebrates several victories that could change landscape of religious liberty Dear Friend of Liberty, This week has truly felt like Christmas in July. Today, we have yet another major religious freedom victory to announce as we head into the 4th of...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 28, 2018 Years ago, when I was a young lawyer, I had an interesting conversation with a much older judge. He was a Democrat, an old-school liberal, and he said something revealing: “There’s the law, and then there’s what’s right. My job is to do what’s right.” Or, to put the philosophy in...