New Michigan Adoption Laws Promote Adoptions by Protecting Faith-based Agencies

New Michigan Adoption Laws Promote Adoptions by Protecting Faith-based Agencies

Chelsea Langston On June 11, 2015, Michigan’s Governor Rick Snyder signed into law three bills that advance the state’s objective of placing as many children…

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Free to Serve:  Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations

Free to Serve: Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations

Coming in October, 2015, from Brazos Press: Steven Monsma and Stanley Carlson-Thies, Free to Serve: Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations. From the publisher’s…

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Can Federal Contractors Continue to Staff on a Religious Basis?  Two briefings.

Can Federal Contractors Continue to Staff on a Religious Basis? Two briefings.

Stanley Carlson-Thies On June 17-18, 2015, Carl Esbeck of the University of Missouri Law School presented two Washington DC briefings on the right of religious…

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Will Supreme Court create marriage equality for FBOs?

Will Supreme Court create marriage equality for FBOs?

by Stanley Carlson-Thies “Marriage equality” is the term people use for when a legislature or court declares that same-sex couples may join opposite-sex couples in…

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LGBT hiring required in federal grants?

LGBT hiring required in federal grants?

by Stanley Carlson-Thies Has the Obama administration decided to require federal grantees, like federal contractors, to hire without regard to sexual orientation and gender identity?…

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Letter: Preserve tax-exempt status for religious schools

Letter: Preserve tax-exempt status for religious schools

by Stanley Carlson-Thies At the April 28, 2015, US Supreme Court oral arguments about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, when…

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Nevada's brand-new (near) universal school-choice program

Nevada’s brand-new (near) universal school-choice program

by Stanley Carlson-Thies On June 2, 2015, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law a comprehensive voucher-like Educational Savings Account (ESA) system for public school…

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FBOs:  fighting poverty or the culture wars?

FBOs: fighting poverty or the culture wars?

(by Stanley Carlson-Thies) A mid-May, 2015, Catholic-evangelical summit brought together President Obama, academic experts, and faith leaders to consider how to more effectively address persistent…

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Recognition of SSM in federal marriage and fatherhood programs

Recognition of SSM in federal marriage and fatherhood programs

(by Stanley Carlson-Thies) In May, 2015, renewed federal funding for marriage-strengthening and for fatherhood-promoting programs was announced. The rules try to accommodate both traditional and…

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Care is vital in RFRA wordsmithing and advocacy

Care is vital in RFRA wordsmithing and advocacy

(by Chelsea Langston) In May, 2015, additional states are considering legislation to protect the exercise of individual and organizational religious freedom—state RFRAs and similar bills….

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