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HHS mandate court action–on steroids!

It is harder and harder to keep up! Lawsuits keep being filed, or refiled, by religious nonprofit organizations and by companies of conviction. And court…

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How charitable is charitable giving?

Before Christmas, Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton and now a distinguished professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley,…

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Promoting religious freedom = promoting religious privilege?

The proliferating religious freedom fights these days are really just efforts by people and organizations of faith to impose their values on others. That was…

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Should it be illegal for Catholic hospitals to be Catholic?

Should it be illegal for Catholic hospitals to be Catholic?

It’s a tragic case, where a pregnant Michigan woman apparently did not get the best medical care from a Catholic hospital in her crisis. But…

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The Pope on the cover(s)

The Pope on the cover(s)

Given the proliferating religious heterogeneity of our nation and the growing anti-religion sentiment, it is surely newsworthy when Pope Francis is named “person of the…

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Will Canada get a Christian Law School?

Will Canada get a Christian Law School?

When Trinity Western University, an evangelical Christian institution in British Columbia, announced that it intended to start a Christian law school, there was an outcry…

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More legal action against HHS contraceptives mandate

It has been two and a half years since the federal government, on August 1, 2011, announced that the preventative health services for women that…

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Charitable tax deduction still under threat

Even though we have just enjoyed Thanksgiving, Christmas is just around the corner, and the idea that Congress might actually reform taxes or make other…

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Is the clergy housing allowance unconstitutional?

Is the clergy housing allowance unconstitutional?

IRFA’s sphere of service is faith-based service organizations, not churches and clergy, but only because of a division of labor. Faith-based services (schools, adoption agencies,…

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Makes you think: IRS proposes to restrict (c)(4) politics

Recently the IRS proposed new rules that are supposed to clarify which kind of political activity is legal for 501(c)(4) organizations. Note that detail: this…

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