Post Tagged with: "religious liberty"

by Carolyn Bolton: The Supreme Court’s decision last Monday favoring Hobby Lobby owner David Green and his family’s moral prohibition against providing potentially life-ending drugs to their female employees bodes well for those fighting to preserve religious liberty against those intent on crushing abortion and gay-marriage dissenters. Arguably the biggest […]

by Kathleen Hunker: Should Texans be forced to choose between providing for their families and practicing their religious faith? What about their right to free speech or their right against unreasonable searches and seizures? Should the government be able to condition our right to earn an honest living on our […]

by Carolyn Bolton: Sandra Fluke Tuesday said there is no room in the marketplace for business owners with moral objections to employer-provided birth control. This is the latest liberal permutation of Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists in which the Establishment Clause is referred to as a “wall of separation” between church […]

by Prof. Patrick Garry: Religion continues to take a beating in the political arena.  In the wake of Governor Brewer’s recent veto of the Arizona law providing legal protections to business owners who, for deeply held religious convictions, refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings, the political Left has intensified […]

by Kathleen Hunker: Over 50 briefs were filed at the U.S. Supreme Court last week in support of Hobby Lobby, the national arts and crafts retailer battling the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) for its disregard of religious liberty. Although the legal issues varied, several briefs challenged a very corrosive […]

Abortion Always Wins; Religion and Logic Always Lose by Matt Bowman: I was at Columbia Law School recently to debate Obamacare. My opponent was a very friendly attorney from the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), Aram Schvey. We had a lively exchange and Mr. Schvey was a consummate gentleman. But […]

by Josh Carlson: Many on the Religious Right are concerned that the values they hold are reaching their twilight in American society.  The reelection of President Obama and subsequent failures of various conservative causes has caused many to pause, wondering how to be the salt and light of the earth (Matthew […]

by Kathleen Hunker Mayor Bloomberg may be a national advocate for gun control, but New York City has become the leading advocate for the right to bare arms—well the right to show bare arms anyway. The City’s Commission on Human Rights recently filed a lawsuit against several Hasidic Jewish business […]

by Laura Giunta The arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Saeed Abedini, an American Pastor being punished in Iran for his religious beliefs, is just the latest of Iran’s many human rights violations against Christians. While American human rights groups, such as ACLJ (American Center for Justice and Law), have been […]

by Paul Coleman When is a church not a church? The answer – when the government says so. At least this is the case in several European countries, where a multi-tiered system is strictly operated and only the entities that reach the top tier are officially recognized as churches. While […]