Broad AZ Conscience Law Seeks to Protect Professional Licenses

The Arizona legislature sent a bill to Governor Jan Brewer that would prohibit the government from suspending a professional license for acts of religious exercise. SB 1288 takes what we seen in controversies like those surrounding pharmacy regulations to a new level,...

More Reaction to Supreme Court’s Winn Ruling

Reviews are still coming in questioning the Supreme Court's ruling earlier this week in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn. An LATimes editorial calls the decision a "bad precedent": The decision might seem technical, but it will make...

Lawsuit Filed Over Rhode Island School’s Religious Banner

The ACLU has filed suit over the controversial religious banner hanging in Rhode Island's Cranston High School West. The banner has been in the school auditorium since 1963. Recent efforts to remove it on church-state grounds were met with a fierce public...

University President Urges Fellow Mormons: Join the ACLU!

Reader LD sends along this story of University of Utah President Michael Young, who – in a recent address to the LDS Society at BYU – urged his fellow Mormons to champion civil and religious liberties for all, arguing that members of the faith should be...