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 […]

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.

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.”

Read a March 11, 2014, column by Richard Land, published by The Christian Post, in which he proposes finding “a path of civil toleration” with regards to the rights of gays and those who oppose same-sex marriage.

Read a March 6, 2014, JTA story about a conflict in the Jewish community over distribution of a children’s book that depicts a family with two dads.

Rose Saxe is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Law School in New York and a staff attorney at the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender and AIDS Projects. She has worked on issues involving the intersection of civil rights for LGBT people and religious freedom and expression.

This Feb. 27, 2014, NBC News story explores how the battleground is growing over religious liberty and gay rights.

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 is director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s program on freedom of religion and belief.