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