Financial Stress Ahead for Nonprofits?

Financial Stress Ahead for Nonprofits?

Maybe before the glittery ball falls in Times Square, signaling the arrival of the New Year, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President…

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Does New York's SSM Law Protect Faith-Based Agencies?

Does New York’s SSM Law Protect Faith-Based Agencies?

New York’s Marriage Equality Act was adopted by the legislature in June, 2011, only after being amended to include stronger religious freedom protections. But how…

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Contraceptives Mandate Creates Two Classes of Religious Organizations

Contraceptives Mandate Creates Two Classes of Religious Organizations

From Stanley Carlson-Thies, “Which Religious Organizations Count as Religious? The Religious Employer Exemption of the Health Insurance Law’s Contraceptives Mandate,” now available as part of…

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HHS Contraceptives Mandate Litigation

HHS Contraceptives Mandate Litigation

It is difficult to keep up with the court cases challenging the HHS contraceptives mandate–the requirement that employee health plans (except for grandfathered ones and…

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Religious Freedom and Social Architecture

Religious Freedom and Social Architecture

Often religious freedom, including the freedom of faith-based service organizations, is treated as a matter of a limitation on what government may do: it should…

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Faith-Based Organizations and the Growth of the "Nones"

Faith-Based Organizations and the Growth of the “Nones”

An October Pew Forum report, “‘Nones’ on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation,” explores the views of the growing number of Americans who…

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Notable Quotes

Notable Quotes

* Why Government Should Look Elsewhere Than Churches For More Revenue Leroy Huizenga, “Euro Cities to Try Taxing Churches,” First Thoughts (First Thingsmagazine), Sept. 16….

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Administration Accommodation of Conscience

Administration Accommodation of Conscience

The Obama administration’s positive action was not much noted at the time, so, although very belatedly, here is the story. The PEPFAR program, started by…

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The NLRB and Religious Higher Education

The NLRB and Religious Higher Education

On September 12, two subcommittees of the House Education and the Workforce Committee held a joint hearing, “Expanding the Power of Big Labor: The NLRB’s…

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Another Burden Imposed by the HHS Contraceptives Mandate

Another Burden Imposed by the HHS Contraceptives Mandate

Many faith-based organizations (and also businesses with religious owners) consider themselves in a real bind: they want to offer their employees health insurance but have…

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