Religious Liberties

Religious Liberty

In this section you will find articles addressing the important issue of religious liberty. Although freedom of religion has historically been called our “First Freedom” given its prominence in both our nation’s founding as well as its formal articulation in the first clause of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, it has increasingly come under attack by judges and secular interests that seek to deprive it of this status. On issue after issue – whether it involves education, employment, the public square, parenting, rights of conscience, public accommodations or non-discrimination laws – religious freedom is being eroded before our eyes.

Pick of the Week

CitizenLink, Others Defend National Day of Prayer

CitizenLink, an affiliate of Focus on the Family, and more than two dozen pro-family groups have signed onto a "friend-of-the-court" brief filed in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the National Day of Prayer. read more

Recent News

Florist Sues Washington AG Over Religious Freedom Violations

A Washington florist facing a lawsuit for declining to contribute her talents for a same-sex wedding ceremony filed a countersuit against state Attorney General Bob Ferguson Tuesday.

Barronelle Stutzman owns Arlene’s Flowers in Richland. For years, she has served and employed several people who identify as homosexual. For nine years, she designed floral arrangements for customer Robert Ingersoll, who is openly gay. All was well — until he asked her to create an arrangement for his wedding.

“Everyone knows that plenty of florists are willing to assist in same-sex ceremonies, so the state has no reason to force Barronelle to violate her deeply held beliefs,” said Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Legal Counsel Dale Schowengerdt. “In America, the government is supposed to protect freedom, not use its intolerance for certain viewpoints to intimidate citizens into acting contrary to their faith convictions.”

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Featured Blog

Secular Crusader Advises Pentagon: Christians are ‘Monsters.’

Actually, Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), uses some form of the word “monster” to describe Christians 12 times in this diatribe. Now to be fair, Weinstein is only talking about “fundamentalist Christian monsters,”  whoever those are. But since he mentions Focus on the Family’s founder, Dr. James Dobson, [...]

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