Updated: Conway Schools Bar ‘Religious Leaders’ from Lunch

The Freedom from Religion Foundation–who grabbed headlines over Thanksgiving and Christmas with its letters opposing public nativity scenes and Christmas ceremonies around the country–has sent a letter to the superintendent of an Arkansas school district.

The group is complaining about youth pastors visiting students during lunch at Conway’s public schools.

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Theologians Oppose Government-Imposed “Neutrality” in Prayer

From Liberty Institute:

Today, on behalf of several distinguished Christian theologians and scholars, Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the United States Supreme Court supporting a request for the High Court to hear an important religious freedom case that could determine the future of prayers before legislative bodies throughout the U.S. The theologians seek to overturn the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s ruling in the case Galloway v. Town of Greece, which declared the town’s legislative prayers unconstitutional because they were not religiously diverse. A copy of the brief may be found here.

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5 Reasons You Should Be Outraged at Obamacare’s HHS Mandate

Alliance Defending Freedom has assembled five reasons every American should be outraged by the Obama Administration’s HHS mandate forcing Americans to pay for contraception and abortion-inducing drugs against their deeply-held religious convictions. They are:

  1. If you are an employer, you may be forced to pay for health insurance that provides abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization whether it violates your religious beliefs or not.
  2. If you are an employer and provide health insurance but refuse to include abortion pills, you may be fined $100 per employee per day.
  3. If you are an employee where your conscience about abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization was previously respected, you may now be forced into a health plan that violates your religious beliefs.
  4. If you are an employee who refuses coverage, you will be fined the greater of either the cost of the plan or 1% of your salary for the first year, 2% of your salary the second year, and 2.5% each year after that.
  5. Finally, you should be concerned that Planned Parenthood helped craft the mandate and applauded the abortion pill mandate’s provisions.  This is not surprising when you consider Planned Parenthood is the largest provider in America’s abortion industry.

Read more here.

We have written about this topic before. The mandate is currently set to affect religious employers this August.