A town in Massachusetts made headlines last year when it attempted to ban profanity. Protesters descended on the small community of Middleborough to voice their disapproval—using words television stations often had to bleep out. The controversy arose when residents at a town hall meeting voted to impose a $20 fine on anyone caught cursing in a public place. The Massachusetts attorney general later ordered the town’s leaders to rescind the measure.
Religious freedom is only one consideration out of many in the battle between retail craft giant Hobby Lobby and the Obama administration, according to the amici curiae brief filed by Life Legal Defense Foundation in the United States Supreme Court. “The Health and Human Services mandate that requires employers to provide insurance coverage for abortion and abortion inducing drugs puts women at risk,” said Dana Cody, President and Executive Director of Life Legal Defense Foundation. “It’s unbelievably irresponsible and sexist,” Cody added.
The Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate unconstitutionally violates the religious freedom of a Christian family that owns a chain of craft stores and a chain of Christian bookstores, the American Civil Rights Union argues in a brief submitted today to the U.S. Supreme Court.
When tens of thousands of pro-life activists gathered in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, they did more than mark the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that swept away state laws restricting abortion.
Reality TV show Duck Dynasty is inspiring students to pray in schools across the country, according to 16-year-old “Dynasty” star Sadie Robertson.
More than four decades after the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, the vast majority of Americans are still very uncomfortable with the reality of widespread abortion in the United States according to a new Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll.
