ReligiousLiberty.TV / Founders' First Freedom®  – News and Updates on Religious Liberty and Freedom
Menu
  • Home
  • Articles
  • Church and State
  • In the News
  • In the News
  • Supreme Court
  • Free Speech
  • Legislation
Menu

Author: Michael Peabody

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

Posted on October 29, 2021November 6, 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.

Read more
Religious liberty and COVID-19 vaccines

On the Vaccine and Religious Liberty

Posted on October 6, 2021February 7, 2022 by Michael Peabody

  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…

Read more
Supreme Court - DepositPhotos.com

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

Posted on October 3, 2021 by Michael Peabody

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. 

Read more

High Court hands Catholic Social Services narrowly drafted victory

Posted on June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 by Michael Peabody

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

Read more

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Workplace Religious Accommodation Cases

Posted on April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 by Michael Peabody

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would not be hearing two major workplace religious accommodation cases.

Read more

Dr. C. Norman Farley passes to his rest

Posted on December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 by Michael Peabody

We are sad to announce the passing of Dr. C. Norman Farley in November 2020.  He formally served on our Advisory panel beginning in 2016, and he, along with his wife Alice, have been great supporters and volunteers of ReligiousLiberty.TV and Founders’ First Freedom. 

Read more

Supreme Court not likely to make individual FBI agents pay for allegedly violating Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Posted on October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 by Michael Peabody

On October 6, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case on the issue of whether individual FBI agents can be held financially liable if they are found to have violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  The underlying case involves Muslim-Americans who alleged that individual FBI agents put them on the “no fly” list after they refused to act as informants against fellow Muslims in terrorism-related investigations.

Read more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I dissent!” A Survey of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Religion Clause Jurisprudence

Posted on September 19, 2020February 8, 2022 by Michael Peabody

Ginsburg wrote little on the religion clauses, but she frequently joined with those Justices who favored a strong separation of church and state. 

Read more
Pastor Bob McCoy - Godspeak Calvary Chapel - Newbury Park, CA

Ventura County Sues to Stop Church from Meeting Indoors

Posted on August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 by Michael Peabody

On August 2, 2020, the church again met indoors and Pastor McCoy said he was “willing to go to jail” and “willing for them to take our building” rather than comply with the state and local orders.

Read more

Court rules agency can decide if employers must provide contraceptive coverage

Posted on July 10, 2020July 14, 2020 by Michael Peabody

Supreme Court sidesteps the free exercise claim and grants government agencies the power to determine whether to apply the ACA contraceptive mandates to employers. 

Read more
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • …
  • 27
  • Next
©2025 ReligiousLiberty.TV / Founders' First Freedom® – News and Updates on Religious Liberty and Freedom
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experience, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}