**STATEMENT** The Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance Endorses the Fairness for All Bill December 6, 2019 (WASHINGTON, DC) – The Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance supports the…
By Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies The Vital Role in Society of Faith-Based Organizations Here are three . . . quick indicators of the importance of religious…
By Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies Nearly 110,000 comments on a seemingly obscure proposed change to the federal contracting regulations were recently received by the U.S. Department…
By Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies Editor’s Note: In the wake of an agreement between President Trump and bipartisan congressional leaders on a two-year budget framework, the…
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) has allowed courts to neutrally balance compelling government interests with religious beliefs ever since it was enacted in 1993 by a bipartisan Congress. Now, Democratic members of the House and Senate have reintroduced the Do No Harm Act, a bill that would disallow religious objections to key government actions, including LGBT inclusion and reproductive health. On June 25, 2019, the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on the Do No Harm Act. Representative Joseph Kennedy, who introduced the Do No Harm Act in 2017 and has now reintroduced it, expressed his concern that RFRA “has morphed from a shield of protection to a sword of infringement.” Yet RFRA does not guarantee a victory for religious actors, only a fair weighing of their claims. To adequately protect religious freedom, RFRA should not be modified.
Stanley Carlson-Thies is the Founder and Senior Director of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance (IRFA), a division of the Center for Public Justice. Individual religious…
By Chelsea Langston Bombino On the last Saturday of October, a man armed with an AR-15 style rifle and three handguns entered the Tree of…
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Updated: August 15, 2018 Published: July 31, 2018 Stanley Carlson-Thies Update on August 15: In the wake of the adverse Canadian Supreme Court decisions, the…
New American Charter Calls for a Public Policy of Pluralism
By Stanley Carlson-Thies The American Charter of Freedom of Religion and Conscience was released to the public on November 20, 2018 at a ceremony at…