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First Liberty Institute demands Navy restore highly decorated chaplain as public outcry grows Click here to watch Chaplain Wes Modder and his wife Beth share about their painful and discriminatory experience   The unthinkable has happened yet again. Another decorated military hero’s career has been threatened by our nation’s military […]

Violation of First Liberty Institute client Chaplain Joe Lawhorn’s religious liberty rights point to greater issue of Army religious freedom policies     In his third letter of inquiry regarding the Army’s punishment of Chaplain (Captain) Joseph “Joe” Lawhorn, Representative Doug Collins (R-GA) is now taking his unaddressed questions and […]

First Liberty Institute attorneys warn: “If this synagogue loses, we all lose.” First Liberty Institute General Counsel Jeff Mateer, Senior Counsel Justin Butterfield and Congregation Toras Chaim’s Rabbi Yaakov Rich at a press conference on March 3, 2015. On Monday, March 2, 2015, the City of Dallas, Texas—the nation’s ninth […]

        First Liberty Institute squares off against legal groups trying to shut down prayer, and remove religious imagery and other expressions of faith across the nation On the night of February 17, the council chamber of a small American city was packed to standing-room-only capacity. The crowd was […]

First Liberty Institute President & CEO, Kelly Shackelford First Liberty Institute President Kelly Shackelford’s new e-book now available Editor’s note: Kelly Shackelford explains why America is at a tipping point in the battle for religious freedom, and why he believes people of faith hold the key to victory. Excerpted from his […]

What First Liberty Institute wants you and every business person (employees and employers) to know about faith in the workplace Amidst growing hostility toward religion, more questions than ever before have arisen concerning what kind of religious expression is allowed in the workplace—and to what extent. More and more Americans—just […]