Jun 7, 2017 | The Magazine |
By Associate General Counsel Jennifer Hawks People of faith have an opportunity to tell Congress they want to protect houses of worship from the dangers that come with candidate endorsements. In April, the Baptist Joint Committee led a diverse coalition of 99 national...
Jun 7, 2017 | Latest News, Reflections, The Magazine |
By Executive Director Amanda Tyler In a recent White House ceremony, President Donald J. Trump spoke in grandiose terms about religious liberty, harkening back to our founding era and mentioning Thomas Jefferson by name. As he read “religious liberty” in the title of...
Jun 7, 2017 | Hollman Report, Latest News, The Magazine |
By General Counsel Holly Hollman From the front row of the lawyers’ section in the courtroom, BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler and I watched and listened as the U.S. Supreme Court probed the scope and application of a state law separating church and state. By the...
Jun 15, 2017 | The Magazine |
By Don Byrd The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the block on President Donald J. Trump’s revised Executive Order regarding immigration and refugee admissions. Finding the primary purpose of the Order to be religious rather than secular, the May 25 decision...
Jun 15, 2017 | The Magazine |
By Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service, with BJC Staff Reports The State Department should add Russia to its list of the worst violators of religious freedom, a U.S. commission declared in its annual report. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom...
