High-profile retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is being sued for religious discrimination after a Muslim employee claims she was fired for refusing to remove her religiously mandated head covering. In a news conference Monday, [20-year-old Hani] Khan – wearing a...
Citing budget constraints, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has proposed a new program that would fund the state's prison rehabilitation efforts through faith-based channels. Out4Life would partner the state's Department of Corrections with Chuck...
At this year's Religious Liberty Council luncheon at the CBF meeting in Tampa, former BJC Director James Dunn accepted the J.M. Dawson Religious Liberty Award. ABP's Bob Allen reports: James Dunn identified “soul freedom” as the driving force...
This weekend, as you have no doubt seen in news headlines across the country, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) signed into law a bill recognizing same-sex marriage. What you may not have seen are details of the final negotiating points that helped bring a majority in the...
A proposed Seventh-Day Adventist congregation in Laurel, Maryland, was denied a water permit change by the Prince George's County Council, thereby preventing them from moving forward in their quest to build a sanctuary and school on land already owned by the...
As I posted earlier in the week, the BJC and other religious liberty advocates are again pressing President Obama to repeal an Executive Order from President George W. Bush that allowed faith-based organizations to discriminate based on religion in hiring...
