Showing posts with label Religious liberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religious liberty. Show all posts
Friday, August 30, 2024

5th Circuit Reopens Lipan-Apache's Suit Objecting to Park Modifications

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 In 2021, Texas voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that provides: This state or a political subdivision of this state m...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

5th Circuit Denies Further Relief to Native American Church Objecting to Park Modifications

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As previously reported , last year a Texas federal district court held that members of the Lipam-Apache Native American Church should be giv...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Iowa Enacts Religious Freedom Restoration Act

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Yesterday Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed SF 2095, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. ( Governor's press release .) ( Full text of...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Utah Legislature Passses Religious Freedom Bill

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The Utah legislature yesterday gave final passage to S.B. 150: Exercise of Religion Amendments  ( full text ). The bill is similar, though ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Catholic Bishops Issue Report on Religious Liberty In the United States

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Last week, the Committee on Religious Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued its Annual Report on The State of Religious ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

New Report on Attitudes Toward Religious Freedom Released

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Becket yesterday released  its 2023 Religious Freedom Index ( full text ). This is the fifth year the Report has been compiled. The Executi...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Today Is Religious Freedom Day

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Today is Religious Freedom Day, commemorating Virginia's adoption of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. P...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

HHS Adopts Rules Implementing Conscience Protections in Federal Law

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The Department of Health and Human Services has made available a 100-page Release ( full text ) titled Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

2023 Report on Religious Liberty in the States Released

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The Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy has released its report 2023   Religious Liberty in the States . In this, its second annual r...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

USCIRF Holds Hearing on Russian Violation of Religious Freedom Through Its Invasion of Ukraine

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Last Wednesday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom held a virtual hearing on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Implicati...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

West Virginia Legislature Passes Religious Freedom Act

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The West Virginia legislature yesterday gave final passage to the Equal Protection for Religion Act ( full text ). The bill bars state acti...
Monday, January 02, 2023

European Court Again Holds That Flying Spaghetti Monster Church Is Not a Protected "Religion"

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In two recent Chamber Judgments, the European Court of Human Rights reaffirmed its prior holding in a 2021 case that the Church of the Flyi...
Friday, December 09, 2022

4th Annual Religious Freedom Index Released

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Becket Fund for Religious Liberty this week released its fourth annual Religious Freedom Index.  The 99-page Report ( full text ) ( summary...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Senate Will Begin Voting on Respect for Marriage Act with Religious Liberty Amendments

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The U.S. Senate is expected to begin voting today on an amended version of H.R. 8404, the Respect for Marriage Act ( full text ). The House ...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Study Of State Statutory Religious Liberty Protections Released

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First Liberty Institute's Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy yesterday released  a 95-page report titled Religious Liberty In t...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Tribal Court Dismisses Trespass Charges Against Members Holding Religious Ceremony To Block Pipeline

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An Ojibwe Tribal Court has dismissed civil trespass charges against three members of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe who took part in an 8-day ...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

New Poll On American's Attitudes Toward Religious Freedom Released

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Becket yesterday released its third annual Religious Freedom Index  ( full text )   along with a one-page summary of the full 122-page repo...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

Religious Freedom Day Presidential Proclamaton

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President Trump issued a Proclamation ( full text ) this week declaring December 16 as Religious Freedom Day. The date, commemorated annuall...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Apache Leaders Sue To Prevent Forest Service Transfer of Religious Site

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Suit was filed this week in an Arizona federal district court on behalf of traditional Apache religious and cultural leaders seeking to prev...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Department of Labor Broadly Defines Religious Exemption From Anti-Discrimination Rules for Federal Contractors

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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs in a 159-page Release ( full text ) adopted amendment...