“Religion case threat to worker rights”
Read a March 23, 2014, column by two union leaders about what they see as the potential consequences if the Supreme Court throws out the contraceptive coverage mandate. The column appeared in USA Today.
Category: Church & state
American Religious Freedom Program
The Ethics and Public Policy Center’s American Religious Freedom Program works to counter what it says are misunderstandings by many Americans about the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment clauses on religion. The clauses were meant to ensure a robust role for religion in the public sphere, not to relegate faith merely to a matter […]
“Health Care Law’s ‘Contraception Mandate’ Reaches the Supreme Court”
A March 2014 backgrounder by the Pew Research Center explains the issues at stake in the contraception cases and the likely implications of whatever the justices ultimately decide.
“Why Protecting the Contraception Mandate Protects Religious Freedom”
Read a Dec. 24, 2013, column in Tablet Magazine, a Jewish publication, that says aligning with efforts to overturn the contraception mandate would be “a short-sighted strategic mistake,” even for conservative Jews who might agree with those challenging the mandate.
“Commentary: The truth about religious freedom in the military”
Read a July 15, 2013, column written for Religion News Service by C. Welton Gaddy and Barry Lynn, in which they say that America’s “freedoms are being undercut by forces seeking to infuse the military with a very specific version of Christian culture.”
Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein
Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein is founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a New Mexico-based organization that says the wall separating church and state has been seriously breached in the U.S. military. Weinstein, a former military attorney who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy, is co-author of With God on Our Side: […]
Daniel Mach
Daniel Mach is director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s program on freedom of religion and belief.
“Catholics and New Battle Lines Over Religious Liberty”
According to a June 13, 2012, fact sheet by the Public Religion Research Institute, Americans are split pretty evenly on the question of whether religious liberty is under attack in America. Interesting dichotomies were reported for Catholics, though, with just 44 percent telling PRRI that religious freedoms are being threatened — but 53 percent of […]
