A decorated Army chaplain is facing what his attorneys are calling a “career-ending punishment” after he explained to a soldier that he could not conduct a marriage retreat that included same-sex couples because of his religious beliefs. A military investigation at Fort Bragg in North Carolina determined that Chaplain Scott […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced on Friday that he will vote against CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s nomination to become secretary of state because of Pompeo’s beliefs on marriage and sexuality — beliefs consistent with Pompeo’s Christian faith. Conservative leaders are now denouncing Booker’s vote as a violation […]
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….” So begins the First Amendment to our Constitution. Those words have been turned into a “law” that allows courts to demand an impenetrable wall of separation between religion and government. A recent case shows […]
First Liberty Institute has sent a letter to the U.S. Army urging it to reverse an investigator’s decision that Army Chaplain Scott Squires be disciplined for following both Army regulations and the religious tenets of his endorsing denomination. The original complaint against Chaplain Squires began when he explained to a […]
Last week, our law firm, First Liberty Institute, filed a lawsuit on behalf U.S. Air Force veteran Oscar Rodriguez. He was assaulted and forcibly removed from a fellow airman’s retirement ceremony by Air Force officials because his flag-folding speech contained the word “God.” In response, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, […]
Michael Berry of the First Liberty Institute speaks to The Christian Institute after the US Air Force cleared Colonel Leland Bohannon of any wrongdoing.
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