IRFA President Delivers 2013 Kuyper Lecture at Calvin College

IRFA President Delivers 2013 Kuyper Lecture at Calvin College

IRFA President Stanley Carlson-Thies on April 25 delivered the 2013 Kuyper Lecture at Calvin College. He defended the religious freedom of faith-based service organizations in…

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Worth Reading on Religious Freedom and Anti-Discrimination Rules

Worth Reading on Religious Freedom and Anti-Discrimination Rules

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on March 22 held a briefing on the intersection between religious freedom and the growing set of non-discrimination requirements….

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Call for Comments:  Combined Federal Campaign Proposed Regulations

Call for Comments: Combined Federal Campaign Proposed Regulations

New regulations for the Combined Federal Campaign have now been officially proposed in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and comments can be submitted through June…

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Protecting Religious Freedom

Protecting Institutional Religious Freedom

Increasingly, governments are imposing on faith-based service organizations laws and regulations that do not respect their freedom to be distinctive—to serve their neighbors as they believe God calls them to serve.

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The ACLU's Popular but Bogus Slogan About Religious Freedom

The ACLU’s Popular but Bogus Slogan About Religious Freedom

The American Civil Liberties Union’s 2013 Work plan, not to mention its fundraising letters, public arguments, and legislative commentary, have adopted a wrong-headed, but popular,…

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ENDA Correction

ENDA Correction

The previous edition of the eNews for Faith-Based Organizations carried an article on a likely Employment Nondiscrimination (ENDA) Executive Order. The article inadvertently included misleading…

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Why So Much Religious Freedom Action in the States?

Why So Much Religious Freedom Action in the States?

If you scan the right sources, the headlines have been full of such stories lately: * The Kentucky legislature “overwhelmingly” overrode the governor’s veto of…

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ENDA Executive Order On the Way?

ENDA Executive Order On the Way?

About two weeks ago, 110 members of Congress sent President Obama a letter pressing him to issue an ENDA (Employment Nondiscrimination Act) Executive Order banning…

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One Week Left to Comment on Contraceptives Mandate Proposed Rules

One Week Left to Comment on Contraceptives Mandate Proposed Rules

April 8 is the deadline to submit comments in response to the early-February “proposed rules” (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking–NPRM) about “accommodating” non-exempt religious organizations that…

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RFRA Remedy for VAWA Restrictions on Religious Hiring

RFRA Remedy for VAWA Restrictions on Religious Hiring

As noted in the previous issue of the eNews for Faith-Based Organizations, the bill Congress recently passed (now signed by the President) to reauthorize the…

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