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By Christopher Corbett On Constitution Day, September 17, First Liberty Institute’s Chelsey Youman (pictured above) debated the ACLU’s Rebecca Robertson at the University of North Texas. What will America look like now that the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, has imposed same-sex marriage on the entire country? Specifically, […]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit shook things up last Thursday, proving that the battle against the HHS Abortion Pill Mandate is far from over. Unlike other federal appellate courts, the Eighth Circuit rejected the government’s arguments and held that faith-based non-profit ministries cannot be forced […]

By Kelly Shackelford First appeared as an opinion column in the Washington Times. Values Voter Summit, one of the marquee annual events of the conservative movement, starts Friday at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in the District of Columbia. The top issue on the agenda, highlighted in the recent Republican presidential […]

Liberty Institute Senior Counsel and Director of Military Affairs Mike Berry takes a tour of the history of religious expression in the armed forces Since the United States’ founding, American civil and military leadership have taken deliberate steps to meet the religious needs of the military and to prevent it from becoming […]

Men and women at a San Antonio senior citizen center set bold examples this summer for any Americans who value religious liberty. When the Northeast San Antonio Multi-Service Senior Center told members that they couldn’t discuss religion or pray, they refused to give up their faith or their freedom. With […]

By Jeff Mateer and Christopher Corbett The day after Kim Davis* went to jail, U.S. Navy Chaplain Wes Modder was set free from religious discrimination. And together, both examples of religious hostility offer an instructive lesson for people of faith whose religious freedom is under growing attack. Millions of Americans […]