Catholic health insurance avoids contraceptives mandate

Catholic health insurance avoids contraceptives mandate

The HHS contraceptives mandate requires all employer health plans (unless they have retained their grandfathered status) to cover all FDA-approved contraceptive services, including IUDs and…

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The religious hiring freedom: (more than) 50 years old!

The religious hiring freedom: (more than) 50 years old!

The fiftieth anniversary of the signing by President Lyndon B. Johnson of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, our nation’s premier civil rights law, is being…

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Obama administration acknowledges religious hiring

As a candidate for president, in July, 2008, Barack Obama announced that, while he would continue the faith-based initiative started by President Bush, he would…

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Settlement in Lown v. Salvation Army

Settlement in Lown v. Salvation Army

At long last, the case of the employees who sued the New York City Salvation Army, alleging religious job discrimination, is over. On March 18,…

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Mississippi RFRA update

Mississippi RFRA update

On April 3, 2014, Governor Phil Bryant signed into law the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), just a month or so after a social-media…

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Elane Photography: no redress from SCOTUS

On April 7, 2014, the US Supreme Court decided not to take up the case of Elane Photography, the small photography business that ran afoul…

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More pressure for LGBT federal contracts Executive Order

A recent letter from 47 Senators and 148 members of the House asks the President to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating…

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Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

On March 25, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Woods challenges to the HHS contraceptives mandate. The Christian…

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Senate child-care bill: preserve parent choice

Senate child-care bill: preserve parent choice

The Senate recently passed a bill to reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant program, which provides federal funding to states to pay for…

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World Vision same-sex marriage policy change and change back

World Vision USA, the US branch of the global organization, early this week announced that it would accept into employment Christians in legal same-sex marriages…

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