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Deseret News Share this story Becket Fund for Religious Liberty When then-President Bill Clinton signed The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) the week before Thanksgiving in 1993, it marked a remarkable bipartisan effort between Utah Republican Orrin Hatch and Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy. The months of work, scholarship and political weight of the two senators propelled one of the most significant acts of religious liberty legislation of the past 25 years to a 97-3 Senate win, followed by a unanimous voice vote in the House. For that work and more than four decades of Senate ser...

Fox News’ Anti-Trans Obsession: ‘Religious Liberty’ Lies Edition Posted by Priscilla -25.80pc on April 28, 2021 · Flag Fox host Ainsley Earhardt aided and abetted two right-wingers in dishonestly demonizing a Biden administration effort to ensure non-discrimination in healthcare as anti-religion. As documented by Media Matters, Fox News is actively promoting a divisive and deceitful campaign against the transgender community. Last week, Fox & Friends reinforced the propaganda with the presentation of two Catholic activists whose anti-transgender views, wrapped in the guise of “religi...

16 Dec 2020 The Archdiocese of Washington, DC, is seeking legal relief from coronavirus restrictions through a restraining order that would temporarily strike down attendance caps at houses of worship. The lawsuit is against Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and her lockdown orders, according to the Washington Post, which notes that its filing coincides with a large church in the archdiocese, St. Michael the Archangel in Silver Spring, Maryland, closing because the pastor of that congregation tested positive for coronavirus: According to the parish’s Web site, Monsignor Eddie Tolentino tested positi...

Birth control pills (AP file photo) OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — In the waning days of the Trump administration, a federal judge is wrestling with whether to vacate federal rules that allow employers to opt out of paying for birth control on religious or moral grounds. “I’m going to go out on a limb and say it could well be that the Department of Health and Human Services will have a different perspective on these issues than the current one,” U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam said Wednesday. He noted that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is poised to become the new head of the...

States, the governor of indiana says he will fix the religious freedom law that sparked a national backlash. >> the measure allows indiana's businesses to use religious freedom as a defense. many say it allows indiana to discriminate against gay people. >> the governor insists that wasn't the intent and resisted calls to change it. on tuesday he said the law needed clarification. >> after much reflection and in squulgz leadership in the general assembly, kmief to ti'v the conclusion that it would be helpful to move legislation this week that makes it clear that this law does not give businesse...