Within just a few days of its Hobby Lobby ruling, the US Supreme Court gave temporary protection against the contraceptives mandate to Wheaton College, an…
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) was at the center of the recent Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision. And at the center of the current…
Seeking a consensus to overhaul federal job training programs, Congress will leave intact a religious hiring ban as it reauthorizes the program–even though faith-based organizations…
Point: Peter Conn, “The Great Accreditation Farce,” Chronicle of Higher Education Commentary, June 30, 2014.“By awarding accreditation to religious colleges, the process confers legitimacy on…
Some 160 leaders of faith-based organizations and churches sent a letter Wednesday (June 25) asking the President to include strong religious freedom protections in the…
Last week, 90 “religious, education, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health organizations” asked Attorney General Eric Holder to “review and withdraw” a 2007 legal…
A significant number of Catholic (as well as Protestant) businesses and religious nonprofit organizations have sued the federal government to get relief from the mandate…
On June 10th, the Constitution subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the state of religious freedom in American today. The witnesses…
* Michael Paulson, “Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy,” New York Times, June 9, 2014. “In a collision between religious freedom and antidiscrimination policies,…
Supreme Court: business isn’t a religion-free zone
“The US Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision upholds a vital principle, according to IRFA President Stanley Carlson-Thies: “[T]he decision importantly vindicates business as a realm…