By M. Martin, Oregon made national headlines this week for a new bill allowing students to take a mental health day off from school. It was picked up by NBC News, the Today show, CNN, NPR and USA Today.  Before this bill, students were only allowed to take a sick […]

Brad Dacus Founder and President, Pacific Justice Institute One of the most heart-wrenching cases we’ve taken on in the last few years involves the forced removal of a toddler from life support. We’ve just had an important new development in that case, and I wanted to make sure you had […]

Liberty Counsel Press Release, Liberty Counsel has asked a federal district court to forgo a trial and order the city of Boston to allow its resident Hal Shurtleff and his Christian civic organization, Camp Constitution, to fly the Christian flag on a city flagpole that Boston has opened to hundreds […]

By Pacific Justice Institute, California Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties) withdrew SB 360, a bill that would have required clergy to report certain confessions to the government. The Bill would have further restricted ministers by excluding clergy penitential communications from long established legal protections including “spiritual […]

Wall Street Journal Editorial, Fresh off upholding the Bladensburg Cross, the Supreme Court has taken another case with even more at stake for religious liberty. On Friday the Justices agreed to hear a challenge that involves Montana’s Blaine Amendment, a constitutional provision that bars tax-credit scholarships from going to religious […]

Catholic League for Religious and civil rights Catholic League president Bill Donohue wrote the following letter to Assemblyman Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer. He is chairman of the committee that is in charge of the bill. The bill would penalize priests who fail to disclose the sexual abuse of a minor told […]

By Alliance for Defending Freedom, The U.S. Supreme Court will once again hold Barronelle Stutzman’s fate in its hands. In February 2017, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the government can force this 74-year-old floral artist and grandmother to create floral art celebrating events that conflict with her faith. […]

By Faith News Note, The Oregon Supreme Court has determined that a pastor convicted of sexually abusing a girl in his church should be given a new trial because witnesses referred to his accuser as a “victim.” Mike Sperou, a 68-year-old Happy Valley pastor, was convicted in 2015 of first-degree […]

Rep. Chris Smith Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Global Human Rights and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, welcomed today’s release of the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report. “The State Department’s annual report on religious freedom is critical for the […]

By Faith News Note, The Clackamas United Church of Christ has drawn wide support across social media for progressive signs posted outside its place of worship in Milwaukee, Ore. Rev. Adam Ericksen said he began posting pro-LGBTQ and other progressive messages on the sign outside the church to build up […]