Tag Archives: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Defending Religious Liberty
How does Illinois compare to Oklahoma and Florida in protecting religious liberty? Do we have weak or strong protections for health-care workers, the ability of religious organizations to refuse participation in marriage and weddings that violate religious beliefs, and exemptions to childhood immunization requirements. What are the states with the best safeguards of free exercise in the nation?
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, First Liberty Institute, Illinois Civil Rights Act, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Religious Liberty in the States
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Radical Pro-Abortion Bill in Washington D.C.
Last Friday, by a vote of 218 to 211, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a radical pro-abortion bill that would essentially codify Roe v. Wade. The so-called "Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021" (H.R. 3755) would create an absolute right to abortion in federal law, superseding all state laws. The vote fell along party lines, with only one Democrat—U.S. Representatives Henry Cuellar (D-TX)—voting against the bill.
Posted in Federal, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Abortion, Bill Foster, Bobby Rush, Brad Schneider, Cheri Bustos, Chuy Garcia, Danny Davis, Dick Durbin, Doe v. Bolton, Jan Schakowsky, Lauren Underwood, Marie Newman, Mike Quigley, Mitch McConnell, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Robin Kelly, Roe v. Wade, Sean Casten, Susan Collins, Tammy Duckworth, Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021
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Agnostics, Orthodox Jews, Catholics and Evangelicals Agree: ‘Equality Act’ is Dangerous to Human Rights
The Newsweek article by Natasha Chart and Rabbi Yaakov Menken begins with these words: “It would be hard to accuse an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and an agnostic feminist leader of walking in lockstep.” All the more would this be true if you added Catholics to the mix, then threw in some evangelicals. What cause could bring such disparate people together, all united as one?
Posted in Federal, Sexuality
Tagged Equality Act, H.R. 5, Mat Staver, Natasha Chart, Newsweek, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Yaakov Menken
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Opponents’ Blueprint for a “Secular” Constitution Would Be Unrecognizable to America’s Founders
Recently, an activist group known as the Secular Democrats of America (SDA) sent a document to the president and the administration with a directive “to take back the mantle of religious freedom and pluralism.”
On the surface, the title—Restoring Constitutional Secularism and Patriotic Pluralism in the White House—makes the SDA’s mission sound appealing.
On the surface, the title—Restoring Constitutional Secularism and Patriotic Pluralism in the White House—makes the SDA’s mission sound appealing.
Posted in Federal
Tagged Coach Kennedy, Danbury Baptists, Equality Act, Fulton v. City of Pennsylvania, Joe Kennedy, Kelle Berry, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, SCOTUS, Secular Democrats of America, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court
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Banning Christianity: U.S. House Passes Faux-Equality Act
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the disastrous and dishonestly titled Equality Act that if passed into law will not merely gut First Amendment protections but effectively ban Christianity and any other religions that teach that homoerotic acts and cross-sex impersonation are immoral.This proposal (H.R. 5) passed Friday afternoon by a vote of 236 to 173 (with 23 not voting). The Illinois Congressional delegation voted along party lines.
Posted in Federal, Sexuality
Tagged Brian Fitzpatrick, Darrin LaHood, Doug Wilson, Douglas Laycock, Elise Stefanik, Equality Act, Greg Walden, H.R. 5, John Katko, Mario Diaz-Balart, National Review, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Susan Brooks, Tom Reed, Will Hurd
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Vice President Pence’s Religious Persecution Warning is Already Here!
Hoosiers know that our own Mike Pence is one of the best orators in Washington, DC. It was no surprise to hear the positive reviews the Vice President received from his commencement speech at Liberty University on Saturday.
Posted in Sexuality
Tagged Abortion, Equality Act, Mike Pence, Religious Freedom, Religious Freedom Restoration Act
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Must We Have Sharia in America?
American courts are being told that certain outrageous activities are actually normal, constitutionally protected, Islamic religious behavior.
Posted in Islam & Sharia
Tagged fatwa, Little Sisters of the Poor, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA, Salmon Rushdie, sharia
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Rights of Conscience Lawsuit Filed in Response to SB 1564
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing an Illinois doctor and two pregnancy care centers filed suit in state court against Gov. Bruce Rauner after he recently signed a bill into law that forces doctors and medical facilities to promote abortion regardless of their ethical or moral views on the practice.
ADF sent a letter to Rauner in May on behalf of numerous pro-life physicians, pregnancy care centers, and pregnancy care center network organizations advising him that the bill, SB 1564, would violate federal law and therefore place federal funding, including Medicaid reimbursements, in jeopardy. ADF also warned legislators about the problems …
Posted in Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Alliance Defending Freedom, Bruce Rauner, Illinois Healthcare Right of Conscience Act, Kevin Theriot, Matt Bowman, Mauck & Baker, Noel Sterett, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, SB 1564, The Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford v. Rauner
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New LGBT Target: Doctors
Remember the 11,588,500 word bill passed by Congress in 2010, accompanied by the hopeful promise of easy-access healthcare? The bill that continues to cause the closure of small businesses and price hikes in the insurance market? That’s right, the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) strikes again.
Posted in Federal, Religious Liberty, Sexuality
Tagged Affordable Care Act, Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Civil Rights Act of 1964, ObamaCare, Obergefell v. Hodges, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Religious Freedom Restoration Act
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Three Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Rulings Christians Should Know About
In what is already a controversial session amidst the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on many cases in the upcoming months that will have wide reaching effects in American life. Here are three decisions which Christians should know about.
Posted in Federal, Religious Liberty
Tagged Antonin Scalia, Hobby Lobby, Kermit Gosnell, ObamaCare, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley, Whole Women’s Health v. Cole, Zubik v. Burwell
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Georgia Guts Religious Freedom Bill
On Wednesday night, the Georgia legislature introduced new language to its religious freedom bill and passed the bill in mere hours. Haste makes waste. This new language significantly waters down a religious freedom bill that had real force even though it was, as we pointed out three weeks ago, already lacking in certain respects.
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Tagged Georgia, Religious Freedom, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA
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