Arizona: High court finds card makers can refuse same-sex wedding invite requests
On September 16, 2019, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that a Phoenix city ordinance cannot require a business to create same-sex wedding invitations…
Chronological & Subject Repository
Author: ReligiousLiberty.TV
September 2019
Catholic / Adventist hospital fires doctor who sued for right to provide suicide drugs
A Colorado doctor who sued Centura Health, a Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist network of hospitals, for the right to dispense aid in dying medication…
August 2019
Court to decide whether Title VII protects LGBT employees
On October 8, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases involving whether the antidiscrimination provisions of Title VII of…
Legal and Legislative Update
An update on the status of Patterson v. Walgreen, New York expands statute of limitations on child sexual abuses case, ministerial exception in disability…
June 2019
FFRF decides not to appeal 7th Circuit opinion upholding parsonage allowance
The Freedom from Religion Foundation has decided not to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the 7th Circuit decision in Gaylor v. Mnuchin…
High Court reverses Oregon finding against bakers and sends case back to lower court for further review
The Supreme Court appears reluctant to squarely address the balance between the free exercise of religion and anti-discrimination statutes, or to discuss a claim…
May 2019
In Congress, Federal Equality Act as drafted faces feminist opposition
Legislation that would add sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 threatens women's bodily privacy says feminist organization
Podcast highlights religious liberty and social justice through Adventist lens
Peter Chung, a history teacher at San Gabriel Academy in Southern California, hosts a religious liberty and social justice podcast series, "Healing the Nations,"…
April 2019
Vatican calls for religious freedom amidst competing strains of secularism and fundamentalism
The Vatican has released a document, “Religious Liberty for the Good of All,” calling for an expansion of religious liberty in the face of…
January 2019
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom of 1786 reminds us of the mutual benefits of church-state separation
The Virginia legislators who approved the religious freedom statute in 1786, separating church and state, recognized the potential for change, and call the Americans…