(by Chelsea Langston) It is odd: remember the media and social-media backlash as Indiana was adopting its Religious Freedom Restoration Act (March-April 2015)–and yet 19…
(by Stanley Carlson-Thies) The story last July, 2014, was shocking: evangelical Gordon College north of Boston might lose its accreditation because of its policy requiring…
(by Stanley Carlson-Thies) The Senate on April 22, 2015, voted down an amendment to a sex trafficking bill that would have both reauthorized the Runaway…
As of April 8, 2015, new and modified federal contracts, subcontracts, and vendor agreements are subject to a new ban on sexual-orientation and gender-identity job…
by Stanley Carlson-Thies and Chelsea Langston On April 2, 2015, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed what many are calling a fix to the Religious Freedom…
On March 9, 2015, the US Supreme Court told the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (Chicago) to review its ruling denying the University of Notre…
A Senate bill with a very problematic nondiscrimination clause (S. 262, Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act, chief sponsor Sen. Leahy) is stalled…
The federal government has yet to answer the key question posed by President Obama’s July, 2014, Executive Order banning LGBT job discrimination by federal contractors….
On March 16, 2015, Gordon College announced that, after an extensive review process, it is maintaining its conduct policy for students, faculty, and staff that,…
Last week, the Michigan House of Representatives passed a legislation package that would provide protections for religious child placement organizations. All three pieces of proposed…