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Young Catholic Immigrant Files Charge Alleging Religious Discrimination

Houston health care company fires Alexia Palma for being unwilling to promote contraception
December 21, 2016 • Press Releases

Houston, Texas – Today, on behalf of its client, Alexia Palma, First Liberty Institute filed a legal complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging Palma’s former employers, Legacy Community Health (LCH), with religious discrimination. In the complaint, Palma, a young Catholic woman, says that her employers fired […]

Catholic Teacher Fired for Refusing to Teach Birth Control

PJ Media
December 21, 2016 • In the News

Texas health instructor who is also an immigrant from Guatemala has charged her former employer for discrimination after she lost her job for refusing to teach contraception, which violates her religious beliefs.

Catholic health educator in Texas fired for refusing to teach birth control

Chicago Tribune
December 21, 2016 • In the News

A former Texas health-center worker said she was fired and discriminated against after refusing to teach patients about contraceptive practices that, she says, violate her religious beliefs.

VA hospitals welcome Christ back to Christmas

Washington Examiner
December 20, 2016 • In the News

Christmas is making a comeback in hospitals run by the Veterans Administration. Even “Christ” and the Bible are welcome now.

The Bill of Rights Just Turned 225. Here’s What It Can Still Teach Us About Religious Freedom.

The Daily Signal
December 14, 2016 • In the News

On this day 225 years ago, the states ratified one of the most significant documents in our government. We are reminded today that religious freedom is no new issue in American history. Read full article »

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Could moving a giant cross or cutting off its arms resolve a 1st Amendment case?

MSN
December 8, 2016 •

The fate of a 40-foot-tall cross that dominates a busy Maryland intersection provoked impassioned debate in a federal courtroom Wednesday, at one point including a question about whether cutting off the arms of the cross might resolve the legal issues.

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