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October 2018

October 18, 2018

The UK Supreme Court Rules for Its Christian Bakers

Great Britain has its own Christian bakers who refused to bake a cake in support...

August 2018

August 01, 2018

Is Religious Liberty for Religions or Individuals?

One of the participants in the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom was Callista Gingrich (wife...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

The Potomac Declaration on Religious Freedom

The Trump administration on July 24-26 convened a major diplomatic symposium on religious freedom. Eighty...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

Supreme Court: Pro-Life Clinics Can’t Be Forced to Promote Abortion

In another important religious liberty and free-speech case, the Supreme Court overturned a California law...

June 13, 2018

Forbidding Anti-Religious Bias and Double Standards

Some observers believe the Supreme Court's ruling in the Masterpiece Cake case will do little...

June 05, 2018

Religious Objections to Gay Marriage “Are Protected Views”

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, the Christian baker in Colorado who...

May 2018

May 25, 2018

Will the New Critics of Liberal Democracy Turn Against Religious Liberty?

A number of conservative thinkers, in trying to address the political and cultural problems of...

May 23, 2018

A Bill to Amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Leading Democrats in the Senate have introduced a bill that would amend the Religious Freedom...

April 2018

April 23, 2018

California to Ban Books? Or Just Christian Speech?

The California State Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw "the sale or lease...

March 2018

March 08, 2018

The Biggest Religious Liberty Issue: Eagle Feathers

Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that the government could...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

Court Rules in Favor of Another Judge Who Won’t Do Gay Weddings

We have been following the case of Judge Ruth Neely, a Wyoming magistrate who lost...

February 15, 2018

Cultural Pressure vs. Religious Liberty

The main threat to religious liberty today is not the government. Rather, it is the...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

Has Trump Come Through for Pro-Lifers & Evangelicals?

President Trump won the support of most evangelicals and other pro-lifers, some of whom had...

December 2017

December 07, 2017

The Case of the Gay Wedding Cake

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, v....

October 2017

October 19, 2017

Pro-Abortionists Targeting Religious Institutions

Jerry Brown, the Democratic Governor of California, is an arch-liberal. But he doesn't let his...

October 09, 2017

The Government Will Now Follow 20 Principles of Religious Liberty

In practice, this document means that the Christian baker could refuse to participate in a...

September 2017

September 12, 2017

Hostility to religion grows in U.S.A.

The United States found itself in unfamiliar company when it made the "Hall of Shame" in a...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

“We’re going to punish the wicked”

Tim Gill, who made his fortune from Quark publishing software, may be the biggest funder...

July 12, 2017

Trinity Lutheran goes back to normal after Supreme Court victory

Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, just won a landmark case before the Supreme Court. ...

July 03, 2017

How to criminalize Christianity

The United States has freedom of religion, and to say Christians are "persecuted" here is...

June 2017

June 14, 2017

Court upholds right of church to fire gay employee

The music director of Holy Family Catholic Church in Chicago announced his engagement to another...

June 09, 2017

Is saying Jesus is the only way to salvation hate speech and discrimination?

Russell Vought is a Wheaton College alumnus who weighed in on the controversy over the...

June 02, 2017

The ACLU is targeting Catholic hospitals

One in six patients in America today is treated in a Catholic hospital. The numbers...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

Religious liberty in the military

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod may yet again be headed to the Supreme Court,...

May 05, 2017

Trump signs religious liberty order

President Trump issued an executive order on religious liberty. It allows churches and other religious...

April 2017

April 06, 2017

Court rules that Civil Rights laws cover LGBT bias

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights law bans discrimination on the basis of race,...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Other rights are not equal to religious liberty

The hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court got started. Judge Gorsuch...

March 15, 2017

Forcing pro-life centers to advertise abortions

Hawaii is on the verge of passing a law requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to post...

March 14, 2017

Saying Christ is the only way to God is “abusive and criminal”?

Two British street preachers were arrested for publicly reading the Bible, particularly the parts about...

March 13, 2017

LCMS judge is censured for following her church

We blogged about (here, here, and here) the case of Judge Ruth Neely, a municipal...