Post Tagged with: “First Amendment”

Church Sues California Over Mandated Abortion Coverage

Church Sues California Over Mandated Abortion Coverage

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a lawsuit in state court Thursday against the California Department of Managed Health Care for forcing churches to pay for elective abortions in their health insurance plans.

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South Dakota Legislative Billwatch, Feb. 3, 2016

South Dakota Legislative Billwatch, Feb. 3, 2016

The South Dakota Legislature will be considering a large number of important bills Wednesday including one to protect religious liberty and the right of conscience, to clarify that boys are boys and girls are girls, gambling, property rights and more.

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ADF Attorney to Testify on Transgender, Religious Freedom Bills

ADF Attorney to Testify on Transgender, Religious Freedom Bills

Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Matt Sharp will testify Wednesday before the South Dakota House State Affairs Committee on two proposed laws: HB 1107, which would “ensure government nondiscrimination in matters of religious beliefs and moral convictions,” and HB 1112, which would establish birth certificates as the primary standard “in identifying a student’s sexual identity for purpose of participation in high school activities.”

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Busting the Myth: ‘Separation of Church and State’

Busting the Myth: ‘Separation of Church and State’

The American church has a problem. It’s one part fear, one part confusion and one part apathy. Pastors, priests and rabbis have long swallowed the false notion that all things religious and all things political are somehow mutually exclusive – that never the twain shall meet.

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Senator Santa Claus Clueless About Supreme Court

Senator Santa Claus Clueless About Supreme Court

If you’ve been hanging around the planet for any length of time – say, 20 minutes or so – you know that Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders doesn’t have a clue about… most anything that matters. But you’d think that a candidate for president might have a cursory understanding of the Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court, right?

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Examining Religious Hostility in the States

Examining Religious Hostility in the States

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a case that addresses the question of whether states can exhibit hostility to religion by prohibiting churches and church-run organizations from participating in state programs solely because the groups are religious.

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Liberty Ridge Farm

Court: No Religious Freedom on Your Own Property

A New York court Thursday affirmed a Division of Human Rights ruling against an upstate couple for declining to coordinate a same-sex wedding ceremony in their own backyard.

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Christian Colleges Resist Obama Abortion Pill Mandate

Christian Colleges Resist Obama Abortion Pill Mandate

Several religious non-profit organizations filed an opening brief Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court in consolidated lawsuits against the Obama administration’s abortion-pill mandate and its religious non-profit options, all of which force the groups to violate their faith.

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Religious Freedom: The Greatest Gift of Christmas

Religious Freedom: The Greatest Gift of Christmas

Last Tuesday, Kentucky’s new governor, Matt Bevin, issued an executive order that eliminates the names of all county clerks from marriage licenses and protects the unalienable constitutional rights and religious freedoms of Kim Davis and all other clerks in Kentucky.

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Christmas Carolers Shut Down on Public Sidewalk

Christmas Carolers Shut Down on Public Sidewalk

Two police officers from the Falls Church Police Department in Virginia told several Christmas carolers to stop singing on a public sidewalk outside of an abortion business. One of the carolers captured the officers on video informing the carolers that singing is prohibited under a noise ordinance and that they must cease singing.

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