IRFA Featured in Outcomes Magazine

IRFA Featured in Outcomes Magazine

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…

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Maintaining Freedom for Faith-Based Service

Maintaining Freedom for Faith-Based Service

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…

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Lame Duck Congress Leaves Religious Hiring Alone

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…

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Pres. Obama Issues New Executive Order on Faith-Based Rules

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…

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FBOs to Congress: Preserve Our Religious Freedom

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…

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Signs of the Times: Rising Washington Tide Against Religious Hiring

Signs of the Times: Rising Washington Tide Against Religious Hiring

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…

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IRFA’s July 22nd Capitol Hill Briefing

IRFA’s July 22nd Capitol Hill Briefing

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?”…

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Get Ready! Congressional Threats to Religious Hiring

Get Ready! Congressional Threats to Religious Hiring

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…

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Supreme Court Undermines Freedom of Association

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…

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Big Victory for Religious Hiring in World Vision Case

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…

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