Contents tagged with religious liberty
Filed in: ACLJ | by Jay Sekulow | 7:00 AM Apr. 7, 2012
A Season of Hope
As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ - a season of life - a season of hope - I want to thank all of you for your prayers and support for our work in this country and around the globe. At a time when there is so much turmoil and growing challenges to our faith and freedom, I want to assure you that our commitment to defending faith and freedom has never been stronger. And, with your assistance, we will continue to make a tremendous difference - protecting the rights given to us by Go Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by David French | 10:11 AM Mar. 16, 2012
Defending Business Owners From the Mandate
Americans don’t shed their constitutional rights when they open a for-profit business. While much of the attention surrounding the HHS mandates has focused on religious institutions, the Obama mandates also improperly restrict the liberties of private businesses. Today my colleagues at the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed the first lawsuit by a private business owner challenging Obama’s mandate. The suit, brought by Frank R. O’Brien and O’Brien Industrial Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 3:37 PM Mar. 15, 2012
Taking HHS to Federal Court in Defense of Religious Liberty
It is a tremendously important lawsuit. We filed suit today in federal court in St. Louis, Missouri on behalf of a St. Louis business owner and his company. Our argument is clear: the HHS mandate, which requires employers to purchase health insurance for their employees that includes coverage for contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs, violates the religious beliefs of our client. You may recall that there have been several suits filed nationwide challenging the HHS mandate. Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by ACLJ.org | 4:50 PM Mar. 6, 2012
Jay Sekulow, Sean Hannity Talk Obama Mandate and IRS Assault on Tea Party
Jay Sekulow appeared on the Sean Hannity radio program to discuss the Obama Administration’s assault on religious freedom requiring religious and prolife organizations to provide insurance coverage for abortion inducing drugs. They also discussed the ACLJ’s defense of Tea Party groups from an intrusive IRS assault that violates their First Amendment rights. Listen as Jay and Sean discuss President Obama’s assault on liberty. Listen now: Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 1:28 PM Feb. 24, 2012
Obama's Violation of Religious Liberty Facing More Challenges
The mandate and compromise by the Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are facing new challenges each day. The latest legal challenge comes from seven states and a host of organizations - including two private citizens, two religious non-profit organizations and a Catholic school. They have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of HHS regulations, which we have contended from the very start violate the free exercise of religion and the conscie Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 10:55 AM Feb. 22, 2012
70,000 Americans Urge Reversal of HHS Regs
The opposition to the mandate and compromise put in place by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) continues to grow as pressure continues to be applied to HHS Secretary Sebelius. We have sent a detailed legal analysis to Secretary Sebelius on behalf of nearly 70,000 Americans - urging the Secretary to reverse the troubling regulations put in place - measures that violate religious liberty and the conscience rights of millions of Americans. We've been reporting in detail on the p Continue Reading...
Filed in: ObamaCare | by David French | 3:26 PM Feb. 6, 2012
We’re All Catholics Now
I’m not the first to comment on the Obama administration’s breathtaking assault on religious liberty, I won’t be the last, and I’m certainly not the most eloquent. I am, however, a lawyer prepared to do something about it. At issue are two competing visions of religion in American public life. For the Obama administration — beginning with its stance that federal employment laws trumped even a religious organization’s selection of its own ministers and now exte Continue Reading...
Filed in: Free Speech | by David French | 12:45 PM Dec. 9, 2011
A Victory for Religious Liberty at Kansas State
Yesterday, the ACLJ won a fast but important victory at Kansas State University. On Wednesday, the student body president of KSU’s Salina campus contacted us with an urgent question: Could the university censor his graduation speech? KSU student Brett Cooper was set to give the student body president’s traditional address to students, but the university objected to religious references in Brett’s proposed text. In emails, one administrator told him that any mentions of relig Continue Reading...
Filed in: American Heritage | by Matthew Clark | 5:57 PM Dec. 1, 2011
Too Much Religious Liberty in America?
ACLJ Senior Counsel and Director of the Washington Office Colby May recently testified before Congress on the state of religious liberty in the United States, providing specific examples of religious discrimination and animosity directed at Christians. However, not everyone agrees that the U.S. should do more to expand religious liberty. In fact, Barry Lynn, Executive Directer of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU), lamented to Congress that “we have a dizzying level Continue Reading...
Filed in: US Constitution | by Nathanael Bennett | 11:37 AM Oct. 25, 2011
Testifying in Congress on Religious Freedom
It’s what the ACLJ exists to do – defend your fundamental freedoms in the halls of Congress, the courtrooms of America, and around the world. And the most basic of these freedoms is the right to freely practice one’s faith. On Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. ET, ACLJ Senior Counsel Colby May will once again be taking this mission to Congress, as he will be testifying in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. The topic will be “The State of Religious L Continue Reading...
