Medical Personnel’s Religious Freedoms Threatened by Illinois Senate Bill
By Fran Eaton   |   03.12.15
Illinois doctors, nurses and medical personnel could be forced to make ethical choices between serving God and obeying the State with a bill being considered in the Illinois Senate. Imagine for an instance that you’re a neurologist, and a patient...
Pass the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act
03.10.15
Why do we need a new federal law to protect those whose religious convictions see marriage as it has been understood for our whole national history? Because a war is taking place in America to delegitimize religion.
Watchdog Group Releases Anti-Christian-Bigotry Map
By   |   03.02.15
In 2007, and with that same nauseating arrogance that has come to define him, then presidential candidate Barack Obama duplicitously quipped, “I am absolutely convinced that culture wars are just so ’90s. Their days are growing dark.” Dark, indeed. America’s...
Speak Freely – So Long as you Agree with Me?
By   |   02.25.15
Is it too much to ask people to listen politely to those with whom they disagree? I hope not.
Judge Threatens to Take Christian Grandmother’s Business, Home & Savings
By   |   02.25.15
A state judge ruled last week that Washington floral artist and grandmother Barronelle Stutzman must provide full support for wedding ceremonies that are contrary to her faith. The court claims that her faith-based decision to refuse to provide floral designs...
Ex-Fire Chief Who Claims He Was Terminated Over His Biblical Views on Homosexuality Sues — and Delivers a Message About ‘Freedom’
02.20.15
Atlanta’s former fire chief who was terminated after he self-published a book that included his faith-based opposition to homosexuality has filed a lawsuit against the city in federal court. This act follows a complaint that his attorneys filed last month with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, citing unlawful discrimination.
Sociologists: ‘Christianophobia,’ Anti-Christian Hostility Infects Powerful Elite Subculture (Interview)
02.13.15
A small, but elite group of Americans demonstrate signs of anti-Christian hostility, sociologists David Williamson and George Yancey claim in their new book, So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States?
High School Student in NJ Wins Case to Keep ‘Under God’ in Pledge of Allegiance
02.07.15
A case filed by the American Humanist Association in New Jersey has gone down in flames, defeated by a high school student named Samantha Jones, backed by lawyers from the  Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and  the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion, which acted in support. Fox News explains what happened:
Religious Liberty vs. Erotic Liberty
By   |   01.14.15
Barely five days after The New York Times ran a major news article on the firing of Atlanta’s fire chief for his views on homosexuality, a major Times opinion writer declared that religious liberty is a fine thing, so long...
Christian Expresses Biblical Worldview, Gets Sacked By Mayor
By   |   01.12.15
A fresh campaign has been launched on behalf of an official with the Atlanta fire department – a Christian – who was fired after making public his biblically based views on homosexuality. Kelvin Cochran, chief of the Atlanta Fire Rescue...
Mayor to Christian Employee ‘You’re Fired!’
01.09.15
Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran was fired from his job this week by the mayor because of his Christian views on marriage.
New Year, Old Resolution
By   |   01.07.15
Every January we make new resolutions for the New Year. But maybe we need to return to an old one: DEFEND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Eric Metaxas: Now is the Time to be All In
By John Biver   |   01.05.15
If you missed the Illinois Family Institute’s annual fall banquet back in September you missed an important keynote speech by bestselling author Eric Metaxas. Combining encouragement and a call to action, Metaxas emphasized that “it is time for us to...
Why We Need RFRAs
01.03.15
Despite their opponents’ claims in 2014, religious-liberty laws benefit many people.
Protecting your church from the “Gay Gestapo”
By   |   01.02.15
Your church may be the next one approached to host a gay wedding and your pastor asked to perform the ceremony. So what can you do to fend off the lawsuits that are certain to follow when you refuse? Homosexual...
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