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Biden OSHA vaccine mandate raises constitutional concerns

November 7, 2021 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

On Saturday, November 6, the 5th Circuit suspended enforcement of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate.  The Biden administration does claim direct power to force the general public to receive the vaccine, but it intends to do so through employers. Last week, via the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the administration issued […]

Filed Under: COVID-19

Court refuses to block Maine mandate that allows medical but not religious exemptions

October 29, 2021 by Michael Peabody

The United States Supreme Court refused to issue a preliminary injunction to temporarily block a Maine rule requiring certain healthcare workers to take the COVID-19 vaccine or lose their jobs or medical practices, allowing for medical but not religious exemptions.

Filed Under: Church and State, COVID-19, Religion, Supreme Court

On the Vaccine and Religious Liberty

October 6, 2021 by Michael Peabody

Religious liberty and COVID-19 vaccines

  We have received more contacts from readers about the COVID-19 vaccine than any other since we went live in 2008. This is understandable because most religious liberty issues only affect a few people, but almost everybody reading this is being asked to take “the jab” or potentially face some dire consequences. I read in […]

Filed Under: COVID-19, Health, Religious Accommodation

Court to consider tax funding of religious schools, pre-viability abortion ban, and clergy activity at executions

October 3, 2021 by Michael Peabody

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This term, the Supreme Court will be revisiting the issue of whether states must fund religious schools, whether clergy members can say prayers during executions of inmates, and whether a state can ban abortion before viability. The following is a brief summary and analysis of the cases. 

Filed Under: 14th Amendment, Human Life, Supreme Court

COVID-19 and Texas – Of Vaccines, Abortion, Privacy and Bodily Autonomy

September 6, 2021 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Two major stories about what power the government has to control what happens inside a person’s body are making headlines this week. The Courts are Unlikely to Require Religious Accommodation When it Comes to Avoiding the COVID-19 Vaccine The Delta variant of COVID-19 has been wreaking havoc around the world – and part of the […]

Filed Under: Abortion / Contraception, COVID-19

Why the “Shouting Fire in a Crowded Theater” trope should be retired

August 14, 2021 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

How the Supreme Court abandoned the “shouting fire in a crowded theater” trope and what it means in the Age of the Pandemic

Filed Under: Free Speech

Biden administration and Klobuchar bill to restrict freedom of speech online

July 23, 2021 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Citing health and safety concerns, Minnesota Senator (and erstwhile presidential candidate) Amy Klobuchar introduced a bill on Thursday, July 22, 2021, dubbed “The Health Misinformation Act of 2021” that would hold tech companies responsible for allowing misinformation about vaccines and other health issues to spread online. In other words, if you say something about COVID-19 or vaccines or anything else that could be seen as “incorrect,” big tech would now have an obligation to censor you.

Filed Under: COVID-19, Current Events, Free Speech

High Court hands Catholic Social Services narrowly drafted victory

June 18, 2021 by Michael Peabody

The Supreme Court finds for a Catholic foster care service while sidestepping a larger free exercise of religion issue.

Filed Under: Current Events, Discrimination, Free Exercise, Legal Issues, Marriage, Religious Institutions, Supreme Court

California agrees to stop enforcing restrictions on churches and to pay church attorney fees

May 24, 2021 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

After a year of litigation, the state of California is ordered to back down and pay the attorney fees of a church that had to defend its civil right to meet.

Filed Under: Church and State, COVID-19, Religious Institutions Tagged With: Calvary Chapel of Bangor, church restrictions, Gavin Newsom, Harvest Rock Church, Liberty Counsel

California lifts location and attendance limits on churches following Supreme Court ruling

April 12, 2021 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

California Capitol

Following Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, California has lifted restrictions on the number of attendees and location of religious services.

Filed Under: Church and State, COVID-19, Free Exercise

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Biden admin could hand over US control of health emergencies to WHO next week

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The ultimate control over America’s health care and its national sovereignty will be put up for a vote next week at a meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) governing legislative body, the World Health Assembly (WHA).  On May 22-28, 2022, the 75th World Health Assembly will convene at the United Nations […]

Statement on the Leak in Dobbs

The leak was intended to disrupt the processing of the decision and we are not going to dignify the leak or the unidentified leaker by analyzing it prematurely. As a constitutional republic we cannot go down that road without doing severe damage to the institution of the Supreme Court where there must be professional courtesy between the justices and their staffs.

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Supreme Court rules 9-0 that Boston violated 1st Amendment in refusing Christian flag at City Hall

This morning the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Shurtleff v. Boston (Dec’d 5/2/2022) that the city of Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group when it refused to allow them to participate in a city flag raising program.

Active Liberty - a survey of Justice Stephen Breyer's religion clause jurisprudence - Supreme Court

Active Liberty: A Survey of Justice Stephen Breyer’s Religion Clause Decisions

A comprehensive review of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s decisions in Free Exercise and Establishment Clause cases.

Canadian gov’t calculates that expansion of assisted suicide will save taxpayers millions of dollars

In Canada, it is easier for the disabled who do not suffer terminal illness to get approval for assisted suicide than approval for affordable housing. The government has calculated the cost of providing healthcare versus providing assisted suicide.

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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

— Robert H. Jackson

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