Minnesota stops enforcing law excluding religious colleges from free enrollment program
Fighting for the children
Supreme Court will hear two obscure but important religious liberty cases
Cities continue crusade against Catholic adoptions
Are death row inmates entitled to religious liberty?
Activist judge blocks constitutional protections for pro-life doctors
Federal court strikes back against Obama mandate forcing doctors to perform sex reassignment surgeries
Federal judge holds University of Iowa officials personally liable for discriminating against evangelical student group
A win for religious liberty: Federal court orders public school must stop discriminating against Mexican Catholics
The Supreme Court must save religious foster care agencies from LGBT activist assault
Here’s how the ACLU manufactured the perfect case to attack religious liberty
The Supreme Court should stand up for man fired by Walgreens for honoring Sabbath
Will the Supreme Court let Montana get away with anti-religious discrimination?
Two small victories for religious liberty that you didn’t hear about
Democrats force Little Sisters of the Poor into court again
DC Circuit rightly rules prayer in Congress is Constitutional
Thanks to Michigan AG, Catholic adoption agencies may shutter
Five potential victories for religious liberty in 2019
Christian group kicked off campus for requiring its leaders to be Christian
ACLU discriminates against religious adoption groups while claiming to protect civil liberties
There’s another important free-speech case for pregnancy help centers in San Francisco
Christian college wins battle with HHS over birth control mandate
California protects everything except free speech
The University of Iowa kicks Christian group off campus for its religious beliefs
Federal judge issues disturbing ruling in favor of First Amendment discrimination
In Pensacola, we’re fighting to keep our memorial cross
After a decade of opposition, a Florida synagogue longs for a place to call home
When we protect religious freedom for one faith, it is protected for all
Dozens of groups ask Supreme Court to hear birth control case
Protecting America’s first freedom
April 5, 2015, Washington Examiner
RFRA has lived up to this promise. As our friends at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty like to say, RFRA protects everyone from “A to Z—Anglican to Zoroastrian.” For every Presbyterian soup kitchen RFRA has protected, there is an equally-protected mosque in rural Tennessee. For every Midwest homeless shelter, there is a Florida synagogue. For every Sikh schoolchild, there is a Muslim, Jewish or Native American inmate who has been able to live out his faith in peace.
Little Sisters case shows how Obama administration is not respecting religious freedom
Washington Examiner, February 12, 2014
As Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the Becket Fund, said: “But why on earth would the government be fighting the Little Sisters all the way to the Supreme Court if it did not think its own form had any effect?”
Citizens United is ‘very important’ to Hobby Lobby’s attempt to take down HHS mandate
Washington Examiner, February 6, 2014
Arriaga said that Citizens United is “very important” to Hobby Lobby’s argument. “But we’re not only resting on Citizens United,” she said
Two-thirds of briefs filed with Supreme Court in Hobby Lobby case support the company
Washington Examiner, January 29, 2014
“The broad support shows that Americans of many faiths and backgrounds want to see religious freedom protected,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel at the Becket Fund. “Religious freedom is important to Democrats and Republicans, to Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others.”
Court: Obama must rewrite contraception mandate to accommodate religious liberty
Little Sisters of the Poor sue over Obamacare fines, contraception requirement
Washington Examiner, September 24, 2013
“The Sisters should obviously be exempted as ‘religious employers,’ but the government has refused to expand its definition,” Becket Fund senior counsel Mark Rienzi said.
Carney: Re-elected, Obama takes aim at religious liberty
Big Government as the rival and enemy of religion
Washington Examiner, June 10, 2012. Link to article