Ryan Snow: Religious Freedom What's All the Freedom About - Book cover
Book, Free Exercise, History / Nov 14

Ryan Snow’s new book explores how Congress passed the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and why it matters

Attorney Ryan Snow has released a new book that is designed to bring non-lawyers up to date on the most important religious liberty debate facing America. Religious Freedom: What’s All the Freedom About recounts the history behind religious freedom laws, and includes an history of how Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, in 1993 – a feat hardly imaginable today.  

Current Events, Supreme Court, Tax Exemption / Oct 25

Analysis: Could churches lose their tax-exempt status if they refuse to recognize same-sex marriage?

Earlier this month, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke stated that he would support removing the tax-exempt status of organizations and institutions that oppose same-sex marriage. Specifically, O’Rourke said, “There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone or any institution or organization in America that denies the full human rights, and the full civil rights of everyone in America.”

Adventist Church Executive Committee 2019 - Abortion Statement - October 16, 2019
Abortion / Contraception, Human Rights / Oct 16

BREAKING: Adventist Church approves pro-life position on abortion

SILVER SPRING, MD – The Executive Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted at its Annual Council meeting [see Video]  to adopt the position that “[t]he Seventh-day Adventist Church considers abortion out of harmony with God’s plan for human life.” The newly adopted position statement affirms that “God considers the unborn child as human life” and that “the principle to preserve life enshrined in the sixth commandment places abortion within its scope.”