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.

Business concerns aside, the question raised by this spate of recent legislation is: where does religious liberty end and the liberty of those affected by religious liberty begin?

Was it the Hollywood threat to boycott Georgia or the NFL threat to withhold a Super Bowl? Gov. Nathan Deal didn’t say as he vetoed a bill on Monday (March 28) that a chorus of major studios, sports leagues and business leaders denounced as legalizing discrimination against gay people.