A President’s Prayer for “Our Republic, Our Religion and Our Civilization”
by Kelly Shackelford, Esq. President, CEO & Chief Counsel This Memorial Day, as we remember our fallen military heroes, isn’t it appropriate that we identify and recommit ourselves to the things for which they offered the ultimate sacrifice? I’m not sure any U.S. President described it more dramatically than […]
A READY DEFENSE: How to Protect Your Ministry or Faith-Based Business from Legal Attack and Ruin
How do you save your ministry, faith-based business, or church from attacks that are already happening? People of faith can equip themselves to withstand litigation by anti-religious opponents! Learn more from First Liberty Institute General Counsel Jeff Mateer . . . It was right there in the New York […]
Portraits of Courage: High School Salutatorian Brooks Hamby Continues to Stand for Students’ Rights to Religious Expression
Reconnecting with First Liberty Institute clients and people of faith whose steadfastness and past legal victories continue to touch America today . . . Last year at this time, Brooks Hamby was getting ready to graduate from high school. He was about to be chosen as the salutatorian of […]
UPDATE: Humanists Step Up Efforts to DEMOLISH Historic Maryland World War I Veterans Memorial
First Liberty Institute continues defense of 90-year-old veterans memorial on behalf of its client, The American Legion Until the American Humanist Association filed its lawsuit, the Bladensburg, Maryland World War I Veterans Memorial stood without objection for almost 90 years. This week, the American Humanist Association (AHA) filed a motion […]
First Liberty Institute Asks State Supreme Court: Protect Kountze Cheerleaders’ Rights
First Liberty Institute files its main legal brief to Court to protect Kountze, Texas, cheerleaders’ freedom to put Bible verses on banners. Fights back against efforts by the school district, Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the ACLU in trying to censor private speech. Current and future Kountze Independent School District […]
Eyewitness Account of Supreme Court Marriage Arguments
by Jeff Mateer, First Liberty Institute General Counsel Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court heard the oral arguments in a group of consolidated cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit involving whether the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution mandates a redefinition of marriage […]
