by Chelsea Maxell, Dordt College student, former IRFA intern, IRFA Student Fellow On June 26, 2015, social media seemed to light up with more activity…
Stanley Carlson-Thies Is it an unconstitutional establishment of religion if the state of Kentucky allows Ark Encounter, a biblical theme-park-in-the-making, to participate in the state’s…
Chelsea Langston In the midst of national debates about where to draw the lines in the separation of church and state, one thing remains clear:…
Chelsea Langston The US Supreme Court has agreed to review the case of a Missouri-based religious preschool (owned and operated by a church) that was…
Stanley Carlson-Thies On January 26, 2016, the federal Department of Labor issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)—draft regulations, with an explanation—to change the nondiscrimination…
Chelsea Langston President Obama delivered his final State of the Union on January 12, 2016. Several times he pointed to potential areas of cooperation between…
Stanley Carlson-Thies When Congress in 2014 reauthorized the federal program that subsidizes child care for low-income families (the Child Care and Development Block Grant), it…
Stanley Carlson-Thies In August 2016, it will be fully five years since the federal government announced that employer health plans must cover all contraceptives, including…
Why Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers is also a Women’s Rights Issue
Chelsea Langston On the last day of 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to enjoin a recently passed California state statute called the…
Stanley Carlson-Thies On January 19, 2016, IRFA and other religious organizations filed a comment on proposed regulations from the US Department of Housing and Urban…