Religious Liberty

“the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at HHS [is] a federal watchdog tasked with defending healthcare workers and patients whose faith is increasingly under siege in American medicine.” - CPost

“We need to be vocal and speak out about any kind of violence or racism targeting churches or any of these things, but especially there seems to be more animosity towards Jewish people and Muslims” - Baptist Press

“Mid Vermont Christian School (MVCS) has reached a partial settlement in its legal battle against state athletic officials, securing over half a million dollars in damages after being barred from competition over its stance on transgender athletes by the Vermont Principals Association.” - MinistryWatch

“Upholding the Constitution’s religious liberty protections, which also safeguard our own faith, precludes the government targeting Islam for legal discrimination… But insisting on that freedom of conscience does not mean leveling all religions or pretending there is no conflict of belief between Christianity and Islam….It’s not “Christian nationalism” to recognize that fact.” - CToday

“Locke breaks from the way Christian thinkers had treated these topics for centuries. In the classical Christian tradition, religion is not merely inward belief. It is a lived, embodied reality: sacramental, hierarchical, liturgical, and communal. And while politics should protect rights and prevent harms, it also has a pedagogical function.” - L&L

“He also wrote that there was a simple solution for churches that wanted to avoid being penalized for endorsing candidates: ‘Put differently, if the plaintiffs here gave up their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, none of the harms they allege could occur.’” - RNS

“Canada’s House of Commons has advanced a bill to combat hatred, but it actually threatens religious liberty. Here’s why every Christian should pay attention.” - IFC

“In an 8-1 decision, the court ruled that Colorado’s law, even though it was tailored to licensed professionals, does not overrule free speech protections.” - Axios

Also…

“The Finnish court ruling should be denounced not just as an attack on traditional Christianity but more broadly an attack on freedom of speech and liberty for all. Hate speech laws, with their identitarian political assumptions, make such prosecution of free speech inevitable.” - Juicy Ecumenism

“Though some critiqued the office as inappropriate mixing of church and state, Bush argued in his memoir that ‘government need not fear religion’ even as it ‘should never impose religion.’ The Republican president aimed to create a nonpartisan initiative, choosing Democrats as the first two leaders appointed to direct the office” - MinistryWatch