BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler on the IRS’s Decision to Allow Churches to Endorse Candidates from the Pulpit

“The law has never prevented clergy from speaking out on moral issues or engaging their congregations in civic life,” said Amanda Tyler. “But green-lighting tax-exempt churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit creates new pressure on religious leaders to align with partisan candidates and risk division within congregations and entanglement with campaign agendas.”

Amanda Tyler on the Signing of the Budget Reconciliation Bill and Creation of a National School Voucher Program

“By creating a national school voucher scheme, Congress has opened the door for taxpayer dollars to fund private religious education—undermining both public schools and religious freedom,” said BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler. “On a day meant to celebrate liberty, this legislation erodes it.”

BJC statement on Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin decision

“Religious liberty is best secured when accommodations are tailored, fair, and sustainable,” said BJC General Counsel Holly Hollman. “Today’s decision should be understood in that light.”

BJC condemns new travel ban as ‘state-sanctioned discrimination’

“We must not accept a government that uses religion and ethnicity as proxies for threat,” said BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler in response to the new travel ban. “Religious freedom means freedom for all — not just those favored by those in power.”

BJC: SCOTUS deadlock in Oklahoma v. Drummond preserves principle that government does not sponsor religion

Hollman: This outcome “ensures our public institutions remain open to all, not captured by any one religious mission.”

Statement on the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim