Religious Liberty

“To answer the question we must first consider how taxation of church property, including clergy housing, has historically been considered.” - Acton Institute

“ONTARIO, Calif. (BP) — Gateway Seminary is cooperating with Facebook to show the school is not a “hate group” in efforts to boost a post describing the Bible as the ultimate authority.” - BP News

“An evangelical church is suing the state of Washington over a new law requiring employers to cover abortion in insurance plans if those policies also cover maternity.” - BP News

“A church filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the state of Washington over a new law that forces it to cover abortions in its health care plans. …It has no religious exemptions.” - Christian Headlines

“A piece of legislation known as the Equality Act is expected to be introduced soon by House Democrats. The bill’s provisions add the categories of ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ to the list of protected classes in the 1964 Civil Rights Act.” - TGC

“[T]he Russian federation has seized the Jehovah’s Witness administrative center campus worth $30.4 million US dollars. The property has been transferred to the Federal State-funded institution Almazov National Medical Research of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation.” - WRN

“In yesterday’s truce, the CCRC dropped its latest discrimination charge against Phillips, and Phillips in turn dropped a 2018 religious bias lawsuit against the commission” - BPNews

“In the early 1990s, you could almost fit the entire religious-liberties bar in a single mid-sized hotel conference room. Now conservative religious-liberties lawyers are the virtual Seal Team Six of the culture war, with multiple organizations raising collectively close to $200 million annually to do battle in courtrooms from coast to coast. What changed?” - David French

“Parsa was not preaching or evangelizing, Bushnell says, but had come to enjoy the mall. Other mall visitors engaged him in friendly conversation about his origins and religion” - World

“The U.S. Supreme Court seemed poised during oral arguments Wednesday to let a 93-year-old war memorial cross stand, although it remains uncertain how far the justices will go in their legal reasoning.” - Christian Headlines