The White House announced on June 23, 2014, that the President has directed his staff to prepare an Executive Order banning job discrimination based on…
In programs that deal with marriage, the federal government now says that grantees must treat as married legally-married same-sex couples, no matter the marriage policy…
Congress is nearing agreement on a major overhaul of federal job-training programs, but the revised law will remain biased against religious organizations. Federal job training…
The Obama administration wants to use federal funds and rules to get all states to make pre-K schooling broadly available. He’s backing a bill in…
Trinity Western University in British Columbia, an evangelical liberal arts university, is creating a Christian law school. It has successfully met the government requirements to…
A cluster of recent developments has brought to the fore (again) this key question: what makes a religious college or university a “religious organization” such…
In a 5-4 decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway, May 5, the US Supreme Court upheld the practice of the town council of Greece,…
The federal government has created a three-tier religious freedom system as part of the HHS contraceptives mandate. Churches are fully religious and exempt. Businesses are…
In early April, Harvard Law School hosted a major conference, “Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights.” Co-sponsors were the ACLU, the William Institute…
Watch IRFA president Stanley Carlson-Thies deliver the First Mondays Speaker Series April 7, 2014 at Dordt College. “Why we need institutions in order to be…