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The Libertarian: Discrimination, Religious Liberty And How We Undervalue Free...

The Hoover Institution’s Richard Epstein argues that critics of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act are the ones using force in an inappropriate fashion. Troy Senik: Richard, there’s been this...

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Religious Nonprofits, Plan Now For Tax-Exemption Battles

While most commentators are still focused upon marriage and federal versus state power, admittedly the actual questions before the United States Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges follow on...

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5 Times Christians Saved America’s Bacon

After the Supreme Court decided last week that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right, Christianity came under fire. The American Civil Liberties Union recently reversed their support for the...

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Top 10 Religious Liberty Events Of 2015

2016 is already shaping up to be an exciting year for freedom, but before the fun begins, let’s review the biggest winners (and losers) of 2015. The following are not in order of importance—just...

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The Left Is Now Targeting Christian Schools In Its Potty Crusades

The bathroom wars are consuming a huge amount of space and time in all our minds. Many parents are hoping to be able to strategically side-step the whole issue of which bathrooms are for what groups...

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Iowa Bureaucrats Force Trans Bathrooms On Churches, Forbid Non-PC Preaching

Iowa churches and church-run daycares must let males and females pee, dress, and shower next to each other, and pastors and Christians could be brought before extrajudicial tribunals if they “directly...

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Tim Kaine’s Church Just Proved Donald Trump’s Point About Religious Freedom

During his acceptance speech on Thursday night, Donald Trump’s only mention of religious liberty was to condemn the portion of the tax code that prevents churches from advocating for political...

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Here’s What You Can Do To Keep Government From Crushing Religious Charities

The Obama administration has asked the public to find a solution to the almost-five-year legal battle over the Department of Health and Human Services mandate that all people with health insurance pay...

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With Wyoming Judge’s Case, Left Aims To Ban Religious People From Legal Field

If your religious views block you from performing a job, don’t do that job. That’s the Left’s refrain about religion and expressing it. If you’re religious, that’s fine, but it really needs to not...

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Obama Administration Says You’re A Bigot If You Live Your Religion

The battles over religious liberty—or “religious liberty,” as many media reports term it—have been much in the news in the last several years, from the Obama administration’s attempts to compel the...

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Science And Law Side With Gorsuch’s Ruling On The Contraception Mandate

Only days into the confirmation process, and abortion advocacy groups are already attacking Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch for the high crime of agreeing with the Supreme Court’s majority decisions...

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ACLU Talks A Big Game About Free Speech While Attacking It Unrelentingly

Well, now, here’s a curious thing for the American Civil Liberties Union to post on its very own website. One almost wonders if their attorneys know it’s up there. Under “Freedom of Expression in the...

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Why Christians Object To Participating In A Same-Sex Wedding (It Isn’t Bigotry)

One popular way to resolve the tension between same-sex marriage and religious freedom is to criticize the motivations of religious believers. Usually that criticism is based upon, at best, ignorance...

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Bernie Sanders: Muslims Should Have Religious Freedom, But Christians Shouldn’t

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders believes Muslims should be judged by their “views and abilities,” not by their religion. When it comes to Christians? Not so much. On Wednesday, Sanders applied a religious...

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East Lansing Bans Apple Farmer From Market For Being A Faithful Catholic

Imagine the following bizarre conversation after a New York City police officer pulled someone over on the way to Newark Airport. Officer: Is that a 32-ounce soft drink? Man: Yes, officer. Officer:...

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Report: Attacks On America’s First Freedom Increased 76 Percent In Three Years

More than 200 years ago, the young United States was learning to walk in its freshly won freedom and the Constitution born of it. Our experiment in self-governance, based on the idea that our Creator...

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Here’s The Speech Jeff Sessions Delivered To Christian First Amendment Lawyers

Thank you for that introduction. And thank you for the important work that you do every day to uphold and protect the right to religious liberty in this country. This is especially needed today. While...

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Why Is The Justice Department Telling Churches They Can’t Defend Themselves...

As legal cases go, Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Trump is slightly complex. As politics goes, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) involvement makes it even more so. Reporter John Gizzi alluded to...

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How Property Disputes Can Threaten People’s Right To Freely Exercise Their...

Recently Christianity Today released a startling discovery: The number one reason churches end up in court is no longer child abuse, as it was during the years of the Catholic Church scandals. For the...

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The Iconoclasts Come For World War I Memorials

It seems the iconoclasts have graduated from tearing down the Civil War monuments to World War I memorials. A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a 40-foot-tall monument erected nearly a century...

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