Values Voter Summit, one of the marquee annual events of the conservative movement, starts Friday at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in the District of Columbia. The top issue on the agenda, highlighted in the recent Republican presidential debates, is religious liberty. Today, religious liberty is under attack in America like never before. Each year, Liberty Institute publishes a survey titled...

5 Reasons to Keep Religion in the Military Liberty Institute Senior Counsel and Director of Military Affairs Mike Berry takes a tour of the history of religious expression in the armed forces Since the United States’ founding, American civil and military leadership have taken deliberate steps to meet the religious needs of the military and to prevent it from becoming a purely...

Working for the government is not an inalienable right. So Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, was wrong to refuse same-sex couples marriage licenses in her office. If you’re unwilling to enforce the law, you shouldn’t be an officer of the state. After all, it’s not a clerk’s job to ascertain the constitutionality or practicality of a law. If...

Can a Christian be a county clerk in the United States? This is a question it now appears may ultimately be decided by five Supreme Court justices. With it, too, will ride such questions as: Can a Christian be a doctor? A nurse? A public-school teacher? In June, when five justices declared that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th...

CITY OF HOUSTON THREATENS TO BULLDOZE HISTORIC CHURCH TO GIVE LAND TO FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS At Issue: Government Violation of a Church’s Religious Liberty Case Status: Ongoing Summary On August 4, 2015, Liberty Institute filed a lawsuit against the City of Houston for threatening to take the property of two historic Houston churches. The City of Houston is threatening to bulldoze the historic...

We’ve seen the stories—bakers, florists, members of the military, business owners, and hard-working public servants who stood up for their beliefs and are paying the price. We know their names because they roll through our newsfeed sandwiched between celebrity gossip and the latest Vine. But for an audience of nearly three thousand last weekend, those stories became real. Last Friday...

Religious liberty in America will be saved or lost by the choices of everyday people in moments when their freedom is tested. Henry Sandoz’ test began in the middle of a California desert in 2000 when a government official showed up at his door and requested Henry tear down the historic veterans memorial cross of which Henry was caretaker. This...

In the latest move to protect the historic WWI Veterans Memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland, Liberty Institute filed a reply brief on behalf of our client, The American Legion, with the United States District Court for the District of Maryland on Monday. While the American Humanist Association demands its alteration or removal, Liberty Institute remains energetically committed to defending the memorial...

Don’t fall for the myth that courts have expelled religion from public schools.  They have not!  Courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court—have granted broad religious freedom in public schools.  So has the U.S. Department of Education. To help people of faith know and exercise those rights, the legal experts at Liberty Institute created free, easy-to-understand back-to-school resources for students and teachers...

Craig James, a former professional football player and respected sportscaster, is suing Fox Sports Southwest, alleging that the broadcast network fired him because of his religious beliefs on homosexuality and marriage. After working at the network for only a few days—and hosting one broadcast—James was terminated by Fox Sports on Sep. 1, 2013. A senior vice president at the network...