News Release For Immediate Release: 2.4.21 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Illinois School Officials Offer Accommodation to Student Refusing to Participate in Sexuality Program First Liberty Institute represents student threatened with disciplinary action for declining to participate in program that violates her religious beliefs Aurora, IL—After receiving a letter […]
News Release For Immediate Release: 2.2.21 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Illinois Student Faces School Disciplinary Hearing for Refusing to Participate in Sexuality Program First Liberty Institute says school officials are illegally forcing student to participate in program that violates her religious beliefs Aurora, IL—Today, First Liberty Institute sent […]
News Release For Immediate Release: 1.25.21 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Beloved Football Coach who was Fired for Brief, Private Prayer Makes Case Before Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Attorneys ask court to reinstate football coach who was fired after praying silently and alone for 15-30 seconds after football […]
As two days of national commemoration approach, Religious Freedom Day (Saturday) and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday), Americans would do well to consider the unbreakable link between the two and the lesson available in their chronological observance. The Latin phrase, post hoc ergo propter hoc, meaning “after this, therefore because of this,” is often derided as a logical fallacy. However, celebrating Dr. King’s life and legacy after honoring religious freedom’s contribution to American civil society may be the exception which proves the rule.
News Release For Immediate Release: 1.15.21 Contact: Lacey McNiel, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Department of Justice Slams Village of Airmont’s Legal Claims As “Inaccurate and Misleading” in Statement First Liberty Institute filed a federal lawsuit in 2018 alleging systematic discrimination by Village forcing Orthodox Jewish community underground Airmont, NY—Late yesterday, the […]
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) recently made headlines that may follow him for the rest of his political career. As Cleaver ended the traditional invocation before the commencement of the 117th Congress, he proffered a neologism that made satirists everywhere rejoice. In addition to ending his prayer with the ecclesiastical “amen,” the congressman added “awoman” in an apparent effort to appear gender-neutral.
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