Alabama: Justice Roy Moore files for faster appeal as ‘The Judicial Inquiry Commission violated the rule of law’
Chief Justice Roy Moore filed a Motion to Expedite his appeal with the specially selected panel of judges at the Alabama Supreme Court and is willing to waive oral argument to speed up the resolution of his case. The More...
Washington florist Barronelle Stutzman, Arlene’s Flowers case may go to Supreme Court
A Washington floral artist says she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision Thursday by the state’s high court that concluded that the government can force her—and, by extension, other Washingtonians—to More...
Atheist group attacks SCOTUS candidates William Pryor, Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman on Roe v Wade, homosexuality, the secularization of America
A national state/church watchdog released a detailed analysis today Wednesday documenting why William Pryor, short-listed as a possible Supreme Court nominee, would be a “disastrous appointment, and must More...
Liberty Counsel defends North Carolina judges, magistrates’ freedom of conscience for gay wedding accomodations
Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief yesterday at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding state magistrates and their constitutional right to intervene to defend their religious liberty, which is being challenged More...
Missouri State Univsersity settles lawsuit with Andrew Cash, graduate counseling degree candidate denied because of his faith
Attorneys with the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm, filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Governors of Missouri State University on behalf of Andrew Cash. The matter has now More...
Mississippi Gov Phil Bryant joins ADF fight for freedom of conscience, religion of business owners, staff
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant argued forcefully in favor of the state’s law protecting Mississippians against government discrimination in a brief filed late Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. More...
ADF supports Carl Larsen, Angel Larsen, Telescope Media Group against Minnesota law banning ‘traditional marriage’ film
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a St. Cloud video production company and its owners filed a motion in federal court Friday to stop Minnesota officials from enforcing a state law against them while More...
Support rallies around Barronelle Stutzman, Arlene’s Flowers as freedom of conscience to refuse gay wedding case heads to SCOTUS
Numerous states and groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs this week with the Washington Supreme Court in support of a Richland floral artist and the principle that the government cannot force Americans to promote More...
Alabama Judge Roy Moore was removed from the bench for not issuing gay marriage licenses
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from the bench Friday for defying the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, the second time in his career. Moore, 69, is an outspoken Christian who is defying the Obergefell More...
North Carolina Judge dismisses LGBT lawsuit against accommodation for magistrates objecting to gay weddings
Judge Max Cogburn dismissed Ansley et al. v. Warren, a lawsuit against a North Carolina law that provides a religious accommodation for magistrates who object to officiating or granting marriage licenses for same-sex More...
Kim Davis wins in court as ALCU lawsuits are dismissed
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has won the fight for religious freedom after a federal judge issued an order dismissing all three 2015 marriage license lawsuits against her yesterday. U.S. Judge David Bunning dismissed More...
Glenn Beck interviews Gary Johnson on freedom of conscience, religious liberty topics
Many voters feel disenfranchised by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as the two main candidates for president and have looked at Libertarian Gary Johnson, who is now rising a bit in some polls. The former New Mexico More...
California bill would force Christian schools to hire homosexuals, allow ‘transgender’ housing
A California state bill passed by their Senate, sponsored by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D), would remove removes Title IX exemptions for nearly all religious schools; therefore, forcing these faith-based colleges and More...
Colorado baker Jack Phillips trying to take freedom of conscience case to US Supreme Court
A Lakewood, Colorado, cake artist who declined to use his artistic talents to create a wedding cake celebrating a same-sex ceremony asked the nation’s highest court Friday to take his case and rule that the government More...
Kentucky man Chris Sevier sues Kim Davis, Gov Matt Bevin, Andy Beshear to marry his laptop
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis for denying a man a license to marry his laptop computer. The plaintiff, Mark “Chris” Sevier, also has filed lawsuits against Governor More...
Washington State petition redacted to protect signers threatened by gay activists
UPDATE: Five years later, the term homophobia is still used against anyone who opposes same-sex marriages, transgender bathrooms, refuses to participate with gay weddings by baker their cake or supplying their flowers. More...
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis tells court that new law resolves her requests
Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk jailed for her faith regarding marriage, notified the Federal Court of Appeals that the new Kentucky law resolves her request for religious liberty accommodation. “The passage More...
Alabama Judge Roy Moore suspended over traditional marriage stance
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore was temporarily suspended following a complaint against his defense of Alabama’s marriage laws from the state’s Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC). Moore now faces More...
Missouri State University: Thomas More Society defends Andrew Cash, denied graduate counseling degree candidate because of his faith
Attorneys with the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm, filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Governors of Missouri State University on behalf of Andrew Cash. Cash was a student More...
Pope Francis tells Catholics to follow ‘conscience’ on contraception, difficult issues over doctrine, dogma
Pope Francis said Friday that Catholics should look to their own consciences more than Vatican rules to navigate the complexities of sex, marriage and family life, demanding the church shift its emphasis from doctrine More...