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5 steps President Trump can take to advance religious freedom

The Hill
November 21, 2016 • In the News

During his campaign, candidate Donald Trump spoke out against the disturbing growth of government hostility to religion. . Read full article »

The First Freedom, If You Can Keep It

Weekly Standard
November 16, 2016 • In the News

Religious freedom—scholarly and practical advocates say, in a nod to the founders—is not just the first freedom in the Bill of Rights but “the soul” of the American experiment.

National organization takes up case of Christian school

Livingston Daily
November 14, 2016 • In the News

First Liberty Institute — a Texas legal organization the works exclusively on religious freedom cases — has taken on Livingston Christian Schools’ federal lawsuit against Genoa Township after a U.S. District Court judge threw the case out earlier this year.

High School Football Coaches to Court: If We Have the Right to Kneel to Protest InJustice, Coach Kennedy Has the Right to Kneel in Prayer

NFL players and high school football coaches file briefs in support of Coach Kennedy at the Ninth Circuit
November 8, 2016 • Press Releases

Tacoma, Wash. – Two high-profile amicus briefs were filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals on Monday evening on behalf of Coach Joe Kennedy, a high school football coach who was fired for taking a knee at the fifty-yard line and offering a brief, private prayer after high school football […]

Soldiers in arms

Defending Conscience Rights at Hacksaw Ridge in the HHS Cases

First Things
November 4, 2016 • In the News

In vivid detail, the movie depicts the heroism of Private Desmond Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist who was willing to serve in the infantry but unwilling to kill another human being or even carry a weapon—a principled but unpopular stance in the United States Army of World War II. Read full article »

Obama’s defense bill veto an attack on religious liberty

Washington Examiner
November 1, 2016 • In the News

President Obama’s reported plan to veto the defense spending legislation constitutes a “deeply disturbing” attack on religious liberty, according to a top Republican.

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