HHS Secretary

HHS contraceptives mandate cases–briefly

As of today . . . 91 cases over 300 plaintiffs 2 cases at the US Supreme Court The federal government takes three positions on…

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Obama administration and Religious Freedom Day 2014

Obama administration and Religious Freedom Day 2014

On January 15, the anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which was written by Thomas Jefferson and which is one…

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Putting kids first in regulating foster care and adoption agencies

Putting kids first in regulating foster care and adoption agencies

This week the Heritage Foundation released an important background paper, “Adoption, Foster Care, and Conscience Protection,” by Sarah Torre and Ryan Anderson. In the US…

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world vision faith

Global religious restrictions rising

Here’s how the new edition of the important global religious freedom study from the Pew Research Center was announced: “The share of countries with a…

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Faith-based preK and government funding

Faith-based preK and government funding

The huge–it’s called “omnibus”–appropriations bill that passed the House and Senate this week includes an increase in federal spending for preK education, although apparently not…

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Equal protection is only individualistic?

Equal protection is only individualistic?

Earlier this week, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that the state’s definition of marriage as one man and one woman is a violation of…

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Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies Comments on Religious Exemptions in SSM Laws

Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies Comments on Religious Exemptions in SSM Laws

In a Christianity Today Online post, Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies commented on the importance of religious exemptions in same-sex marriage laws. You can find the article…

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Faith-based services and the War on Poverty

Faith-based services and the War on Poverty

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies wrote an editorial for the National Review Online. In this article, he…

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HHS Secretary

HHS mandate court action–on steroids!

It is harder and harder to keep up! Lawsuits keep being filed, or refiled, by religious nonprofit organizations and by companies of conviction. And court…

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White House

How charitable is charitable giving?

Before Christmas, Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton and now a distinguished professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley,…

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