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Wohlberg: Churches Should Not Surrender Right to Assemble

Posted on September 11, 2020September 13, 2020 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

White Horse Media director Steve Wohlberg spoke this past weekend about the ramifications churches may face when they surrender their right to choose to meet or not during the pandemic. 

Should churches “stay-at-home”? Martin Luther offers guidance

Posted on March 29, 2020March 30, 2020 by Michael Peabody

Although Luther wrote it nearly 500 years ago, his advice on how to handle an epidemic is still valid. Trust God and take precautions. 

Bill Would Ban Gov’t Discrimination Based on Religious Views of Marriage

Posted on June 18, 2015 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Bills have been introduced in both houses of the U.S. Congress that would prohibit the Federal government from discriminating against individuals, associations, and businesses that act in accordance with their religious beliefs about marriage.

“The Price of Citizenship”? New Mexico Supreme Court rules Christian must photograph same-sex ceremony

Posted on August 23, 2013August 27, 2013 by Michael Peabody

Yesterday, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment does not protect a photographer’s decision not to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony even if it would violate the photographer’s deeply held religious beliefs.

States Rights and the Religion Clauses: Examining the North Carolina Resolution

Posted on April 5, 2013April 5, 2013 by Michael Peabody

This week, two members of the North Carolina House of Representatives submitted a resolution which would declare that “the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.” In other words, the legislation declared that that the state could make its own laws about religion and the federal government would not be able to stop them. Although the resolution is not likely to be approved, it does deserve some serious examination as it reflects a common argument arising in the religious right that the Establishment Clause does not apply to the states.

Mercer University: Religious Liberty in the Constitution

Posted on October 28, 2011 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Gary Simson, Dean of Mercer’s Walter F. George School of Law, speaks on religious liberty as established in the constitution and what it means to us. He discusses how the United States was designed to be a country that took religion very seriously but respected the decisions of individuals as to which religion to practice…

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

Posted on April 28, 2010May 6, 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…

Emotion, misunderstanding mark religion-in-school cases (The Tennessean)

Posted on March 4, 2009March 4, 2009 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Most people have a mistaken understanding of what the First Amendment means, says Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center.

“People tend to carry around two failed models in their head,” Haynes said. “Either we keep religion entirely out of public schools or we keep on doing what we used to do in the good old days and promote religion in school.”

Because of those failed models, schools end up making poor decisions when it comes to religion.

VIDEO: Michael Newdow in Panel at Boston College on Religious Freedom and the Pledge of Allegiance

Posted on June 28, 2008 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

This is particularly relevant this election year. From http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/newdow/  October 18, 2006 – Boston College – Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life Every day millions of schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the American flag and “the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Michael Newdow…

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