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/PRNewswire/ -- Californias housing crisis took center stage in the state capital this week at a solutions discussion forum hosted by the Center for...

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February 5, 2021 Our form of government invites Americans to engage in the legislative process through advocacy. The ERLC advocates for issues of missional priority that are of national import through the cooperation of congregations throughout the Southern Baptist Convention, as was recently noted in the introduction to our 2021 Public Policy Agenda. Our public policy team’s advocacy work in Washington is organized through the categories of religious liberty, sanctity of human life, justice,...

December 17, 2020 On Dec. 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s pandemic restrictions that treated churches more harshly than other spaces, like casinos and restaurants. This is a significant win, as the ERLC argued for in our amicus brief in this case. The case challenging Nevada’s non-neutral pandemic rules was brought by Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, a church in rural Lyon County. Calvary Chapel is represented by the legal organizatio...