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  • A Duty to Defend0

    A key priority for our government [is] establishing an Office of Religious Freedom. We announced our intention to do so in the Speech from the Throne on June 3 [ a Speech from the Throne is given at the official opening of a new Parliament]. And I repeated our commitment most recently at the United

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  • Freedom With a Catch0

    It has long been a societal proposition that public education is designed to provide peoples of all socioeconomic, racial, and religious backgrounds with an equal and unbiased educational experience. The institutions of our society are claimed to reflect the separation of church and state, which has long been regarded as a fundamental element of our

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  • Religion and the Schools0

    In its 1952 Zorach v. Clauson ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court said it is constitutionally permissible for public school children to participate in released-time programs in which the children attended religious instruction classes away from school. Writing for the majority, the late Justice William O. Douglas observed: &”We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose

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  • Race and Liberty in America0

    Jonathan Bean has put together a phenomenal work with Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader. For me, an African-American who interned with my church's religious liberty department while I was studying law, the book proved to be an amazing read, and I highly recommend it. I would state unequivocally that it would be

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  • Faith in Works0

    Perhaps no area in society exacerbates the internal tension in the First Amendment between the establishment clause and the free exercise clause than they public workplace. Disputes over religious expression in the public workplace present a constitutional clash between two First Amendment rights: (1) freedom of speech and religion and (2) church-state separation. Consider the

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  • Liberty for All0

    What began nearly eight years ago as an event more tightly focused on Liberty magazine and its first 100 years of publication has grown even more historic. What began as an event almost completely funded by Liberty magazine has grown into a shared financial endeavor that highlights many facets of the Seventh-day Adventist religious liberty

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