Georgia Demands Pastor Surrender Sermons, Notes, and More!
Dr. Eric Walsh was ordered to hand over sermons to the State of Georgia in compliance with their demands, he announced Wednesday at a press conference alongside First Liberty Institute. As part of an ongoing lawsuit Walsh filed against the state earlier this year, the Georgia state government issued a Request […]
One Supreme Court Justice: How Important to Your Life?
During this election cycle, there has been plenty of discussion about the U.S. Supreme Court. Both Republicans and Democrats have said that the nomination of justices to the Court is the most important domestic decision the next president will make. Leaders in both parties have said confirmation of those nominees […]
Victory for Courtroom Prayer is Applauded by Hundreds of Activists
No opening of court sessions with prayer. No volunteer chaplains to comfort the grieving when a county coroner arrives. That’s what a secular legal organization demanded of a county more than 1,000 miles away. But one brave local judge, Wayne Mack of Montgomery County, Texas, and a team of attorneys […]
High School Promptly and Appropriately Addresses Club Sponsor’s Logo
Jesus is allowed at Lewisville Independent School District. For a while at the beginning of this school year, it didn’t seem that way. The Texas high school censored the word “Jesus” out of the business logo of a student club sponsor. “The government often thinks it can, or should, censor […]
First Liberty Files Supreme Court Brief Defending Religious Freedom, Free Speech of Faith-Based Schools
The future of religious schools in America could hinge on the outcome of one case currently before the United States Supreme Court — Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. First Liberty filed a brief on Tuesday, September 27 on behalf of religious educational institutions and educators, asking the Court to […]
Jewish Ceremony Banned—Until First Liberty Steps In
A few days before the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah, observed this year on October 2, an extremist special interest group filed a federal lawsuit to stop a small Jewish synagogue in California from partaking in a traditional ceremony to be carried out shortly thereafter. The kaporos (“atonement”) ceremony […]
