How California’s LGBT Therapy Ban Could Ban Christianity Itself
It is ostensibly a ban on gay and transgender ‘conversion therapy,’ but the bill’s vague and sweeping text could affect essentially every institution of every religion that affirms sexual complementarity.
After Lawsuits, FEMA Stops Discriminating Against Religious Relief Organizations
FEMA is now accepting disaster aid applications through February 4 from houses of worship damaged by Hurricane Harvey.
Christian Baker On Supreme Court Case: I Serve All People, But I Can’t Create Art That Violates My Faith
Cake artist Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop delivered the following statement during a news conference Tuesday.
Why The Cake-Baking Cases Are Really About Courts Deciding What Americans Can Believe
Most justices first frame the issue by using judicial discretion of one kind or another to remove from consideration the nature of the product requested for a same-sex wedding.
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Faith Is Between You And God, Or You And Government
If one’s exposure to the case was limited to the popular media, you might think this case was only about the free-speech rights of wedding-cake makers. It’s much more.
Environmentalist Lobby Goes After Another Trump Nominee For Being A Christian
It looks like it’s open season for anti-Christian bigots to hunt down and destroy any Christian nominated to public office—especially environmental free thinkers.
Wyoming Judge Appeals To Nation’s Highest Court After Losing Job For Being A Christian
The question Obergefell has raised across that land is: can we craft laws that permit mutually exclusive views to peacefully coexist? Or must the disfavored view be driven out of public life?
Here’s The Speech Jeff Sessions Delivered To Christian First Amendment Lawyers
In prepared remarks before a group of Christian attorneys and religious liberty advocates, Attorney General Jeff Sessions noted that religious freedom is at the core of the American experience.
California’s Travel Ban Messes With Texas
Last week, California added four more states to its ‘travel ban,’ including Texas, claiming those states’ religious freedom laws amount to discrimination.
Why Christians Object To Participating In A Same-Sex Wedding (It Isn’t Bigotry)
Telling Christians, like Barronelle Stutzman, to affirm or participate in same-sex marriages effectively tells them to contradict what they believe to be foundational truths about the world.
Barronelle Stutzman Shows Sexual Orientation Laws Treat Religious People Like Racists
The Washington floral artist’s case reminds us that sexual-orientation laws threaten freedom and unfairly equate reasonable people with racists.
Why Refusing To Design Gay Wedding Flowers Was Barronelle Stutzman’s Act Of Love
Their mutual love of flowers brought them together, but Baronnelle Stutzman and Robert Ingersoll’s love for each other grew out of their love of growing things.
Obama Administration Says You’re A Bigot If You Live Your Religion
‘The phrases ‘religious liberty’ and ‘religious freedom’…remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia or any form of intolerance.’
How A Cakemaker Became An Enemy Of The State
When Jack Phillips declined to participate in celebrating the wedding of David Mullins and Charlie Craig, his life was upended in ways that people who argue passionately about the culture war on social media might not fully appreciate.
With Wyoming Judge’s Case, Left Aims To Ban Religious People From Legal Field
The case of Judge Ruth Neely in Wyoming shows, in stark clarity, that it doesn’t actually matter whether religious people do their jobs well and keep their religion to themselves.
Trump Veep Pence Shies From Another Religious Liberty Battle In Indiana
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and his attorney general are noticeably absent from a lawsuit challenging the state’s ‘fix’ to its Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
First Amendment Advocates Warn California Bill Would Punish Religious Colleges
Religious freedom advocates are speaking out about a California bill that would force religious schools to abandon faith-based policies.
Justice Alito Just Sounded The Alarm On Religious Liberty
‘This case is an ominous sign. ‘
How Can Gay Rights And Religious Liberty Coexist? With Free Association
‘We need more than a Religious Freedom Restoration Act—we need a Freedom Restoration Act, which was of course what the Constitution was meant to be.’
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Here’s What You Can Do To Keep Government From Crushing Religious Charities
Despite losing in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Obama administration is still reluctant to stop forcing charities to pay for abortion-inducing drugs. But we can help.