By
David E. Smith
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02.16.12
U.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) has introduced the Military Religious Freedom Protection Act (H.R. 3828) — a bill that would protect the conscience rights of chaplains serving in the United States Armed Forces. Illinois U.S. Representative Randy Hultgren (R-Geneva) has...
By
David E. Smith
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02.13.12
President Barack Obama’s sweeping new proposal announced at Friday’s press conference now places a burden to facilitate abortions on “insurers rather than religious institutions.” The problems with this “compromise” are obvious to most thinking Americans — obvious that is, to...
Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews – Democrat, Republican and independent alike. He has thrown down a radical feminist...
You’d think President Obama, who professes, as all lefties do, to idolize Thomas Jefferson, would know better.
But alas, by imposing an abortifacient requirement on all private employers, including Catholic hospitals and universities, Obama has taken a bulldozer to Jefferson’s...
Over one hundred Catholic bishops and institutions across the nation have issued statements denouncing the Obama administration’s national requirement to include contraception in employees’ health benefits. Bishop Thomas G. Doran of the Rockford Diocese issued a strongly worded statement urging...
By
David E. Smith
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02.01.12
School officials at Shawano High School in Wisconsin have censored and punished Brandon Wegner, a 15-year-old, for writing an op-ed article explaining the Biblical view of homosexuality and supporting natural mother-father adoption, according to Liberty Counsel.
After Brandon wrote this...
By
David E. Smith
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01.30.12
The Sixth Circuit issued a ruling on Friday in Julea Ward’s suit against Eastern Michigan University (EMU). The University expelled Ms. Ward, a counseling student, when she expressed concerns about counseling individuals engaged in extra-marital sexual relationships.
In the original...
By
David E. Smith
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01.24.12
The United States Supreme Court has issued a monumental decision protecting the independence of American churches in church governance matters.
The High Court ruled that churches have the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to make their own employment decisions free from government...
12.09.11
A young woman was fired from the Macy’s San Antonio Rivercenter department store for refusing to violate her religious beliefs by permitting a young man dressed as a woman from entering the women’s dressing room. Natalie Johnson claims she saw...
By
David E. Smith
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11.28.11
On Tuesday, November 29, 2011, the Springfield Nativity Scene Committee (SNSC) will again erect a natNativity Scene depicting the birth of Jesus Christ. For the third year in a row, the crèche will stand in the State Capitol Rotunda Building...
By
David E. Smith
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11.21.11
Three of Illinois’ Catholic dioceses have decided to drop their lawsuits against the State of Illinois regarding the termination of foster care and adoption services contracts with their Catholic Charities affiliates.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services announced...
By
Laurie Higgins
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09.27.11
The public has likely heard that the ironically — or deceptively — named “Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act” has resulted in the state of Illinois engaging in religious discrimination by refusing to renew its contract with Catholic Charities...
09.15.11
By Bob Kellogg
The Thomas More Society is appealing a decision that allows Illinois to discontinue its contract with Catholic Charities’ foster and adoption care services.
Tom Ciesielka, spokesman for the legal society, says action in this appeal is urgently...
08.06.11
This week, the Thomas More Society filed a “friend of the court” brief available here in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on behalf of more than 60 members of the Indiana General Assembly, in opposition...
By
Laurie Higgins
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07.12.11
Yesterday, IFI wrote about the decision by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to terminate all contracts with Catholic Charities in four Illinois dioceses. There is some good news to report: Sangamon County Circuit Judge John Schmidt ...
