biggest threats to religious freedom: money, ignorance
What the government funds, it always regulates, said Walker, director of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.. ..…
What the government funds, it always regulates, said Walker, director of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.. ..…
About four-in-ten of those with at least degree say they have contributed money to candidate or group working to elect in the past five years, about double the share of those. ..…
We have long history of creating First Amendment resources based on the needs of our community, said Barbara McCormack, president of Newseum at Freedom Forum Institute.. ..…
The American Communications Association (“ACA”), represented by Victor, was an immediate target. Victor’s First Amendment challenge to 9(h) was rejected by the three judge court (one judge dissenting). ..…
The campaign seeks to focus American in protecting and defending First Amendment and press in particular — the missions of Newseum and Freedom Forum Institute.. ..…
Trump administration is vastly expanding exemptions to birth control requirements, allowing even more corporate executives to use their religious beliefs to deny employees health services.. ..…
The organizations signing this letter are among the fiercest proponents of First Amendment, and its protection of speech. majority, 72%, of American voters support Johnson Amendment and the idea that nonprofits should not be spending tax exempt donations on endorsing candidates..…
Last October, ing letter to Scott Smith, the superintendent of Louisiana's Bossier Parish Schools.. ..…
The decision should have surprised no one familiar with Constitution, the political thought of Founders nor the struggle for liberty preceding First Amendment. The goal of established churches Europe at the time of American Revolution and either through coerced conversions of..…
Having more than one wife can be made a crime by state law, and a Mormon could not defend himself by saying that the First Amendment protects his behavior. . Some American Indians use peyote in a ritual observance. A man named Alfred Smith did so and was fired for drug use by his..…
Kennedy's most courageous acts, rs of his work, was to vote with the in the court's two 5-4 rulings to protect burning American as form of political protest under First Amendment.. ..…
New York, NY, 3/2/2017- The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the American Society of News Editors (ASNE), along with more than 80 other organizations committed to the First Amendment right of freedom of speech and the press, condemn efforts by the Trump..…
The cast of those who took part in the contest concerning the rights of Muslims, imagined and real, is not confined to famous political elites but includes Presbyterian and Baptist protestors against Virginia’s religious establishment; the Anglican lawyers James Iredell and Samuel Johnston in North..…
Keep Rockin (The American Spectator, September) . The Los Angeles Times vs. the First Amendment. . ... (The American Spectator, April) . A corporation uses its First Amendment rights to denounce First Amendment rights for corporations. . ..…
Susan Allen, who was elected as Minnesota’s first Native American congresswoman in a special election this year in district 62B, chatted with voters about issues. . “The Marriage Amendment…most people are familiar with that amendment. ..…
These and related lawsuits raise complex constitutional questions that have been troubling American courts for more than a century: Do the First Amendment’s religion clauses – which guarantee religious liberty and prohibit all laws “respecting the establishment of religion”..…