Religious Freedom Archives - Page 12 of 19
December 5th, 2018
A U.K. man says he was fired from his job due to his vegan beliefs. Now he's alleging religious discrimination, launching a debate on whether veganism constitutes a religion.
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December 4th, 2018
“You can't take Christ out of Christmas,” as the saying goes. Well, apparently, you can. And one Virginia school plans to do just that. Officials at Robious Middle School have banned all songs containing mentions of Jesus from the annual Christmas concert.
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November 20th, 2018
How do we balance religious freedom with safety, security, and the liberal Western values of a free society? It’s a question Europeans have been struggling with for decades. Now, in the wake of the recent midterm elections, that conversation has begun anew in the United States.
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October 12th, 2018
Just when you thought Christian bakers were out of the news for good, a story from across the pond has reignited the debate over religious freedom and LGBT rights. The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that two devoutly Christian owners of a bakeshop in Belfast were justified in refusing to bake a cake for a local gay rights activist.
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October 1st, 2018
A Catholic priest has been removed from his Chicago parish after performing an exorcism on a rainbow flag, cutting it into pieces, and burning it with the help of like-minded parishioners. Did the church have a choice?
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September 14th, 2018
Destroying crosses. Burning Bibles. Shuttering churches and ordering parishioners to renounce their faith. By all accounts, China's government is waging an all-out war on Jesus the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Mao Zedong’s regime was in power over fifty years ago.
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September 13th, 2018
Gary Campbell was taken aback when he received word from Clark Summit University that he was being kicked out of the school, despite being just 6 credits shy of graduating. Apparently, officials at the small Christian college in Pennsylvania discovered a secret which led to their decision to dismiss him: Campbell is gay.
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September 7th, 2018
During his testimony before Congress, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faced criticism for referring to birth control as "an abortion-inducing drug" that religious groups shouldn't be forced to provide to employees.
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August 31st, 2018
When Ryan Coleman initially accepted a job, he assumed the company-sponsored Bible study sessions were an optional activity. To his dismay, he soon discovered that attendance was actually a condition of employment.
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