The Louisiana legislature has moved one step closer to amending the time-tested religious freedom protections of the state's constitution. Voters would have the final say on House Bill 340, which needed 26 Senators to pass and squeaked by, 27-9 according to The...
The Washington Post's On Faith site is hosting a discussion on religious exemption with regard to same-sex marriage. The BJC's Brent Walker added his voice and makes an important point: clergy and church discretion in same-sex marriage participation is already...
True Baptists believe in freedom of conscience for all, with no government involvement for or against one's relationship to God. In today's must-read, Louisville pastor Joe Phelps reminds Courier-Journal readers that the kind of Baptist about to descend on his...
Hillary Clinton met with the US Commission on International Religious Freedom for the first time as Secretary of State. She received the Commission's annual report and remarked that the President's Cairo speech made clear the Obama Administration's belief...
Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has announced the Committee will meet Monday, July 13 to consider the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. In his statement explaining the timing of the hearing, Leahy emphasized the schedule is...
Speaking at the Baptist History and Heritage Society meeting in Huntsville, AL over the weekend, Doug Weaver urged fellow Baptists to remember where we came from a a persecuted minority. Associated Baptist Press reports: While Baptists proudly point to religious...
