Institutional Diversity Vital to Comprehensively Addressing Mental Health

Institutional Diversity Vital to Comprehensively Addressing Mental Health

Chelsea Langston, April 14, 2016 Shared Justice recently published Beyond the Hashtag: How to Advocate for Mental Health Reform, an article I wrote that is…

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IRFA Senior Director Talks to the Council for American Private Education About Religious Freedom and Independent Schools

IRFA Senior Director Talks to the Council for American Private Education About Religious Freedom and Independent Schools

IRFA Staff, April 14, 2016 [The following is reprinted with permission from the April, 2016, issue of Cape Outlook, the monthly magazine of the Council…

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President's Faith-based Regulations Are Positive For FBOs

President’s Faith-based Regulations Are Positive For FBOs

Stanley Carlson-Thies, April 4, 2016 The Obama administration has issued new regulations for federally funded government partnerships with faith-based organizations. The new rules modify somewhat…

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Kansas Protects Religious Student Clubs: Rightful Selectivity is not Wrongful Discrimination

Kansas Protects Religious Student Clubs: Rightful Selectivity is not Wrongful Discrimination

Stanley Carlson-Thies, March 31, 2016 Should it be illegal for a Democratic lawmaker to reject as unqualified any Republican and Tea Partier who applies for…

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Protecting the Faith-based Decision-making of Jewish Religious Organizations: SCOTUS Asked to Weigh in

Protecting the Faith-based Decision-making of Jewish Religious Organizations: SCOTUS Asked to Weigh in

Stanley Carlson-Thies, March 31, 2016 Statutes of limitations apply to various legal matters, ensuring timely filing of cases, timely resolution of disputes, trials before memories…

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IRFA Joins Others to File a Comment on Another NPRM that Proposes to Expand Definition of “Sex” Discrimination

IRFA Joins Others to File a Comment on Another NPRM that Proposes to Expand Definition of “Sex” Discrimination

Stanley Carlson-Thies March 31, 2016 Congress has not chosen to add sexual orientation and gender identity to federal civil rights laws and courts generally have…

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The “Nuns” and the “Nones”: Are Info-graphics the Parables of the 21st Century?

The “Nuns” and the “Nones”: Are Info-graphics the Parables of the 21st Century?

Chelsea Langston, March 31, 2016 The religiously unaffiliated –“nones”as they are called for short – now make up about 23% of the U.S adult population,…

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IRFA in CT on Apple, Encyrption and Religious Freedom

IRFA in CT on Apple, Encyrption and Religious Freedom

Chelsea Langston explores how the tech giant Apple came to share a defense with Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor. Read the article…

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Georgia’s FADA bill:  The “zero-sum” Approach Needs To Be Reframed

Georgia’s FADA bill: The “zero-sum” Approach Needs To Be Reframed

Chelsea Langston On March 3rd, Georgia’s Republican Governor Nathan Deale spoke out, on religious grounds, against a religious freedom bill passed by the state Senate….

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SJR 39: Advancing religious freedom or discrimination in Missouri?

SJR 39: Advancing religious freedom or discrimination in Missouri?

Stanley Carlson-Thies Did the US Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, which requires every state to accept same-sex marriages, put at risk the rights of religious organizations…

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