The senior counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty says that Indiana’s proposed “fix” to its Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is “unnecessary” and would serve as “a green light for driving religious people out of business.”
The greatly anticipated “fix” to the Indiana religious freedom law has been released by the Indiana legislative committee, and it is far worse than conservatives feared.
On Wednesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network anchor John Stossel weighed in on the controversies tied the same-sex marriage issue and how proponents of same-sex marriage have commandeered the debate. Transcript as follows: O’REILLY:
On Thursday, Indiana Republicans in the state legislature caved to pressure from the left regarding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which simply preserved the right of religious people to act according to their rights in their businesses, so long as those principles did not conflict with a “compelling state interest.”
Christians in Britain feel forced to hide their faith out of fear of being seen as “intolerant”, “superstitious” and even “accessories to child abuse”, the government Chief Whip has said. Michael Gove said that such is the hostility to religion
A Wolverhampton church held its Maundy Thursday service a day early so a drop-in session for prostitutes could go ahead. All Saints Church moved the traditional service marking the start of the Easter celebrations to Wednesday to ensure its outreach
On April 1, the Catholic bishops of Indiana posted a joint statement online in response to the heated debate generated by the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, affirming the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens and the need for its protection in law.
In a lengthy interview granted to the Italian Catholic online journal La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, Cardinal Raymond Burke rejects attempts to paint him as opposed to Pope Francis, insisting rather that he is a faithful servant of the Church who has only sought to uphold the truth.
Italian and Vatican authorities have signed an agreement on taxation entailing “full cooperation” and “transparency,” including financial activities operated by entities that have accounts at the Vatican Bank.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding both the Indiana and Arkansas religious liberty laws, presidential hopefuls have been weighing in either in defense or opposition to the laws.
Only days after a high-profile Democrat opponent announced a run to take his seat, Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk is coming out swinging. Not against his opponent, but against fellow Republican Mike Pence for signing Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The head coach of an Indiana high school girl’s golf team has been suspended after apparently threatening to burn down a Christian-owned pizzeria.
In a spectacular display of bad journalistic form, Ed Schultz cut the microphone of Heritage Foundation Fellow Ryan Anderson in the midst of a heated debate on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act during The Ed Show on Tuesday night.
The president and CEO of famed sports equipment company NIKE, Inc., Mark Parker, is jumping on board the anti-Indiana bandwagon with a public statement claiming that Indiana’s religious freedom law is “discriminatory.”
Tuesday at a press conference Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN) said while the intent of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was never to discriminate, he is working with the Indiana legislature to fix the perception that it allows for a business
As opponents of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) continue to cry foul–inciting opposition toward Governor Mike Pence (R) and boycotts of the state of Indiana–they prove their goal is not equal rights for all but special rights for some.
Members of Congress are weighing in with the Secretary of the Navy in the case of Chaplain Wes Modder, who is being forced out of the Navy after complaints by a gay officer who hid his sexual orientation.
After Dr. Ben Carson backed Indiana’s religious freedom law for which the institutional left is targeting Gov. Mike Pence, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush spoke up to defend it too.
Gay activists and their leftist allies told us decades ago that same-sex marriage wasn’t on the agenda. All homosexuals wanted was the benefits of marriage, but not the title. That, of course, was a lie.
The Tuesday print edition of the Indianapolis Star will devote its entire front page to Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)–not a news article but an editorial attacking the measure.
On Monday’s broadcast of “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann responded to the news of Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Act, which is alleged to allow businesses to refuse to service to homosexuals according to some voices on the left. According
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy took to Twitter Monday morning to announce he will be signing an executive order barring state-funded travel to Indiana in the wake of Gov. Mike Pence signing a Religious Freedom law.
Ross Douthat at the New York Times illustrates the slippery slope beneath the left’s revulsion for religious freedom laws, like the one currently generating media outrage in Indiana.
A Chinese couple has been sentenced to spend years in prison for wearing overtly Islamic fashions in the western Chinese city of Xinjiang. Chinese authorities sentenced the man to six years for sporting a beard and the woman to two years for wearing a burqa.
Blogger Washiqur Rahman, 27, was hacked to death in Bangladesh, the second similar attack on independent writers in the nation. An American atheist blogger was also hacked to death in Dhaka, the capital of the country.
