HHS could learn a thing or two from the USDA
February 26, 2013
The USDA rightly recognizes that there are ways both to further the government’s interest in promoting health and to respect religious believers’ right of conscience.
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BECKET BLOG
For the Religious Liberty Legal Community
New York City targets Orthodox Jews — again
February 25, 2013
Perhaps it is time for the citizens of New York to issue a new remonstrance to government officials who are targeting the religious minorities of today. (more…)
Homeland Security admits it got it wrong on religious freedom
February 5, 2013
In essence FPS and the IRS are saying that having cake at employee birthday parties is more important than the First Amendment right to exercise one’s religion
Supreme Court asked to revisit eminent domain abuse
January 8, 2013
By: Eric Rassbach,
Deputy General Counsel, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Yesterday a broad coalition of civil rights and public policy groups, including the Becket Fund, the CATO Institute, and others joined together in an amicus brief to ask the Supreme Court to take up a case, Ilagan v. Ungacta, involving eminent domain abuse. (more…)
Pastor Rick Warren on Hobby Lobby Lawsuit
January 4, 2013
Any religion that cannot be lived out … at home and work, is nothing but a meaningless ritual.
Statement by Rick Warren on Hobby Lobby Lawsuit: (more…)
New PBS Documentary “First Freedom” Explores Faith of U.S. Founding Fathers & the Path to Religious Liberty in America
December 18, 2012
How Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and Others Set a New Course for Faith and Politics, Film Airs December 18
Quiet Surrender in Precedent-Setting Counselor Conscience Case
December 13, 2012
“Permitting secular exemptions but not religious ones and failing to apply the policy in an even-handed, much less a faith-neutral, manner to Ward.” – 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
