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BJC releases statements, commentary and analysis of pressing religious liberty issues to members of the media. Contact Israel Igualate if you are a member of the media who would like to be added to our distribution list.

Why I testified at a congressional hearing on anti-Sharia laws

I testified because religious freedom has never been something you protect only for yourself. And I testified because the Baptist tradition taught me that soul liberty is not a privilege extended to approved religions.

BJC Center for Faith, Justice and Reconciliation Responds to the Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court Decision

The right to vote is foundational to democracy and inseparable from human dignity.

Religious Privilege Is Not Religious Freedom: BJC Responds to Administration’s Anti-Christian Bias Report

Tyler: Furthering religious privilege for a few is not expansive religious freedom for all For

Government Interference in Civil Society Threatens Rights of Conscience

Tyler: A thriving civil society is not incidental to religious freedom – it is the condition that makes religious freedom possible.

First Amendment, pluralism both undermined in decision to uphold Ten Commandments mandate for Texas classrooms

Hollman: When the state mandates a religious text on every classroom, it is not just decorating a wall, it places the government’s weight behind one religious tradition at the expense of all others.

Diverse Coalition Champions Religious Freedom in Texas Public Schools

A statewide coalition of diverse organizations and Texans across the state successfully empowered Texas families to defend the religious freedom of millions of Texas public school students from Senate Bill 11, the state-organized prayer in school law.

BJC statement on immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and nationwide

"In Minneapolis and across the country, the threats to the religious freedom of all people are not the people standing up for and participating in civic life but the people who wield state power in a manner that undermines it."

More than 160 Texas faith leaders oppose state-organized prayer

“We believe in the value of religious instruction,” reads the letter. “We also understand that the responsibility for religious instruction lies with students, their families, and their local faith communities—not with public schools, and not organized or directed by the state”