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FRC Releases List of Threats to Religious Liberty in Military

Jul 26, 2013Jerry1 CommentReligious FreedomReligious Freedom, Religious Liberty

Family Research Council has collaborated with others to produce a list of encroachments of religious liberty in the military.

Increasingly, members of the armed services–especially chaplains–have found themselves at odds with their superiors over religious expression.

Examples of anti-religion activity include Rev. Billy Graham’s son Franklin being dis-invited to the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer event after criticizing Islam’s treatment of women; Christian prayers being banned at funeral services at the Houston National Cemetery; Walter Reed Medical Center banning Bibles; and an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity instructor labeling Catholics and Evangelical Christians as “extremists” alongside Al Quaeda, Hamas, and the KKK.

You can download the complete list, Clear and Present Danger, here.

Family Research Council has also put together a broader list of encroachments of religious liberty, The Survey of Religious Hostility in America. You can download that list here.

Clinton’s Religious Freedom Advisor Honored

Jul 3, 2013JerryReligious FreedomReligious Freedom, Religious Liberty

William Galston

“Religious liberty belongs to no party, no ideology, no creed: It is our common property and our shared inheritance,” said William Galston. Galston, a political scientist and advisor to former-President Bill Clinton, was honored on May 30 at the National Religious Freedom Award Dinner in Washington, D.C.

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Arkansas Justice Institute Helps Schools Navigate Religious Freedom

Jun 19, 2013JerryReligious FreedomFreedom From Religion Foundation, Religious Freedom, Religious Liberty

Letter to School Districts

The Arkansas Justice Institute, a division of Family Council, has launched a summer campaign to help Arkansas public school districts deal with groups that oppose religious freedom.

Everyone knows that schools have been a religious liberty battleground since 1962 when the Supreme Court declared school-sponsored prayer off-limits. Over 50 years later the lines are still being drawn.

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