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EXCERPT: A North Dakota constitutional amendment about religious freedom will be on the state ballot next year. Secretary of State Al Jaeger says Wednesday that the initiative's supporters got enough signatures to put the issue to a vote. It will be Measure 3 on the June primary election ballot. The proposed amendment says lawmakers may restrict religious behavior only if […]
/ Current Events, Legal Issues, Legislation, Politics, Religion, Supreme Court
By Brent Buttler – In these days in which people's rights seem up for grabs there is a tendency to wish we could go back to the good old days when people had more freedom to live as they chose to live. However, upon further research I have discovered that people's freedoms have been eroding away for quite some time. […]
/ Current Events, History, Religion, Supreme Court
This case involving the ministerial exemotion from employment discrimination statutes could have huge implications for churches and denominations.
/ Church and State, Current Events, Employment Law, Legal Issues, Supreme Court
By Jason Hines – One of my favorite movies is "The American President," (1995) starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening. It is the story of a widowed president who falls in love with a liberal lobbyist. He struggles to navigate his relationship with her while also doing his job as the President. It's a good movie, you should see it […]
/ Church and State, Current Events, Human Rights, Legal Issues, Supreme Court
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/ Church and State, In the News, Legal Issues, Supreme Court
Today Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Administration announced that the Justice Department will no longer attempt to defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (which defines “marriage” as between one man and one woman and “spouse” as a member of the opposite sex) from challenges in states that recognize gay marriage.
/ Church and State, Civil Rights, Current Events, Discrimination, Family, Human Rights, In the News, Legal Issues, Privacy, Supreme Court
In the past few months there has been a renewed debate about the principles surrounding the first amendment, and especially about what scholars call the religion clauses – "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Prior to the midterm elections in November, Christine O'Donnell asserted that separation of church and state […]
/ Church and State, Constitution, Current Events, History, Legal Issues, Supreme Court
By Jason Hines – 2010 has been an interesting year in the area of church-state relations, both at home and abroad. While we cannot cover every event of magnitude that took place this year in this forum, we will touch on some of the more important events have taken place over the last 365 days. American Events In March, the […]
/ Church and State, Civil Rights, Current Events, Employment Law, Human Life, In the News, Legal Issues, New, Supreme Court
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 rights of the minority. Although […]
/ Church and State, Civil Rights, Current Events, Discrimination, History, Supreme Court
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today praised Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens for his record of support for church-state separation and expressed the hope that his replacement will hold similar views.
/ Church and State, Constitution, In the News, Supreme Court
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.
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