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Discrimination

Mayor Bloomberg Gives Stirring Speech on Mosque

August 3, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Filed Under: Discrimination, Featured Video, History, In the News, Politics, Religion

Religious leaders denounce Arizona immigration law (BBC)

June 5, 2010 by Martin Surridge

EXCERPT: June 4, 2010 – Religious leaders in the US and Latin America have denounced Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. The law requires police to question people about their immigration status, if officers suspect the person is in the US illegally, and if they have stopped them for a legitimate reason. Archbishop Rafael Romo Munoz, […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Current Events, Discrimination, Human Rights, In the News, International, Politics, Religion

Workplace Religious Freedom Bill Finds Revived Interest (Religion News Service)

May 10, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

EXCERPT: May 5, 2010 – WASHINGTON (RNS) — More than a decade after it was first introduced, an on-again off-again bill to protect employees’ religious expression in the workplace is attracting renewed attention that could lead to action on Capitol Hill in coming weeks. . . . “The bill will be introduced to Congress soon […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Discrimination, Employment Law, Legal Issues Tagged With: ACLU, Carolyn McCarthy, John Kerry, Orrin Hatch, Richard Foltin, Seventh-day Adventist, Sikh, Workplace Religious Freedom Act, WRFA

Michael Newdow – Question to Justice Scalia: Does the Establishment Clause Permit the Disregard of Devout Catholics?

April 28, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Dr. Michael Newdow, an attorney and physician famous for his litigation on church-state issues from an atheist perspective, and and previous article contributor to ReligiousLiberty.TV, has now published an important law review article for the Capital University Law Review that discusses the history of American religious freedom and tolerance and why the majority should carefully consider the […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Civil Rights, Current Events, Discrimination, History, Supreme Court Tagged With: Catholics, Civil Rights, Colonial Era, Constitution, Discrimination, Equality, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, McCreary, Michael Newdow, Protestant, Religion, Scalia

Video: Oregon Governor Repeals Ban on Teachers’ Religious Dress

April 2, 2010 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Discrimination, Featured Video Tagged With: Brad Avakian, Dave Hunt, Greg Hamilton, Oregon Workplace Religious Freedom Act, Rhonda Bolton, SALDEF, Sikh Community, Teachers Garb, Ted Kulongoski, WRFA

Oregon Legislature Votes Down 1923 Ban on Teachers Wearing Religious Dress

March 17, 2010 by Administrator

Oregon Legislature Votes Down 1923 Ban on Teachers Wearing Religious Dress By Michael Peabody – This month we have a couple of big stories coming out of the great Pacific Northwest. In Oregon, the legislature has passed a bill championed by the Northwest Religious Liberty Association that overturns a 87-year-old law that prohibited teachers from […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Current Events, Discrimination, Employment Law, In the News

Northwest Religious Liberty Association Honors Oregon Speaker Dave Hunt

October 16, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Representative Dave Hunt, speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, was awarded by the Northwest Religious Liberty Association (NRLA) at the Oregon Conference Campmeeting in Gladstone on July 17, 2009 for his legislative sponsorship of the Oregon Workplace Religious Freedom Act, Senate Bill 786 (SB 786) which was signed into law by Governor Ted Kulongoski.  There were […]

Filed Under: Discrimination, Employment Law, Featured Video Tagged With: Dave Hunt, Greg Hamilton, Northwest Religious Liberty Association, Oregon Workplace Religious Freedom Act, SB 786, Workplace Religious Freedom Act, WRFA

3 states still ban religious clothing for teachers (Associated Press)

September 2, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

EXCERPT: PORTLAND, Ore. – A law backed by the Ku Klux Klan nearly a century ago to keep Catholics out of public schools is still on the books in Oregon, one of the last states in the nation to prohibit teachers from wearing religious clothing in classrooms. Both Pennsylvania and Nebraska have similar laws, which […]

Filed Under: Current Events, Discrimination, Education, History, In the News

Civil Rights Pioneer E.E. Cleveland talks about meeting Martin Luther King, Jr.

September 1, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

On August 30, 2009, renowned evangelist Edward Earl Cleveland died at Huntsville Hospital in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 88.  Cleveland worked for more than 60 years as a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, evangelist, church leader, teacher, and civil rights leader. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. attended one of Cleveland’s tent meetings in 1954 in Montgomery and […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Current Events, Discrimination, History, Multimedia, New, Video Tagged With: Civil Rights, E. E. Cleveland

Tennesee governor signs Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law

August 16, 2009 by Michael Peabody

  On July 1, 2009, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law.  Introduced in February, House Bill 1598 requires Tennessee courts to apply the “compelling state interest” test to cases in which a law substantially burdens one’s right of free exercise of religion. The state now has the burden of […]

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Current Events, Discrimination, New, Politics, Top Story Tagged With: HB 1598, Phil Bredesen, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA

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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.

Boston City Hall - photo from Supreme Court Opinion

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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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

— Helen Keller

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