Posts Tagged ‘religious freedom’
Father Pavone Rejects White House Compromise on Contraception
Religious Freedom, Priests for Life In a bold statement today, Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, denounced the Department of Health and Human Services contraception and abortion ruling as an abomination that must be immediately repealed or rescinded because it violates everything our country stands for. "Despite the [...]
TV Network Started by Cloistered Nun Sues Sebelius
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)--founded in 1981 by Mother M. Angelica, a cloistered Roman Catholic nun belonging to the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration--has filed suit against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other senior officials in the Obama administration arguing that a [...]
Obama and Ginsburg on America’s “Rather Old Constitution”
PAUL G. KENGOR, CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES I’ve gotten some very interesting emails regarding President Obama’s mandate commanding Roman Catholics (and many evangelical Protestants) to violate their consciences by providing mandatory contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing pharmaceuticals. The emailers noted that Obama’s [...]
Catholic Group to Sue Obama Administration over Obamcare
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PRIESTS FOR LIFE Staten Island, NY - Priests for Life, a New York based international pro-life organization of Catholic clergy and laity, today announced that it will be filing a lawsuit against the Obama Administration in an effort to seek injunctive relief from impending regulations that would require the organization to [...]
Help Restore Religious Freedom in America
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign The contraception mandate recently dictated by the Obama administration has met with a firestorm of opposition. It requires all employers, regardless of the tenets of their faith to purchase health insurance plans that cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortifacients. Aside from the attempts by [...]
Pelosis Stands With ‘Courageous’ Obama Against Religious Freedom
THOMAS CLOUD, CNSNEWS.COM House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) vowed today that she will join with the Obama administration in standing up against the Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic individuals to buy, and Catholic institutions to provide, health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and [...]
Obamacare’s Assault on Religious Freedom
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation It has not even been two years since Obamacare was enacted, and already the President’s health care law has taken another victim — the religious freedoms Americans hold dear, as reflected by the First Amendment. The Obama Administration recently reaffirmed a rule under Obamacare that requires many [...]
The Obama Mandate to Catholics: “To Hell With You?”
PAUL G. KENGOR, CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES America’s Catholic bishops are princes of diplomacy, highly educated, erudite, men of tact, propriety. They’re asked to shepherd the flock with a long historical timeframe—like, say, eternity. They tend not to have knee-jerk reactions to issues of the moment. And so, it’s not often when a [...]
Pastors Permitted Political Speech
JORDAN SEKULOW, ACLJ This past week I had the distinct privilege to attend the Minnesota Faith & Freedom Coalition Annual Pastors’ Briefing & Strategy Event where I spoke to over 120 pastors on their rights in the political process. The event was hosted by Pastor Brad Brandon, President of the Minnesota Faith & Freedom Project [...]
Victory: Jesus Statue Remains Because ACLJ Members Spoke Out
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice In a significant victory for religious liberty, the Flathead National Forest announced today that it would in fact renew the Knights of Columbus special use permit for the display of a statue of Jesus Christ. The statue, which was placed there as a World War II memorial by returning veterans, [...]
Bishop: Obama Administration Is Telling Catholics ‘To Hell With You’
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM Roman Catholic Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh says the Obama administration is telling American Catholics: “To Hell with you.” “The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, ‘To Hell with you!’” the bishop said in a column posted on his diocesan website. “There [...]
Elisha Williams: The Right of Judging in Matters of Faith
Called Unto Liberty, Founding Era Sermons, Elisha Williams That the sacred scriptures are the alone rule of faith and practice to a Christian, all Protestants are agreed in; and must therefore inviolably maintain, that every Christian has a right of judging for himself what he is to believe and practice in religion according to that rule: Which [...]
James Madison and Religious Freedom
AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER James Madison's defense of religious freedom began when he stood with his father outside a jail in the village of Orange and heard Baptists preach from their cell windows. Their crime? -Preaching without a license from the government. Madison wrote on the fate of more Baptist ministers to William [...]
ACLU Still Attacking the Ten Commandments
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT No school is too small to escape the anti-religious fervor of the American Civil Liberties Union, known as the ACLU. A battle has been going on about the 10 Commandments for about a year in rural Virginia, nearly 300 miles southwest of Washington, DC. The 10 Commandments had been peacefully hanging in [...]
Pastors Protest Bloomberg Booting 60 Churches Out of Schools
PETE WINN, CNSNEWS.COM New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera and NYC religious leaders organized a rally at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s State of the City speech on Thursday to protest the city’s decision to stop 60 churches--but not other groups--from meeting in public schools. New York City protest “Treating houses of worship [...]
The Ministerial Exception
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, CARL L. BANKSTON III A couple days ago, in the case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission et al., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that a teacher fired by a religious school could not sue her former employer for workplace discrimination because of the [...]
Victory for Religious Freedom at Supreme Court
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice In an unanimous decision, the Supreme Court today issued an important decision representing a tremendous victory for religious freedom. The high court concluded that courts should not intervene in the workings of churches. The Justices determined that the First Amendment protects the [...]
Take a Stand at “The Awakening”
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LIBERTY COUNSEL A war is raging against our shared values. Our faith and freedom are under attack. Silence in the face of this war is not an option. A spirit of revolution and renewal is awakening people all across America! Now there is something you can do about it. Join us for a powerful gathering called The Awakening [...]
2011 Victories and Challenges for Religious Liberty
Sarah Torre, Heritage Foundation As the year draws to a close, we take a look back at a few of the victories and challenges for religious liberty during the past 12 months and look forward to greater respect and protection for religious liberty in 2012. HHS “Preventive Service” Mandate In August, the Department of Health and Human [...]
Christmas Behind Bars for Pakistani Death Row Christians
PATRICK GOODENOUGH, CNSNEWS.COM As Christians celebrate their savior’s birth on Sunday, they are being urged to remember persecuted fellow believers unable to enjoy the day with their families, including death row prisoners Asia Bibi of Pakistan and Youcef Nadarkhani of Iran, both of whom will be spending their third Christmas behind [...]
Walter Reed Banned Family Members From Bringing Bibles
PENNY STARR, CNSNEWS.COM In a Sept. 14 policy memorandum, Col. Chuck Callahan, chief of staff of Walter Reed National Medical Center, banned family members from bringing Bibles and other "religious items" when visiting wounded military personnel at the facility. In a section entitled “Partners in Care Guidelines," describing what family [...]
Christianity May Be Eradicated In Iraq and Afghanistan
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM Despite long-term U.S. military occupations aimed at establishing representative governments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Christianity now faces the real threat of eradication in those countries because of severe and persistent persecution of Christians there, according to the chairman of the U.S. Commission on [...]
2011 Victories: Public Prayer is Not a Constitutional Crisis
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at a few of the hundreds of victories by the ACLJ in 2011. Just weeks before this year’s National Day of Prayer, a federal appeals court threw out a challenge by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) to the yearly [...]
Constitution Not Perfect
Called Unto Liberty, Joseph Smith Jr.: 1844, 19th Century Sermons It is one of the first principles of my life, and one that I have cultivated from my childhood, having been taught it by my father, to allow every one the liberty of conscience. I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my [...]
Obama Religious Freedom Initiative Called Unfeasible & Naive
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com The State Department on Monday launched three days of closed-door talks with representatives of international organizations and several dozen countries with the stated aim of promoting religious freedom and tolerance while ensuring that freedom of expression is not harmed in the process. U.S. [...]
Should a Candidate’s Faith Be an Issue? Dealing With the Romney Question
Dr. L. John Van Til, The Center for Vision and Values Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith remains a frequent news item as the 2012 election cycle grinds on. Not long ago, a Texas evangelist called Mormonism a cult and has since been sharply criticized for stating his views. On Halloween, CNN Today ran a segment that scrutinized Romney’s time as a [...]
Luther: The Wrong Answer for Heresy, the Right Path to Faith
Called Unto Liberty, 16th Century Sermons, Martin Luther Martin Luther stated: "If fire is the right cure for heresy, then the fagot-burners are the most learned doctors on earth; nor need we study any more; he that has brute force on his side may burn his adversary at the stake." By contrast he laid out his plan: "I will preach, speak, [...]
Testifying in Congress on Religious Freedom
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It’s what the ACLJ exists to do – defend your fundamental freedoms in the halls of Congress, the courtrooms of America, and around the world. And the most basic of these freedoms is the right to freely practice one’s faith. On Wednesday at 2:30p.m.ET, ACLJ Senior Counsel Colby May [...]
The Pulpit and the American Revolution: Isaac Backus
Leonard O. Goenaga Article Series: The Pulpit and the Patriots WEEK 6: The Pulpit and the American Revolution: Isaac Backus (1730-1788) Isaac Backus was born in Connecticut, in 1724, and was a conversion from the Great Awakening preaching of Eleazer Wheelock. After pastoring a church in Middleborough Massachusetts for about a decade, [...]
Standing Up for Egypt’s Coptic Christians
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Not long ago, I told you about the growing danger facing Coptic Christians in Egypt and reported about an attack earlier this month that claimed the lives of more than two dozen Christians in that country. As I reported earlier, not only did the government fail to defend the Coptic [...]
