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The NLRB, unions, and religious higher education

In early February, the National Labor Relations Board requested comments on whether and how unions can seek to organize adjunct and other faculty at religious…

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Time for full school choice

The American Center for School Choice and the Commission on Faith-based Schools this week published a thoughtful and thought-provoking report, Religious Schools in America: A…

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Protecting Religious Freedom

The ACLU’s crabbed view of religious freedom

In its fundraising appeal for 2014, “Moving Freedom Forward: What You and the ACLU Can Do in 2014,” the ACLU, while professing its devotion to…

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More states to ban "gay conversion" therapy?

More states to ban “gay conversion” therapy?

The idea popped up first in California, where it was turned into a law, and then in New Jersey, where it also became law. Now…

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Protecting Religious Freedom

Worth reading

* John Carr, “Beyond Red and Blue,” America, Feb. 10, 2014: In the renewed interest in fighting poverty, “There are unreal, unhelpful divisions between those…

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Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court in November agreed to hear the cases of two Christian businesses that object to being required by the HHS contraceptives mandate…

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Will an LGBT executive order on federal contracts protect religious employers?

For many months, various groups have been pressing the President to issue an executive order banning LGBT job discrimination by federal contractors, and there is…

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HHS Secretary

Don’t use 414(e) definition to protect ministries from contraceptives mandate

In its strong January 12th editorial saying the federal government should protect, rather than, suppress the religious freedom of the Little Sisters of the Poor…

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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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