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  • … Fort Des Moines Church of Christ Alliance Defending freedom filed a federal … representing an Iowa church filed a federal lawsuit against members of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, among … the church’s teaching on biblical sexuality and from forcing the church to open its restrooms and showers to …
  • … Trinity Lutheran Church How Trinity Lutheran Church Won a Landmark Victory for … Scrap Tire Surface Materials Grant Program, offered by the State of Missouri. The grant program, open to all nonprofits … won its case at the Supreme Court. The Court ruled 7-2 that the government cannot exclude churches and other …
  • … Washington State Wants to Force This Church to Pay for Abortions As a … 21, 2023 Opponents of religious freedom love to use “separation of church and state” as a misguided battle cry to …
  • … Washington State Treated Churches Worse Than Breweries and Cannabis Retailers Washington State treated Christ’s Church of Mt. Spokane and Westgate Chapel differently than … to sanctuary seating designed to provide six feet of separation between families and individuals; and thoroughly …
  • … California Courts: Churches Can’t Be Forced to Fund Abortion Skyline Wesleyan Church took a stand after a California agency required … 20, 2020 Revised September 8, 2023 How extreme is the state of California on abortion? You probably already know …
  • … ADF Defends Oklahoma State Agency That Refused to Discriminate Against Catholic … the free exercise thereof.” While proponents of “church-state separation” often harp on the first clause of that …
  • … couple requested to use the Ocean Grove pavilion for their civil union ceremony. Scott explained that the … of The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, and hosting the ceremony would violate their moral … for Civil Rights to court for violating their right to act according to their freedom of religion. Sadly, the judge …
  • … Worship Banned at the Civic Center? Why One New Church Filed a Lawsuit Against Its Town Redeemer Fellowship of Edisto Island filed a … changed its policy to reverse the worship ban. Now churches can rent the civic center on the same terms as every …
  • … The Administrative State: The Lawmakers No One Votes For The unchecked power of … movement that began in Europe take root in the United States. The election of 1912 featured Republican incumbent … law and structural constitutional doctrines such as separation of powers as additional tools in ADF’s legal …
  • … Casinos Are Open, But Churches Are Closed? During the COVID-19 pandemic, Nevada … (and unconstitutional) double standard. So one Nevada church took a stand to correct it. Read on to learn more …  before the 9th Circuit, and the court ruled against the state , striking down the COVID-19 restrictions that treated …