Morning Bell: The Calls for Liberty Have Not Been Silenced
Call it what you want — a circus, a sideshow, or just plain old political rhetoric — but for the past week America has watched… Read More
Morning Bell: Press Conference Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
Yesterday, President Barack Obama ended his months-long press conference drought and faced the White House press corps. Unfortunately for the American people, questions on some of… Read More
Disaster Relief Shows Why Government Should Protect Good Samaritans
The devastating tornadoes that ripped through the South and Midwest last week left broken homes and shattered lives in their wake. While the wind and… Read More
Setting Biden Straight on Obamacare’s Anti-Conscience Mandate
Vice President Biden didn’t get the story quite straight. As the Obama Administration reels from the backlash for Obamacare’s anti-conscience mandate that forces religious employers… Read More
Video: Conscience Lost in Vast Verbal Oceania of Obamacare
Efforts to repel the Obama Administration’s attack on liberty of conscience suffered a setback today on the floor of the U.S. Senate, but in the… Read More
Senate Fails to Stop Obamacare from Fining the Good Samaritan
Today the U.S. Senate failed to save religious liberty from Obamacare’s collision course with freedom. The Senate blocked, by a vote of 51-48, a bipartisan… Read More
Rep. Sandy Adams Takes on NLRB, Seeks to Safeguard Employees’ Privacy
U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) is taking aim at a possible rule from the National Labor Relations Board that she believes infringes on the constitutional… Read More
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Senate to Vote Thursday on Blunt’s Conscience Protection Amendment
The U.S. Senate will consider legislation on Thursday that would prevent the Department of Health and Human Services from forcing religious employers and insurers from… Read More
Obamacare Mandate: Fighting for Our First Freedom All Over Again
Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a full committee hearing to investigate the Obama administration’s unprecedented overreach through the latest Obamacare mandate’s assault on religious… Read More
Women Speak Out: Obamacare Mandate Tramples on Religious Liberty
Anyone who hasn’t heard the women’s voices speaking out against the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate over the past few weeks hasn’t been listening very well. Yesterday,… Read More
Obamacare: Pay No Attention to Mandate Behind Curtain of Spin
In yet another slight to rule of law, the Obama Administration has asked a federal court to put a press conference pronouncement above official regulation…. Read More
Ike-Like Resolve Needed to Ensure Indonesian Religious Liberty
Indonesians are proud of the respect for pluralism and tolerance embedded in their constitution. Indeed, Indonesia is largely tolerant of religious differences. Unfortunately, it is… Read More
Opposition to Anti-Conscience Mandate Continues
In Obamacare’s collision course with Americans’ freedom, one of the first casualties is religious liberty. Despite the Administration’s obfuscating press comments, the finalized preventive services… Read More
Obama Administration Refuses Again to Protect Religious Liberty
President Obama talked the talk but then blatantly refused to walk the walk on the freedom of religious institutions from the Obamacare statute’s mandate for… Read More
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VIDEO: Sen. Roy Blunt Vows to Fight Obamacare’s Anti-Conscience Mandate
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) introduced legislation to protect religious organizations from Obamacare’s overreach last summer. Now, as President Obama presses forward with his anti-conscience mandate,… Read More
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Rep. Price: Obama’s Contraception ‘Accommodation’ is ‘All Rhetoric’
The chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee blasted the president’s self-styled “accommodation” of religious employers required under the Obamacare law to provide contraceptive services… Read More
President Obama’s Unworkable Non-Solution on Conscience
Today, President Obama unsuccessfully attempted to extricate himself from a political crisis of his own making. The issue is Obamacare’s requirement that health insurers and… Read More
Scribecast: RedState’s Erick Erickson on the State of Conservatism
Seven years ago Erick Erickson took the reins at RedState to transform the conservative blog into one of the most influential sources of news on… Read More
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Online Chat on Obamacare and Religious Freedom
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced it will not broaden the religious exemption in an Obamacare regulation that requires many religious employers… Read More
Obama Gets Hit with Another Religious Freedom Lawsuit
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has already filed two lawsuits challenging the Obamacare regulation that requires many religious employers to provide health insurance coverage… Read More
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What They’re Saying: Obamacare’s Contraception Mandate Tramples Religious Liberty
On January 20, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius finalized regulations for preventive services under Obamacare that require religious institutions beyond churches… Read More
Morning Bell: Obamacare Awakens a Sleeping Giant
It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause… Read More
Many Faiths Unite in Opposition to Obama Attack on Religious Liberty
The Obama Administration’s mandate under the Obamacare statute that many religious employers provide health care coverage for contraception, abortifacients, and human sterilization tramples upon their… Read More
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Morning Bell: Obamacare’s Latest Victim Is Religious Freedom
It has not even been two years since Obamacare was enacted, and already the President’s health care law has taken another victim — the religious… Read More
Obamacare’s Contraception Mandate Tramples on Religious Liberty
The Obama Administration’s mandate under the Obamacare statute that many religious employers provide health care coverage for contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization tramples upon their free… Read More
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Scribecast: Rep. Frank Wolf Discusses Political and Religious Rights
With economic issues dominating the domestic political agenda and much of our foreign policy focused on combating terrorism, systematic violations of political and religious rights… Read More
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Supreme Court Decision in Hosanna-Tabor a Major Win for Religious Freedom
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that resoundingly affirms the freedom of religious groups to choose their own ministers. Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran… Read More
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2011 Victories and Challenges for Religious Liberty
As the year draws to a close, we take a look back at a few of the victories and challenges for religious liberty during the… Read More
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Morning Bell: Will the President Protect Religious Rights?
Sometimes the White House gets the easy questions wrong. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked about a controversial mandate stemming from… Read More
Obamacare Threatens Life and Liberty
The Supreme Court’s announcement on Monday that it will consider the constitutionality of some of Obamacare’s provisions, including the individual mandate, has reignited discussion of… Read More
