Tag: religious liberty

Religious freedom expert spoke on how interfaith dialogue and freedom advocacy lifts up faith communities in Spokane and worldwide on Jan. 29.

Troy, Idaho, fights federal religious discrimination lawsuit, arguing DOJ mischaracterizes legitimate zoning decision as bias against Christ Church. Small town defends local planning authority.

This week in religion news: A legal fight over clergy-penitent privilege, major church leadership elections, a new hate crimes hotline in Washington, and IRS shifts on church political endorsements.

The expansion of the concept of speech to include everything from donating money to wearing a shirt to burning a flag is weakening enforcement of the First Amendment. If everything is speech, nothing is speech.

I hope, in 2017, for a resolution to the glaring conflict that Donald Trump brings with him into the White House.

Still, some in Indiana say that no-compromise attitude is more likely to backfire on the most zealous defenders of religious liberty.

(RNS) Tennessee wildlife regulations allow zoos to keep venomous snakes, but there is no provision for churches to have them. The Rev. Andrew Hamblin, co-star of the National Geographic series "Snake Salvation," says that violates his congregation’s religious liberty.