President Trump last week discussed what he sees as his major religious liberty accomplishments and goals – from removing the Johnson Amendment to winning the War on Christmas.
In a House committee hearing, international religious freedom experts and advocates discussed the importance to U.S. foreign policy of promoting religious freedom around the world.
The Supreme Court ended a high-profile controversy over the constitutionality of the Trump Administration’s travel ban by dismissing the case after the ban expired.
The housing allowance tax exemption for clergy may face additional constitutional scrutiny after a federal judge in Wisconsin again held it to be a violation of church-state separation.
In large part, the guidance restates much settled law, though with a decided tilt toward concerns of free exercise, giving short shrift to the government’s duty to avoid “no establishment” concerns.