Chaplains group investigating claims Army threatened chaplain over Facebook post on homosexuality
“We fight for the freedom that I can’t enjoy right now,” the anonymous 26-year-old woman said. “That’s not right.”
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Articles tagged Religious Freedom
‘I am still not getting what I want’: Gay couple suing church for refusing ‘wedding’
“The only way forward for us now is to make a challenge in the courts against the church,” the plaintiff said.
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Brother attorneys file lawsuit against HHS Mandate
July 25, 2013 (Acton Institute) – Michael and Shaun Willis, brothers and attorneys at Willis & Willis, PLC in Kalamazoo, Mich., have filed suit against the federal government’s mandate regarding the inclusion of artificial birth control, abortificients and abortion as part of employee health care. The brothers are both committed Christians and staunchly pro-life; one is Catholic, one Protestant. In addition to their law practice, they have a legal aid organization, doing pro bono work for the homeless in southeast Michigan. They also fund scholarships for children of military parents who’ve been killed or disabled in combat. This fund, the Corporal Christopher […]
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Sam Adams beer drops reference to God from its advertising
July 10, 2013 (Acton Institute) – Jonathan Merritt reports on a decision made by the parent company that produces Samuel Adams beer, Boston Beer Company, to redact “by their Creator” from an Independence Day ad featuring the Declaration of Independence. As Merritt writes, “We have arrived at a time in our history where some people are so offended by even the idea of God that they can’t bear to speak God’s name or quote someone else speaking God’s name. Worse yet, they have to delete God’s name from the Declaration of Independence to make a point.” My friend Will Hinton rightly identifies the company’s defense of its decision […]
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National evangelical Christian organization condemns final HHS mandate
"The final rule still leaves many religious employers unprotected," said Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE).
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Maybe we deserve Obama’s oppression over the HHS mandate
In other words, if Catholics fail to clean up their own healthcare houses and abide by Church teaching in every aspect, then we deserve to live under the oppression of Obama and his cronies.
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Obama admin. releases final version of HHS mandate: panned by critics as ‘same old’
“When it comes to religious liberty, the Department of Health and Human Services is acting like a kid who doesn’t want to eat his lima beans," said the Becket Fund today.
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Can America remain the land of religious liberty?
Spiritual freedom is essential to self-government and self-control.
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Pro-family leaders: Expect ‘persecution from the government’ over gay ‘marriage’
“The Court has declared open season on religious and social conservatives and their institution,” wrote Rod Dreher.
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Obama: I won’t force churches to hold gay ‘weddings,’ so there’s no religious liberty threat
“How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions,” the president said in a statement following the Supreme Court's rulings.
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