Religious Liberty

“A major concern addressed in this year’s report is that ‘international religious freedom is worsening in both the depth and breadth of violations.’”

“Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin recently signed a bill into law that authorizes public school boards to allow schools to offer elective Bible literacy courses and provides state guidance to help establish such classes”

“The justices — at least some who seemed skeptical of the state’s position — proposed the examples as they considered whether the state’s exclusion of a church-operated daycare center from a playground resurfacing program constitutes religious discrimination.”

“Government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion increased in 2015 for the first time in three years, according to Pew Research Center’s latest annual study on global restrictions on religion.”

“But a new survey of evangelical leaders — mainly pastors whose flocks were crucial to Trump’s victory in November — shows that close to 90 percent of those asked opposed the idea of clergy endorsing politicians from the pulpit.”

A Christian street preacher was locked up and charged with a hate crime for quoting from the Book of Genesis in response to a gay teenager’s questions on how God views homosexuals.

“Scholarly Denver judge who ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby would fill Scalia’s seat as the court’s only Protestant.” CToday

Multiple churches in the state of Massachusetts filed for a preliminary injunction due to their religious objection to recent non-discrimination policies. At issue are Massachusetts Laws 92A and 98 that prohibit distinction, discrimination or restriction based on gender identity. Jurist

Four Cultural Trends Leading to the Decline of Religious Liberty