The Winter, 2010, issue of Outcomes, the quarterly magazine of the Christian Leadership Alliance, features an interview with IRFA President Stanley Carlson-Thies. The Christian Leadership…
IRFA President Carlson-Thies’ essay on protecting the ability of faith-based services to maintain their religious character, especially through religious hiring, is featured in Policy in…
Opponents of religious hiring by faith-based organizations that receive government funds failed to get the lame-duck Congress to ban “religious job discrimination. Making this drastic…
On Nov. 17 President Obama signed an Executive Order on “Fundamental Principles and Policymaking Criteria for Partnerships with Faith-Based and Other Neighborhood Organizations.” This Executive…
A letter was delivered to every congressional office on August 25th with a plea from a multifaith group of faith-based leaders: don’t change the rules…
It doesn’t seem to matter to certain powerful members of Congress and powerful DC action groups that religious hiring by faith-based organizations is a legally…
On July 22nd, IRFA organized a briefing for congressional staffers and outside groups with the title, “Is the Religious Freedom Landscape Shifting for Faith-Based Organizations?”…
A recently proposed bill would undermine the freedom of religious organizations to consider religion when hiring staff and would also undermine the Religious Freedom Restoration…
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday, June 28, that the Hastings College of Law (University of California), a public institution, can refuse recognition to…
The 9th circuit federal appeals court on August 23 vindicated World Vision’s religious hiring policies (Spencer v. World Vision). Although World Vision is engaged in…