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

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

A Statement from the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance Every day, throughout the United States and overseas, people inspired by religious faith serve people in need-the…

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Can--and Should--Religious Organizations Speak Up During Elections?

Can–and Should–Religious Organizations Speak Up During Elections?

Last Sunday, October 7th, was Pulpit Freedom Sunday, a day organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom for pastors to “preach[] biblical Truth about candidates and…

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Financial Stress Ahead for Nonprofits?

Financial Stress Ahead for Nonprofits?

Maybe before the glittery ball falls in Times Square, signaling the arrival of the New Year, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President…

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Does New York's SSM Law Protect Faith-Based Agencies?

Does New York’s SSM Law Protect Faith-Based Agencies?

New York’s Marriage Equality Act was adopted by the legislature in June, 2011, only after being amended to include stronger religious freedom protections. But how…

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Contraceptives Mandate Creates Two Classes of Religious Organizations

Contraceptives Mandate Creates Two Classes of Religious Organizations

From Stanley Carlson-Thies, “Which Religious Organizations Count as Religious? The Religious Employer Exemption of the Health Insurance Law’s Contraceptives Mandate,” now available as part of…

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HHS Contraceptives Mandate Litigation

HHS Contraceptives Mandate Litigation

It is difficult to keep up with the court cases challenging the HHS contraceptives mandate–the requirement that employee health plans (except for grandfathered ones and…

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Religious Freedom and Social Architecture

Religious Freedom and Social Architecture

Often religious freedom, including the freedom of faith-based service organizations, is treated as a matter of a limitation on what government may do: it should…

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Faith-Based Organizations and the Growth of the "Nones"

Faith-Based Organizations and the Growth of the “Nones”

An October Pew Forum report, “‘Nones’ on the Rise: One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation,” explores the views of the growing number of Americans who…

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Notable Quotes

Notable Quotes

* Why Government Should Look Elsewhere Than Churches For More Revenue Leroy Huizenga, “Euro Cities to Try Taxing Churches,” First Thoughts (First Thingsmagazine), Sept. 16….

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Administration Accommodation of Conscience

Administration Accommodation of Conscience

The Obama administration’s positive action was not much noted at the time, so, although very belatedly, here is the story. The PEPFAR program, started by…

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