Over the last few years we have brought your attention to Fairness for All, a balanced piece of legislation that preserves religious freedom and defends LGBTQ rights. The bill does not appear to have made it out of committee. See...
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Biden administration says it wants to defend religious exemptions for schools
This is big news on the religious liberty front. I’m on the road, but hope to return to this story in the coming days. Here is Michelle Boorstein at The Washington Post: The Justice Department in a new court filing...
The MAGA crowd is not happy with the choice of Elise Stefanik to replace Liz Cheney in House GOP leadership
Liz Cheney is on her way out. New York congresswoman Elise Stefanick, who got national attention for her defense of Trump in his first impeachment hearing, is positioning herself to replace Cheney as the House’s third-ranking Republican. Donald Trump has...
The Supreme Court is far more likely to rule in favor of religious rights
Perhaps those concerned about religious liberty as it relates to The Equality Act should consider this. Here is a taste of Adam Liptak’s parsing of a recent essay to be published in The Supreme Court Review: “For many today, religious...
Eric Metaxas on Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell’s conspiracy theories: “I’m tracking perfectly with you” and I am “in awe” of what you are saying
Sidney Powell says that no reasonable person would believe her claim that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 presidential election. Does this mean that Mike Lindell and Eric Metaxas are not reasonable? The MyPillow Guy still believes that Dominion Voting...
A Christian college president on the Equality Act
Morgan Lee of Christianity Today’s “Quick to Listen” podcast interviews Shirley Mullen. a historian, philosopher, and president of evangelical Houghton College in upstate New York. Here is a taste: What does it mean for ministries and organizations that might require...
Illinois senator Dick Durbin compares religious institutions who “discriminate” based on sexual orientation to the KKK. That’s not helpful.
I caught a little of bit of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equality Act. I did a brief post on it this morning after I learned about a constituency of Black Christian leaders who reject the Act and...
57 Black Christian leaders endorse Fairness for All
As I type, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on the Equality Act. As I have noted several times at this blog, I do not support the Equality Act. Instead, I join the National Association of Evangelicals, Council for...
Michelle Bachmann: This week revealed the “greatest attack” on the “foundations” of America that “we have ever seen in 400 years”
Michelle Bachmann, the new dean of Regent University’s school of government, visited MAGA evangelical Jim Garlow’s “election integrity” prayer meeting this week. You can watch it here. (It was posted on Eric Metaxas’s Rumble page). Bachmann warns the pro-Trump evangelical...
CPAC 2021 is over. Let’s check-in with the MAGA evangelicals
On Saturday night I published a post on the Trump evangelical response to the former president’s speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. You can read it here. Let’s check-in on them today: The Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd...
Will the Democrats add religious exemptions to the Equality Act?
I wrote about the Equality Act this morning. I share Jonathan Rauch’s perspective here. I believe the Fairness for All Act is the best way forward. Here is a taste of Rauch’s piece: For religious and faith-based organizations, the House...
What is the Equality Act and what does it mean?
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act. What is this act? National Public Radio explains: The Equality Act would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to explicitly prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill has been...