Posts Tagged ‘Church-State’
Gov. Gregoire vs. Religious Liberty
November 30, 2011
America’s struggling economy can’t afford more boarded up businesses, just because some in government power find conscience protections unsavory.
Belmont Abbey College v. Sebelius (2011-Current)
November 10, 2011
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty represents Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic liberal arts college founded by Benedictine monks, in a lawsuit against the federal government to protect Belmont Abbey’s right to be true to its principles. As a Catholic college, Belmont Abbey teaches that contraception, sterilization, and abortion are against God’s law. So in [...]
Breathing a sigh of relief for sacred religious practices (Hannah Smith in the Deseret News)
October 29, 2011
In early October, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that prohibits local governments from banning the practice of male circumcision. Unless challenged in the courts, this new state law appears to resolve a year-long debate that caught the attention of the U.S. Congress. At a time when victories for the rights of religious individuals [...]
U.S. District Court Holds Trial in Cranston High School Mural Case
October 13, 2011
“The Supreme Court is clear that we don’t have to scrub our public buildings of all historic references to religion.”
PBS Religion and Ethics features Luke Goodrich on Supreme Court Case, Hosanna-Tabor
Click here to watch the video or read the transcript.
Health Care Reform and the HHS mandate on sterilization and all FDA-approved contraceptives (2010-present)
September 30, 2011
Attacks on freedom of conscience in the healthcare industry are accelerating. In August 2011, HHS published regulations that will soon require virtually every employer regardless of conscientious objection to fund contraceptives, sterilizations, and drugs that many believe are chemical abortions. HHS did create an exemption for so-called “religious employers.” But, in doing so, HHS chose [...]
High court set to hear religious liberty case (Hannah Smith in the Deseret News)
September 29, 2011
During its opening week of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in what some deem the most important religious liberty case in decades — Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The case involves a constitutional First Amendment doctrine known as the “ministerial exception,” which the court is [...]
New birth control requirements are a loss for conscience (Hannah Smith in the Deseret News)
August 9, 2011
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued new federal regulations that run roughshod over the moral conscience of many Americans. Promulgated under the health care reform act commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” the new regulations would require an employer to have a health plan that covers sterilization and contraception — which [...]
