Archive:  eNews for Faith-Based Organizations The eNews for Faith-Based Organizations is a free bi-weekly newsletter that covers key legal and policy developments and news about research findings.   The editor is Stanley Carlson-Thies, President and founder of IRFA. IRFA e-News July 17 2015 After the Court's marriage ruling: The sky isn't falling--but FBOs must speak up; Will Congress protect the nonprofit-status of religious schools? States bolster religious freedom after Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision; Going beyond one-sided initiatives on religious freedom & LGBT protections; Circle still not squared: More HHS contraceptives final rules and another appeal to the Supreme Court; Despite teh Colorado Supreme Court, school vouchers are in fact like Medicaid; Worth reading June 30 2015 eNews Faith-based organizations after the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision June 26 2015 eNews Supreme Court clear on marriage redefinition, not so clear on religious freedom for FBOs June 18 2015 eNews Feeding the homeless requires religious freedom; What will the Supreme Court say about same-sex marriage? New Michigan adoption laws promote adoptions by protecting faith-based agencies; Free to Serve: Protecting the religious freedom of faith-based organizations (forthcoming book); Can federal contractors continue to staff on a religious basis? Two briefings. June 5 2015 eNews LGBT hiring require in federal grants? Will Supreme Court create marriage equality for FBOs? Letter: Preserve tax-exempt status for religious schools; "Every Child Deserves a Family" bill undermines its goal; Nevada's brand-new (near) universal school-choice program May 22 2015 e-News FBOs: fighting poverty or the culture war? Recognition of SSM in federal marriage and fatherhood programs; Care is vital in RFRA wordsmithing and advocacy; SOGI bills and religious freedom: shared marginalization can spur accommodation May 8 2015 e-News Supreme Court and SSM: What consequences for FBOs? Protecting both LGBT runaways and the FBOs that serve them; The sky isn't falling: Religious freedom is context-specific April 23, 2015 eNews Wednesday's RHYA Senate vote: Good start but more work needed to safeguard both providers and at-risk youth; The Supreme Court, SSM, and religious freedom: coming right up! Adoption agency religious freedom bills; Federal policy to recognize SSM in grant programs; More state RFRAs and other approaches; Gordon College's accreditation not at risk April 9, 2015 eNews Indiana RFRA: What happened, and why (and how) it matters; Federal contracting LGBT nondiscrimination rules now in effect March 26, 2015 eNews Will the Supreme Court lift the contraceptives mandate from religious nonprofits?; Possible restriction of FBOs from federal grant programs far from resolved; Will federal officials answer the key question raised by the LGBT Executive Order?; Gordon College; Michigan Legislature Safeguards Diversity of Child Placement Agencies; March 12, 2015 eNews FBO leaders to Senate: Don't exclude us from grant programs; Utah works to end LGBT discrimination while upholding religious freedom; Religious freedom bills in Congress Feb. 26, 2015 eNews Will the Senate replace a harmful nondiscrimination provision in the RHYA reauthorization bill? InterVarsity, ministerial staff, and religious staffing in general; Opportunity to comment on draft regulation on sex discrimination by federal contractors; RFRA, religious accommodations, and religious burdens; Public says religious businesses should not be forced to assist same-sex weddings; Faith-based organizations seek government respect for religious conviction in serving unaccompanied refugee children; Non-discrimination law: protecting LGBT persons or advancing certain views of human sexuality; Worth reading Feb. 6, 2015 eNews Breakthrough Mormon Church Position on Religious Freedom and LGBT Protections; Canadian Christian Law School Wins Important Legal Victory; Left and Right Agree: Feds Need to Clarify Speech Rights of Churches and Nonprofits; Worth Reading Jan 15 2015 eNews 114th Congress and institutional religious freedom; District of Columbia pushes against religious freedom; NLRB gets institutional religious freedom wrong again; FBO inclusion the wrong way in Ohio; Job Bush, Republicans, and same-sex marriage Canadian Christian law school gets encouraging news; Worth reading Dec 23 2014 eNews One of these is not like the others: religious student groups welcome, and not welcome, on campus; After ENDA: a sweeping LGBT nondiscrimination bill with little accommodation of religion; Worth reading Dec 4 2014 eNews Senate bill to protect youth both invites and repels faith-based organizations in many federal programs; Final regulations for the LGBT Executive Order: no clarity for faith-based organizations; FBOs must be in the conversation!; Federal policy to recognize SSM in grant programs; Federally funded child care remains hospitable to faith-based providers; Federal incentives for charitable giving in the next Congress Nov 6th 2014 e-News Will ENDA move in the House? Administration's second contraceptives mandate accommodation already undermined by a court October 24 2014 e-News Monday deadline to comment on FBO accommodation option; LGBT Ex. Order regulations don't clarify FBO rights; SCOTUS, SSM, RF, and marriage inequality; Civil Society Presidential Memorandum; California requires abortion coverage in health plans; Faith-based initiative: Working Group progress; Sen. Orrin Hatch on the importance of religious freedom; Worth reading September 24th e-News Podcast on religious freedom concerns about the LGBT Executive Order; ENDA on the move? What are you calling discrimination? Cal State University leadership lesson; California says: all employer health plans must cover elective abortions; Canadian law societies keep working to undermine proposed Christian law school; Worth reading September 3rd e-News IRFA joins together with CPJ; NYC, preK and the "Pharaoh Effect"; DOL interprets EO to ban transgender bias August 25 2014 eNews New contraceptives mandate "accommodation" announced; Consequences of the LGBT Ex. Order for religious federal contractors August 1 2014 eNews LGBT Ex Order v. religious freedom; Adoption agency protection bill introduced; Will ENDA's religious exemption vanish? Fed. government will propose alternative contraceptives accommodation; Anti-Hobby Lobby bill defeated; Worth reading July 10 2014 eNews Hobby Lobby's victory leads to congressional attacks on RFRA; After Hobby Lobby: Wheaton College gains Supreme Court protection; Mr. President: protect religious freedom in your LGBT Ex. Order; Religious Freedom Restoration Act resources; Religious hiring and job training reauthorization; Is it a "farce" to accredit religious colleges? Worth reading June 16 2014 eNews Executive Order in the works to ban LGBT job bias by federal contractors; Opponents of religious hiring (again) demand AG Holder to act; HHS contraceptives mandate: wholesale victory for Catholic employers; Congressional testimony on US religious freedom; Worth reading May 30 2014 eNews New federal policy on same-sex marriage applied to grantees; Will tax reform suppress charitable giving? Congressional consensus on job training ignores important FBO right; Room for faith-based pre-K as federal role expands? Stop minimizing the role of religion in civil society; Will lawyers from Canada's Christian law school be able to practice? May 9 2014 eNews What gives a college religious freedom? Does Greece show the way for religion in public? What's lost when a Catholic school becomes a charter school; Are faith-based organizations due religious freedom? Growing opposition to accommodation of religion; Worth reading April 25 2014 eNews Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must have both; CFC final rule retains troubling discrimination prohibition; LGBT federal contracting executive order: the dog that didn't bark? HHS contraceptives mandate lawsuits; A Christian law school in Canada, or not? Catholic health insurance avoids contraceptives mandate; Worth viewing or reading April 11 2014 eNews Religious hiring freedom: (more than) 50 years old; Obama administration acknowledges religious hiring; Settlement in Lown v. Salvation Army; Mississippi RFRA update; Elane Photography: no redress from SCOTUS March 28 2014 eNews Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court; Renewed pressure for LGBT executive order for federal contractors; Senate bill: keep parent choice in federal child-care funding; Mississippi RFRA bill: just a way to protect bigots? World Vision: policy change and change back on same-sex marriage; Canadian Supreme Court: religious relativism required? Worth viewing and reading March 7 2014 eNews Arizona and other state religious freedom bills; Avoid the contraceptives mandate via church plans or health care sharing ministries? Tax reform and the charity tax deduction; IRS proposals to limit campaign participation by (c)(4) organizations; Worth reading Feb 13 2014 eNews Don't undermine civil society to cure fiscal crisis; President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast; The NLRB, unions, and religious higher education; Time for full school choice; The ACLU's crabbed view of religious freedom More states to ban gay conversion therapy? Worth reading Jan 31 2014 eNews Flood of briefs supports Hobby Lobby and Conestoga at Supreme Court; Will an LGBT executive order on federal contracts protect religious employers? Don't use 414(e) to protect ministries from contraceptives mandate Jan 17 2014 eNews HHS contraceptives mandate cases--briefly; Obama administration and Religious Freedom Day 2014; Putting kids first in regulating foster care and adoption agencies; Essential book on institutional religious freedom now in paperback; Global religious restrictions rising; Faith-based preK and government funding; Equal protection is only individualistic? Worth reading Jan 3 2014 eNews HHS mandate court action--on steroids! How charitable is charitable giving? Promoting religious freedom=promoting religious privilege? Should it be illegal for Catholic hospitals to be Catholic? The Pope on the cover(s); Will Canada get a Christian law school? Worth reading Dec 10 2013 eNews More legal action against HHS contraceptives mandate; A note about the for-profit HHS lawsuits; Charitable tax deduction still under threat; Is the clergy housing allowance unconstitutional? Makes you think: IRS proposes to restrict (c)(4) politics Pew memo on SSM and RF says less than it seems; Worth reading Nov 19 2013 eNews Vital FBO protections amended into Senate ENDA bill; Religious Freedom Restoration Act: now often disdained; More of the same: IL and HI SSM laws are weak on RF; HHS contraceptives mandate: no end to legal action; Danger sign: turning churches into conduits for federal messages? Oct 11 2013 eNews Be good stewards of our religious freedom; Audio and handouts available from religious hiring briefing; HHS contraceptives mandate update; Initiatives to protect religious freedom=covert campaign against civil rights?; Worth reading Sept. 25 2013 eNews Must the government enforce uniformity? Actually protecting religious freedom after the Supreme Court's DOMA decision; HHS contraceptives mandate: the need for a legislative fix Sept. 13 2013 eNews IRFA congressional briefing on religious hiring; Tax reform is about more than taxes; Federal college rankings: not a neutral process; San Antonio non-discrimination ordinance; Pushback on CA bill to strip Scouts of tax benefits; Protecting faith-based participation in federally funded child care; Notable quote: NJ wrong to protect only some sexual-orientation counseling; Notable quote: Charity tax deduction is about freedom, not dollars August 27 2013 eNews ECFA recommendations on political speech by 501(c)(3)s; Colorado Christian University rejects HHS contraceptives accommodation; NM Supreme Court in wedding photog case: religious freedom is a subordinate right; But government is looking for you; Notable Quotes: all-Canada edition August 9 2013 eNews IRFA submits comments on proposed child care regs; Fed. government resumes refining guidelines for faith-based funding; Misleading survey on SSM and religious freedom; Supreme Court's marriage decisions and faith-based services; Faith & Giving Coalition letter to Senate Finance Committee; Anchoring the religious hiring freedom in Ohio law; HHS contraceptives mandate news July 9 2013 eNews Senators: Zero-Out Charity Deduction Just Like Tax Breaks; Supreme Court's DOMA Decision and Faith-Based Services; Minnesota (Non)Guidance on Same-Sex Marriage Consequences; DOMA Decision and Adoption Law in Michigan; "Government Money In=Religious Speech Out" Can't be the Rule; One Reason SSM Legislators Minimize Religious Freedom Protections; Worrisome Obama Administration Religious Freedom Trends; Multi-Faith Letter Protesting the HHS Contraceptives Mandate; Worth Reading June 28 2013 eNews special ed Final HHS Contraceptives Mandate Regulations Issued: No Magic Here June 18 2013 eNews New "Faith in Giving" Coalition; HHS Contraceptives Mandate--August 1 Deadline; Expand Foster Care by Shrinking the Number of Agencies; Worth Reading June 5 2013 eNews Progressive Arguments for Religious Organizational Freedom; Civil Rights and Religious Freedom; Undermining Civil Religion by Misinterpreting Charity; So Foster Care Agencies Aren't Actually Interchangeable? May 24 2013 eNews ENDA and Faith-Based Services; Religious Hiring, Rep. Bobby Scott, and AG Holder; Fortnight for [Religious] Freedom; Nuanced New Research on Faith-Based Organizations; Same-Sex Marriage Laws and Religious Freedom; Comments on Combined Fed. Campaign Proposed Rules Due by June 7; IRFA President's Kuyper Lecture on Institutional Religious Freedom; Worth Reading April 23 2013 eNews Chipping Away at RFRA; Obama Faith-Based Advisory Council Continues; Supreme Court: Oral Argument About Speech Restrictions on Grantees; Call for Comments: Combined Federal Campaign Proposed Regulations; Worth Reading on Religious Freedom and Anti-Discrimination Rules; Kuyper Lecture to be Presented by IRFA's President; Worth Reading; Support IRFA April 9 2013 eNews Supreme Court Case: Can Government Require Private Groups to Support Its Views? Charitable Giving Incentive Will Likely Be Whacked in President's Budget; ENDA Correction; Halo Effect? The ACLU's Popular but Bogus Slogan About Religious Freedom; Kuyper Lecture to be Presented by IRFA's President; Support IRFA April 1 2013 eNews Same-Sex Marriage, the Supreme Court, and Religious Freedom; One Week Left to Comment on Contraceptives Mandate Proposed Rules; IRFA Submits Comment on Contraceptives Mandate Proposed Rules; ENDA Executive Order on the Way? A Challenge to Senator Portman; Why So Much Religious Freedom Action in the States? Support IRFA March 13 2013 eNews Melissa Rogers is New Director of White House Faith-Based Office; Opportunities to Comment: Contraceptives Mandate Plus Civil Rights Commission; RFRA Remedy for VAWA Restrictions on Religious Hiring; HHS Contraceptives Mandate: House Conscience Bill Introduced; Worth Hearing; Support IRFA. March 1 2013 eNews A Possible Legislative Fix for the HHS Contraceptives Mandate; Accept a Government Gag if You Accept Government Funds; Hidden Restriction on Faith-Based Organizations in VAWA Reauthorization; Charity Tax Deduction: Important for Many Charities, Vital for Others; Commission Briefing: Religious Freedom vs. Non-Discrimination; Universal Government-Funded Pre-K Education? Worth Reading--From Canada; Support IRFA Feb. 11, 2013 special ed. eNews Feb. 14 Conference Call on Contraceptives Mandate Developments; Head of White House Faith-Based Office Steps Down; Bill to End FEMA Bias Against Houses of Worship in Reconstruction Help; Support IRFA Feb. 5, 2013 eNews New Contraceptives Mandate Announcement: Imperfect Proposals; Possible Troubling New Anti-Discrimination Requirement for the Combined Federal Campaign; Worth Reading; Support IRFA Jan. 22, 2013 eNews US Citizens Increasingly Worried About Religious Freedom; Religious Freedom Day Presidential Proclamation; Religious Hiring Complications No Excuse for this Mess; HHS Contraceptives Mandate News; A First: Religious Liberty Cliinic at Stanford; Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom: Illinois and Rhode Island; Charitable Tax Deduction Not Safe Yet; Getting Hot Down Under; Transcript of Brookings Event on Obama's Faith-Based initiative; Notable Quote; Support IRFA Jan. 3, 2013 eNews Fiscal Cliff and Faith-Based Organizations; Next 4 Years of the Obama Faith-Based Initiative; ECFA Report to Sen. Grassley: Enhance Accountability; Papal Guidelines for Catholic Service Organizations; FEMA, Sandy Recovery, and Houses of Worship; HHS Contraceptives Mandate Developments; Free to be Distinctive? Worth Reading; Support IRFA Dec. 11, 2012 eNews IRFA Needs You; Protecting Faith-Based Adoption Services in Michigan; What's Ahead for the Obama Faith-Based Initiative?; Religious Exercise In a Business? By a Business?; The Costly Burden of the HHS Contraceptives Mandate; Good and Bad News About Religious Freedom in Education; Taxing and Giving; Crazy Question No 847: Are Charities More Effective than Government?; City Planning and Faith-Based Organizations: Calgary; Join IRFA Nov. 14, 2012 eNews After the Election: The Same, But More Challenging; Opposition to the Contraceptives Mandate: Not Just an Election Ploy?! The Promised Contraceptives "Accommodation": Judge Says "Show Me!" Faith-Based Organizations and the Growth of the "Nones"' Report on the Freedom of Christians in the UK; Say What? Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA Nov. 1, 2012 eNews Free to Serve: Protect the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Services; Religious Freedom as a Consideration in Voting; Lawsuits vs. HHS Contraceptives Mandate Continue to be Filed; Tufts Univ. Knows Best About Christian Student Group Leadership; Presidential Candidates' Shared Bad Idea: Cap the Charitable Deduction; Notable Quotes; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA Oct 11, 2012 eNews Religious Freedom and Social Architecture; HHS Contraceptives Mandate Litigation; Contraceptives Mandate Creates Two Classes of Religious Organization; Does New York's SSM Law Protect Faith-Based Agencies? Financial Stress Ahead for Nonprofits? Can--And Should--Religious Organizations Speak Up During Elections? IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA Sept 27, 2012 eNews IRFA to EEOC: Protect Religious Hiring! Another Burden Imposed by the HHS Contraceptives Mandate; The NLRB and Religious Higher Education; Administration Accommodation of Conscience; Notable Quotes; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA Sept 11, 2012 eNews Party Platforms, God Talk, and Faith-Based Services; A Welcome, If Suspect, Softening of the HHS Contraceptives Mandate; Rocks Ahead, Due to PILOTs; Being Against Faith-Based Charities By Being For Them?; "Much Ado (Without Cause?) About Religious Liberty"; Worth Considering; IRFA Needs You! Join IRFA August 22, 2012 eNews Undermining the Good in the Name of the Good; Contraceptives Mandate Lawsuits: Only a Lull; SUNY Buffalo Religious Student Club Rights are (Partially) Vindicated; Contributing to the Common Good: Taxes or Charitable Gifts?; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA August 8, 2012 eNews FAQ on HHS Mandate: Conference Call Recording Now Available; President's Faith-Based Advisory Council Restarted; Hercules Industries Wins (For Now): Maybe Religious Exercise Isn't Banned from Companies; Obama Administration Under Fire Again About Religious Hiring; Administration's Faulty and Dangerous Definitions of Religious Entities; Notable Quotes; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA July 24, 2012 eNews HHS's Pluralist Policy for Grants to Faith-Based Organizations; Health Care Ruling Undermines Charity Tax Benefits; Ecumenical Opposition to the HHS Contraceptives Mandate; Go Into Business, Leave Your Faith Behind; Thursday IRFA Conference Call on the HHS Contraceptives Mandate; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA July 10, 2012 eNews Contraceptives Mandate Start Date is August 1; Just How Costly Are the Tax Exemptions for Religious Organizations?; "Why So Little Religious Politicking in This Presidential Election?"; Peter Singer's Cramped View of Religious Freedom; Notable Quotes; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA June 28, 2012 eNews Supreme Court Upholds Health Law--Religious Freedom Concerns; Contraceptives Mandate: Another Bad Definition of Religious Organizations is Proposed; Notable Comments on the ANPRM; Notable Quotes; Also Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA June 12, 2012 eNews Comments Due June 19 on Administration's "Accommodation" Ideas Letter to HHS Secretary Sebelius Protesting the 2-Class System Good News About Religious Student Clubs Religious Exercise--But Only Behind Walls? Notable Quotes Worth Reading IRFA Needs You Join IRFA May 30, 2012 eNews 43 Catholic Entities Sue Over the Contraceptives Mandate; Becket Fund Keeps Full Record of Contraceptives Mandate Lawsuits; Arizona Adopts Conscience Protections for Professionals; From Arizona: A Better Definition of "Religious Employer"; IRFA Resource on the Contraceptives Mandate for Faith-Based Service Organizations; Notable Quote; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA May 17, 2012 eNews: correction and supplement State Same-Sex Marriage Laws and Religious Freedom--Corrected Exemption Language; May 31 Deadline: Sign Letter to HHS Sec. Sebelius on the Contraceptives Mandate and Religious Freedom; USCCB Comment on Contraceptives Mandate "Accommodation" Ideas MAY 15, 2012 eNews Religious Freedom and Respect in the Context of Marriage Redefinition; State Same-Sex Marriage Laws and Religious Freedom; EEOC Ruling Prohibiting Transgender Job Discrimination; Sign Letter to HHS Sec. Sebelius On the Contraceptives Mandate and Religious Freedom; Congressional Fooling with RFRA and Religious Hiring; Notable Quotes; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA MAY 1 , 2012 eNews Minor Changes Recommended in Church-State Rules for Federal Funding; IRFA Memo for Faith-Based Organizations on the Contraceptives Mandate; Every Man Is an Island, and the Constitution Ought to Say So?; If ENDA by Executive Order, It Ought to Protect Religious Organizations; Persistent Myths About Religious Hiring; A Quotation Worth Pondering; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA Contraceptives/Exemption Memo Memo for parachurch organizations on health insurance choices, the contraceptives mandate, and religious freedom consequences; includes a sign-on protest letter and suggestions for commenting on the proposed "accommodation" for non-exempt groups April 17, 2012 eNews VA Governor Signs Law Protecting Faith-Based Adoption Agencies; Catholic Bishops Call For "A Fortnight for Freedom"; No Obama Administration ENDA Executive Order After All; Vanderbilt Student Religious Groups Stand up for Associational Freedom; School Choice: Progress and Regress; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You; Join IRFA April 3, 2012 eNews Obama Administration Religious Freedom Timeline; Massachusetts Court Rules Against Grant to Catholic Bishops; Contraceptives Mandate: Fatal Flaw is the Definition of Religious Employer; Will the Federal Government Require Pro-Gay Hiring by FBOs?; Multi-Faith Solidarity on Selecting Student Group Leaders; The Need is Religion-Respecting Regulation; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You!; Join IRFA March 21, 2012 eNews March 16 Contraceptives Mandate; Announcement: Only a Call for Comments; Where Are the Church-State Separationists When We Need Them?; Supreme Court Declines Chance to Uphold Religious/Associational Freedom; UK Needs Charitable Choice; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You!; Join IRFA March 12, 2012 eNews White House Consulting Faith Groups About Additional Contraception Accommodation; Squeezing Religious Freedom by Expanding Gay Rights; Is Politico Right: Federal Faith-Based Fade-Away?; Pharmacists' Conscience Rights Vindicated in Washington Federal Court; Worth Reading; Worth Hearing; IRFA Needs You!; Join IRFA February 21, 2012 eNews Religious Freedom Concern About Contraceptive Mandate Keeps Growing; Needy Government vs. Needed Civil Society; The Grass Isn't Always Greener Elsewhere; IRFA Needs You! Join IRFA Feb. 13 eNews special edition: Contraceptives Compromise Last Friday's Announcements; Some Progress; Essential Details Missing; Two Classes of Religious Employers; Key Compromise is a "Fig Leaf"?; Broader Protections Required; Fundamental Protections Should Be Built Into the Foundations February 7, 2012 eNews Administration Unresponsive to Furor About Contraceptives Mandate; A Win for Professional Judgment by Counselors; Virginia Considers Laws to Protect Faith-Based Adoption Agencies; Disestablishing Public Education; What? Religion Has No Place in Civil Rights Issues?; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You!; Join IRFA January 23, 2012 eNews No Change to Contraceptives Mandate/Narrow Exemption; Religous Leaders Unite to Defend Marriage and Religious Organizations; Pope Speaks About the Freedom of US Religious Organizations; President's Religious Freedom Day Proclamation; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs You!; Join IRFA January 11, 2012 eNews Hosanna-Tabor US Supreme Court rules 9-0 to uphold freedom of churches to select their own leaders January 11, 2012 eNews Candidates Note Institutional Religious Freedom Issues; Who Cares If We Suppress Those Faith-Based Services Now?; Shocking: Groups Uniquely Threatened by Terrorism Get Majority of Security Grants!; 420 Days and Counting; Noteworthy Quotes; Worth Reading December 28, 2011 eNews A Penny for Our Thoughts; Expanding Opposition to Contraceptives Mandate/Narrow Exemption; VA Adoption Regulations Finalized Without Religious Restrictions; Video Now Available: Keep Faith in Faith-Based Education; Another University Says to Religious Clubs: Pretend Religion is Irrelevant!; It's Obvious What Counselors Must Do, Isn't It?; It Would Be Entertaining If it Wasn't Serious; Worth Reading; December 14, 2011 eNews CARD Demands Religious Hiring Data from the Administration; Advancing LGBT Rights Overseas; Good News in the Regulatory Fine Print; Religion Not Banned After All from Gospel Rescue Mission; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs YOU!; Join IRFA November 29, 2011 eNews Not Only Catholic Institutions Oppose the Contraception Mandate; Pro and Anti Religious Freedom Groups Proliferate in Washington; Looking to Dictatorships For Ways to Keep Religious Groups Alive in America!; New York Attorney General Aims to Protect (Some?) Religious Rights; A Federal Child Care Program is the Next Big Push?; Fifth Hill Briefing: Keeping the Faith in Faith-Based Education; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs YOU!; Join IRFA November 15, 2011 eNews Briefing Video: Are Faith-Based Services Discriminatory?; Belmont Abbey College Sues to Stop Contraception Mandate; Charitable Donation Disincentive On the Way?; S 598: The (Dis)Respect for Marriage Act; Dolan's Decree: Archdiocese of New York Policy on Same-Sex Marriage; Jonathan Rauch Asks: Will The Gay Movement Become Tolerant?; Worth Reading; Support IRFA; Join IRFA; November 2, 2011 eNews Video Available of Hill Briefing on Religious Freedom in Health Care; House Constitution Subcommittee Hearing on Religious Liberty in the US; Senate Ally For Rep. Stark's Bill that Shutters Faith-Based Adoption Agencies; NRB Study Exposes Anti-Religious Censorship by New Media Companies; Want a Federal Grant? Be Sure to Facillitate Abortions; Worth Reading; Support IRFA; Join IRFA October 18, 2011 eNews Video Now Available of Congressional Briefing on Religious Hiring; Religious Leaders Thank the President For Maintaining Religious Hiring Freedom; Amendment Proposed in Illinois To Revive Faith-Based Foster Care Services; Rush Limbaugh to Front Democratic Party?; Vanderbilt's Insane Student Group Policy; Worth Reading; Support IRFA; Join IRFA October 6, 2011 eNews Religious Hiring and the US Supreme Court--Twice Over; Second IRFA/Becket Fund Hill Briefing; Defending Religious Freedom: New Catholic Initiatives and More; If School Choice Isn't Legal or Affordable . . .; Catholic Bishops Group Calls Out the President for Undermining Religious Freedom; Catholic Health Association Calls Out the Administration for Ignoring Religious Freedom; Take Note; Support IRFA; Join IRFA September 26, 2011 eNews Oct. 5: Key Religious Hiring Case Argued at Supreme Court; Again: CARD Presses Obama to Limit Religious Freedom; Again: Faith-Based Adoption Agencies in Virginia Under Threat; Again: The President Advocates Cutting the Incentive to Donate; Illinois Shoves Out Faith-Based Foster Care Organizations; Video Available: Capitol Hill Briefings on Institutional Religious Freedom; ECFA Policy Commission Moves Ahead; Worth Noting; Support IRFA; Join IRFA September 6, 2011 eNews Faith Leaders Protest Narrow Exemption; Catholic Bishops Slam Administration's Attack on Religious Freedom; Congressional Prayer Caucus Defends Religious Hiring; Worth Noting; Support IRFA; Join IRFA August 23, 2011 eNews Department of Justice Versus Institutional Religious Freedom; What's the "Public"? Hospital Mergers and Catholic Guidelines; Cutting Private Funding to Faith-Based Organizations; Faith Communities, Faith-Based Services, and the British Riots; Food For Thought; Support IRFA; Join IRFA August 9, 2011 eNews Federal Government Proposes Feeble Religious Exemption; Can Public Universities Ban Job Listings from Religious Employers?; Another Attack on Religious Student Groups; Faith-Based Office Affirms Current Federal Policies; What Faith-Shaped Service Means: a Sikh Voice; Food for Thought; Support IRFA; Join IRFA July 26, 2011 eNews President Obama Defends Religious Hiring Preserve the Charitable Deduction; Split Coming Among Lutheran Charities; Health Care Law and Conscience, Again; Protecting the Religious Freedom of Counselors; Non-discrimination Requirements Can Harm the Vulnerable; Support IRFA; Join IRFA July 14, 2011 eNews Cognitive Dissonance, Same-Sex Marriage, and Religious Exemptions Religious Leaders to the President: Don't Curtain Our Religious Hiring Freedom Faith-Based Foster Care and Adoption Now On Again in Illinois Robust Religious Freedom Exemption in RI Civil Unions Law Now, For Something Completely Different Worth Reading June 28, 2011 eNews New York Same-Sex Marriage and Faith-Based Services; Pitting Civil Rights Against Religious Hiring; Proper Church-State Separation; Support IRFA; Join IRFA June 14, 2011 eNews Catholic Colleges and the National Labor Relations Board; Another Attempt to Tinker with the Federal RFRA; Catholic Charities Agencies Take Illinois Government to Court; Effort to Protect Private Higher Education from Education Department Overreaching; Persistent Media Myths; Quotation to Ponder; Support IRFA; Join IRFA June 2, 2011 eNews Rhode Island Civil Unions Bill Has Strong Religious Freedom Protections; Limited Guidance in White House Faith-Based Funding Guide; Renewed Pressure in VA Against Faith-Based Adoption Agencies; How Many Faith-Based Adoption Services Will Remain in Illinois?; Are Christian School Graduates World-Changers?; Who is Shaping Our World?; Worth Reading: Douglas Laycock Essays on Free Exercise; Quotations to Ponder; IRFA Memberships; IRFA Needs Your Help May 17, 2011 eNews IL Plea: Protect Rights of Faith Agencies When Advancing Gay Rights; Rep. Stark Introduces Again Troubling Adoption Bill; Update: Virginia Avoids Bad Adoption Regulation; And Then There Were None: UK Catholic Adoption Agencies Vanish; Marriage Redefinition Has Two Consequences, Not Just One; Say It Ain't So; AG Holder Says No Plans to Withdraw RFRA Hiring Memo; Working Group on Obama Executive Order; World Vision Hiring Victory Appealed to Supreme Court; AZ: Protecting Religious Students in Professional Training; Florida Voters Get Chance to Overturn Anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment; IRFA Memberships April 19, 2011 eNews ENDA Reintroduced in Congress One Church = $6,090,032 Economic Value for the Community; Illinois and Adoption Agencies: Who Is Restricting Whom?; Forced Religion - Or Forced Secularism?; Take the Money And Lose Internal Control?; Partnering with the White House Agenda; Take Note; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs Your Help April 5, 2011 eNews Important Supreme Court "Ministerial" Employment Case The Administration Invents New Restrictions on Grantees Big Win for Kids Suppressing Faith-Based Child-Serving Agencies in Virginia? Does the Charitable Deduction Look Like a Nail? Obama Administration Proposes to Loosen Bush Faith-Based Limitations Take Note Worth Reading IRFA Needs Your Help March 22, 2011 eNews Yell the Story of Faith-Based Services; Same-Sex Marriage Tabled in Maryland; When to Fight Instead of Switch? Protecting Faith-Based Counselors; Coming Back from Over-reaching Overseas? Take Note; Worth Reading; IRFA Needs Your Help March 8, 2011 eNews DOMA, the President, and FBOs; Compassionate Service Requires Political Action; Threats to Faith-Based Foster Care Agencies in Illinois; School Choice That Doesn't Leave Faith Out; Foster Care in England: Christians Need Not Apply?; Protecting Faith-Based Services; Substituting "Big Society" for "Big Government" in the UK February 22, 2011 eNews Reduced Conscience Protections for Health Care Institutions and Professionals; FBOs: Don't Hide Your Light Under a Bushel; Over-Regulation of Higher Education; Turning the Charitable Deduction into an Actual Government Expenditure; A License For Everyone; Misleading ABA Guide to Workplace Law; Briefly; Will You Support IRFA? February 8, 2011 eNews Religious Hiring Vindicated Again; New Members for the President's Faith Advisory Council; President Obama's National Prayer Breakfast Speech; Faith-Based Schools and the DC Voucher Program; Religious Hiring Myths; Baltimore Crisis Pregnancy Center Victory; Protecting Religious Freedom When Marriage is Redefined January 25, 2011 eNews Bogus Religious Freedom Protection in Maryland Same-Sex Marriage Bill; Respecting the Diversity of Providers of Services; A Victory for Professionals with a Pro-Life Conscience; Mischief in President Obama's Regulatory Reform?; Health Care Reform and Tax Funding of Abortion (episode 576); Notable Quote; Worth Reading; Will You Support IRFA? January 11, 2011 eNews ECFA Heads New Commission On Church Accountability; Financially Stressed Governments Seek Funds from Nonprofits; Is the Administration's Partnership Talk Mostly Just Talk?; Crying Wolf; Imposing the Rules Without Giving the Gold; Notable Quotes; Worth Reading; Will You Support IRFA? December 28, 2010 eNews Lame Duck Congress Leaves Religious Hiring Alone; Protecting Ministries If Marriage Is Redefined; Persistent Myths About Religious Hiring; Protecting Conscience While Expanding Health Care; Compassionate Conservatism vs. Tea Party Conservatism?; Is "Outreach" the Way to Gain Religious Voters?; The Tax Deal and Nonprofits; Interview with IRFA President in Outcomes Magazine; Will You Support IRFA? December 14, 2010 eNews Lame Duck Watch; Stimulus Dollars Flow to Faith-Based Organizations; Why Not a Limited Religious Hiring Exemption? IRFA Featured in Outcomes Magazine; Will You Support IRFA? 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