Philly, Catholics and Foster Kids
Religious Liberty Lives at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court gets it right in Little Sisters case
Supreme Court’s odd reluctance to truly stand up for religious freedom
Minnesota’s ‘Essential’ Churches
The First Amendment Faithful
ObamaCare vs. Nuns, Round II
Why teachers of religion are not entitled to anti-discrimination protections
Wall Street Journal: The Secular Busybodies Lose Again
Editorial: Let chaplains attend to the condemned
An Unnecessary Culture War
Suffer the Little Children
Editorial: Trump’s right — churches should be eligible for disaster aid
Editorial: Don’t bar disaster aid to churches
God’s ACLU’ Seeks Freedom for the Faithful
A win for religious liberty — and common sense
Making room for Jews
Why should the government say whether churches can preach politics from the pulpit?
Obama’s Hobby
Join the discussion: Is there a war on religion?
Deseret News, May 29, 2014
“When the government said to them, you’re going to have to fund contraception, sterilization, in violation of your deeply held religious convictions, the monks at Belmont Abbey College knew that they just couldn’t do that,” attorney Hannah Smith from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty told NPR. “This is not just about health care. This is really about government coercion of religious individuals and institutions.”
For-profit doesn’t mean no conscience: Column
USA Today, March 19, 2014
American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.
Businesses and the right to pursue moral values
Colorado Springs Gazette, February 26, 2014
The Supreme Court should reject this false argument. For-profit companies do have the freedom to pursue moral values and express their faith as a part of conducting business. Values cannot be separated.
Challenge to Affordable Care Act contraceptive mandate could save nation from dangerous path: Peter Kirsanow
Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 18, 2014
Hobby Lobby, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, says that federal civil rights laws prohibit the government from bringing that sort of pressure to bear on Hobby Lobby to force it to give up its conscientious objection.
STRANGE: Defending faith from federal bullies
Washington Times, February 14, 2014
To make sure that liberty isn’t crushed, the lawyers at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty stepped in. As Attorney General of Alabama, I am proud to see our state, along with 20 other states, stand shoulder to shoulder with the Becket Fund in opposing the Department of Health and Human Services mandate.
Religious liberty should trump HHS mandate: Column
USA Today, February 10, 2014
The Green family, through the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, will file its brief with the Supreme Court Monday seeking relief from paying a daily fine of potentially more than $1.3 million for refusing to violate their biblically based views on life.
ObamaCare’s contraception fight against the Little Sisters of the Poor
Court slaps down ObamaCare religious mandate
New York Post – November 1, 2013
What Obamacare means to Little Sisters of the Poor
Washington Times, October 10, 2013
So now these humble sisters have been forced to enter into a legal battle with the administration to try to preserve their religious freedom and continue to serve the elderly poor without government intrusion. The Becket Fund
for Religious Liberty has brought suit on their behalf in federal district court in Denver.
Editorial: Hobby Lobby owner gives employees reason to celebrate
The Oklahoman, April 17, 2013
The Oklahoma City retailer with a 23,000-person workforce has raised its minimum wage for full-timers for the fifth straight year. The news comes just ahead of oral arguments in Hobby Lobby’s legal fight over Obamacare’s overreach into business practices.
Editorial: The first church of FEMA
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Column: Civil unions or a nunnery? Please
Blackwell: No compromise in new contraception mandate
Editorial: Religious freedom and contraception
Stringing Out Jews
New York Post, February 11, 2013 Continue reading “Stringing Out Jews”
Wall Street Journal: A Lincoln Chafee Christmas
WSJ columnist Bill McGurn highlights the Becket Fund’s vital work defending America’s religious diversity and religious expression on the public square.
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McGurn: A Lincoln Chafee Christmas
Column: Christian companies can’t bow to sinful mandate
Obama’s grand miscalculation with Catholics
Fox News, May 22, 2012. Link to article