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New Federal Rules to End Discrimination Against Faith-Based Child Welfare Providers
The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed new rules that would end regulations put in place by the Obama Administration that prohibited faith-based child welfare providers from receiving federal funding without abandoning their beliefs.
Posted in Federal
Tagged adoption, Alliance Defending Freedom, Department of Health and Human Services, DHH, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, foster care, Russell Moore, Trump Administration, Zach Pruitt
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IFI Joins Conservative Coalition to Expose the SPLC
Blockbuster news came out this week revealing that Twitter has cut ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) because of reports of controversial financial activity, leaders tainted by scandal, and–according to one source–a “toxic” work environment.
The news has rocked an organization whose stated purpose is to combat discrimination, intolerance, and groups that in the view of the SPLC, practice hatred towards others. The organization reports such groups to the FBI and is often cited by the media. Academics and others rely upon SPLC’s listings, which they in turn use to ostracize such groups.
Founded in 1971 and based …
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Jihad Watch, Mat Staver, Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center, Stephen Bright
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Watching a Bully Get Smacked
It appears that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is having a long overdue comeuppance.Seven years ago, inspired by SPLC’s “hate map,” a gunman walked into the Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington, intending to massacre the staff and then stuff Chick-fil-A sandwiches in their faces.FRC is among many Christian organizations targeted by the SPLC for pro-family stances. During the 1990s, FRC helped draft the Defense of Marriage Act and defended the right of the military and the Boy Scouts to adhere to traditional morality. Over the years, FRC has produced a mountain of meta-research papers that debunk the many…
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged 'Hate' Map, Alliance Defending Freedom, AmazonSmile, Boy Scouts, Chick-fil-A, D. James Kennedy Ministries, Family Research Council, Floyd Lee Corkins II, GuideStar USA, Internal Revenue Service, Kristen Waggoner, Ku Klux Klan, Leo Johnson, Liberty Counsel, Morris Dees, Richard Cohen, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, Tom Cotton
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Hate, Inc. Loses the Pentagon But Gains Silicon Valley
The hate business may not be what it used to be – at least on the government level.
The Defense Department has become the latest federal agency to sever ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based, hard-left group whose “hate map” is being used against Christian groups.
Well, bully for the Pentagon for showing that bully to the door.
The DOD’s pullback from the SPLC was reported by the Daily Caller, which said that a Justice Department attorney stated in an email that the DOD “removed any and all references to the SPLC in training materials used …
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Amazon Smile, American College of Pediatricians, American Family Association, Ben Carson, D. James Kennedy Ministries, Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, Discover/Diners Club, Facebook, Family Research Council, Floyd Lee Corkins II, Google, GuideStar, Jeff Bezos, Liberty Counsel, Mat Staver, Raymond Jackson, Silicon Valley, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, the Ruth Institute, Tim Cook, Twitter
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Colorado Cake Artist
Earlier this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a historic ruling, striking down the State of Colorado’s decision against Jack Phillips. Though Jack served all customers, the State of Colorado punished Jack for declining to participate in a same-sex wedding.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Colorado Court of Appeals, Colorado Supreme Court, Jack Phillips, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Kristen Waggoner, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, U.S. Supreme Court
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Why the Masterpiece Cake Case Matters to All Americans
Should a gay baker be required by law to design a cake with the message, “God hates fags”? Should an African American t-shirt maker be required by law to design a t-shirt saying, “Long live the KKK?” Should a Muslim caterer be required by law to provide pork for a secular event? Should a Jewish photographer be required to shoot a wedding on the Sabbath? The answer to all these questions is: Of course not. Why, then, should a Christian baker be required by law to design a cake celebrating the “wedding” of two women (or men)?
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Jack Phillips, Masterpiece Cakes, SCOTUS
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Black Church Leaders Defend Baker in Wedding Cake Case
A Colorado baker has a right not to make a wedding cake celebrating a same-sex marriage that is against his faith, and the LGBT agenda is not a new civil rights movement, black Christian leaders said Monday outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The nine leaders spoke in support of Jack Phillips, whose lawyers will ask the high court...
Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Dean Nelson, Family Research Council, Frederick Douglass Foundation, Garland Hunt, Jack Phillips, Janet Boynes, Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, William Avon Keen
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Religious Freedom Cases Stacking Up
Court cases across the country continue to point to the big showdown coming soon at the U.S. Supreme Court.In the ongoing legal battles over religious freedom, there are advances and setback. One win happened last month. When Amy Larson, a Christian photographer in Wisconsin who declines to photograph so-called same-sex weddings, saw what was happening to similar photographers across the country, she was concerned that her decision would violate local and state law. So, she decided she wasn’t going to shoot any weddings.But she also decided to challenge a local ordinance and the state law. And she won! But…
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Amy Larson, Blaine Adamson, Carl and Angel Larsen, Christian Worldview, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Religious Liberty
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Judge Loses Her Position for Belief in Traditional Marriage
Busy schedule? Valid reason. Don’t know the couple? Valid reason. Watching football? Still a valid reason. Violates your conscience? You’re fired. Or so goes the logic of the Wyoming Supreme Court.
In December 2014, a reporter asked Judge Ruth Neely whether her faith would allow her to perform a same-sex “wedding” in her official capacity as a local municipal judge. Citing her belief in the Biblical definition of marriage, Judge Ruth Neely said she could not. Judge Neely had not been asked to do a same-sex ceremony. In spite of the fact that many other judges in the district were …
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Ruth Neely, Same-sex marriage, SCOTUS, Wyoming Supreme Court
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Pregnancy Centers Win Second Injunction against Illinois Abortion Referral Mandate
A Federal District Court has granted a preliminary injunction in a right-of-conscience case, the controversy of which the Illinois Family Institute has been following for several years.
The religious liberty defending law firm of Mauck & Baker, LLC is reporting some very good news out of that Federal District Court regarding an Illinois law mandating that pro-life medical personnel provide their clients with positive information about abortion services:
Posted in Illinois Politics, Religious Liberty
Tagged Abortion, Alliance Defending Freedom, Freedom of Conscience, Mauck & Baker LLC, Noel W. Sterett
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Christian Leaders Call on Congressional Leaders to Support the ‘Free Speech Fairness Act’
Last October the Illinois Family Institute brought attention to the “Free Speech Fairness Act.” Now faith leaders from around the country, including IFI's executive director David E. Smith, are signing a letter addressed U.S. Congressional leaders calling for the passage of the bill. This letter was delivered earlier this week...
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, Free Speech Fairness Act, IRS, Jody Hice, John Shimkus, Johnson Amendment, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan, Randy Hultgren, Steve Scalise
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Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford Wins Injunction
It seems that our nation's founding fathers were not clear enough with their use of language in the First Amendment, which protects some of our God-given rights. That "make no law" thing is confusing for many, and that "abridging" business, well, that's way over the heads of Illinois Leftist lawmakers.
Posted in Faith, Illinois Politics, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Matt Bowman, Michele Bachmann, Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford
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Christian Physicians Join the Emerging Transgender Debate
Suddenly transgender rights is the hot “culture wars” topic. Religious folks with traditional convictions about such matters have been largely silent, or else many newswriters haven’t yet figured how to locate them in order to report the other side of this crucial debate.
Posted in Sexuality
Tagged Abortion, Alliance Defending Freedom, Christian Medical and Dental Associations, Christianity, Church and State, CMDA, ethics, Evangelicals, Health, Human Rights Campaign, LGBT, Richard Ostling
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