AZ Governor Signs Expansion of Contraception Exemption

Written by Don Byrd
On Friday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into a law a bill allowing any employer self-identifying in its articles of incorporation as a “religiously affiliated employer” to refuse contraception coverage in its health care plans.

‘The six commandments’ is no solution

Written by Don Byrd
As I posted last week, a federal judge in Virginia is urging parties in a Ten Commandments dispute to think outside the box to arrive at a solution.

BJC, others urge end to religious profiling

WASHINGTON — The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and 34 groups April 17 urged a Senate panel probing racial profiling in America to include profiling of religious minorities in their study. The groups wrote leaders of a Senate Committee on the...

2012 Shurden Lectures explore American history

Lambert: America is both religious and secular, sometimes in tension MACON, GA — Strong defense of the separation of church and state and religious liberty is necessary today because of the false claims of so-called evangelical historians and their concerted...

Working from the wilderness

Greetings from the Baptist Joint Committee in exile! In exile? No, there has not been a coup. And, no, we have not left town for a foreign country. We are still on Capitol Hill, but we have recently left our familiar digs on the third floor of the Veterans of Foreign...