Written by Don Byrd Today is the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a law that strengthened protections for a person’s religious exercise when substantially burdened by government action. The law passed thanks to an...
Written by Don Byrd The long legal odyssey of fired high school science teacher John Freshwater may finally be at a close following yesterday’s ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court upholding his dismissal for insubordination. Freshwater refused the order of school...
Religion News Service / By Bob Smietana Click here to read the article on the RNS website (RNS) A Tennessee pastor’s dangerous spiritual practices made him a star of a reality TV series. Now they may make him a religious liberty crusader. Officials from the Tennessee...
Baptist Joint Committee brief filed in Supreme Court case urges limit on government involvement in religion November 6, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Cherilyn Crowe | Phone: 202-544-4226 x305 | Cell: 202-603-1663 | ccrowe@BJConline.org WASHINGTON – Official...
The Associated Baptist Press / By Bob Allen A divided U.S. Supreme Court debated Nov. 6 whether explicitly Christian prayers at a New York town board’s meetings violate the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. “What we heard this morning in the...
