After pressure, California school lets homeschooler play ‘Joy to the World’
Now that it’s December, the left wants to make it clear that Santa Claus isn’t the only thing coming to town — so is censorship.
Not all findings of religious freedom index are encouraging
The Religious Freedom Index is based on an online poll surveying a representative sample of 1,000 Americans age 18 and older. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.1%. The consensus supporting religious freedom in America might be broad, but it also may not be very deep.
In a blow to political correctness, Trump praises Salvation Army, says ‘Merry Christmas’
America isn’t the only thing making a comeback under President Donald Trump — so is Christmas. The candidate who vowed, “We’re gonna be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” delivered on that promise again in a big way earlier this month.
Justice Neil Gorsuch said ‘Merry Christmas’ on television and people are going crazy
Leftwing critics suggested the justice was signaling his sympathies with people disturbed at the secularization of American public life by saying “Merry Christmas” instead of its capacious alternative “Happy Holidays.”
63% support religious freedom at work, survey finds
Most Americans support a broad definition of religious freedom and accommodation of minority religious beliefs in the workplace, despite a growing sense of polarization in the public square, according to a new study.
Ruling in Minnesota wedding videographers’ case properly prioritizes First Amendment rights
The truth is that none of these businesses refuse service to gay or lesbian people, nor wish to do so. The vast majority of business activities do not affect anyone’s freedom of speech or religion.
In Minnesota, court issues most important religious liberty decision since Masterpiece Cakeshop
A federal appeals court has revived a legal challenge to the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), ruling for the first time that religious business owners can invoke free speech rights when refusing to service a same-sex wedding.
Vermont hospital violated nurse’s conscience rights on abortion, HHS says
“Forcing medical staff to assist in the taking of human life inflicts a moral injury on them that is not only unnecessary and wrong, it violates long-standing federal law,” Roger Severino, director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights, said in a statement.
Supreme Court upholds war memorial cross on public land
The Supreme Court turned back a constitutional challenge to a 40-foot war memorial cross in Maryland Thursday, finding that the monument does not violate the First Amendment.
Feds apologize after Veterans Affairs removed Bible: ‘Will not be bullied on this issue’
Department of Veterans Affairs staff at the Manchester, New Hampshire, veterans hospital “temporarily removed the Bible from the display out of an abundance of caution” after receiving a complaint, the VA’s national headquarters said in a statement Tuesday.
Trump announces new protections for religious liberty, conscience on National Day of Prayer
President Donald Trump spoke out on religious freedom Thursday, as he vowed to protect conscience rights and to combat anti-Semitism.