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White House Should Focus on the Constitution, Not the Bible

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office at 2:41pm
Last week, it was reported that the president of the American Bible Society is meeting with Joshua DuBois, the head of the President's Office of Faith-Based and ... Read More

A Look at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office at 12:31pm
In 1998, Congress created the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to draw attention to violations of religious freedom in other countries. The ... Read More

Wanted: Women on Birth Control, Not Men on Ham Sandwiches

By Sarah Lipton-Lubet, Washington Legislative Office & Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office at 6:17pm
Yesterday's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the new HHS rule that requires insurance plans to include birth control with no co-pay ... Read More

Looking for Simple Answers to Basic Questions on Faith-Based Hiring

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office & Tyler Ray, Washington Legislative Office at 4:04pm
It’s been almost three years of silence from President Obama on the issue of whether religious organizations may discriminate when hiring for ... Read More

Congress: Stop Targeting American Muslims and Protect Muslim Service Members

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office & Devon Chaffee, Washington Legislative Office at 9:42am
Congress continues to target Muslims even though empirical studies show that violent threats cannot be identified by any religious, ideological, ethnic or racial ... Read More

Who’s Abusing Their Power? House Oversight Committee’s Show-Trial Takes HHS to Task for Helping Trafficking Victims

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office & Sarah Lipton-Lubet, Washington Legislative Office at 6:28pm
In the upside-down, through-the looking-glass world we often find ourselves in, in our nation’s capital, today the House Committee on Oversight and Government ... Read More

Helping Trafficking Victims Isn’t Biased

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office at 9:44pm
Earlier this week, Michael Gerson, an op-ed writer for The Washington Post, penned a particularly troubling piece, accusing the Obama administration—and the ... Read More

Special Exceptions for Religious Organizations Threaten Liberty

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office & Tyler Ray, Washington Legislative Office at 10:35am
Last week, at a congressional hearing on “The State of Religious Liberty in the United States,” Rep. Jim Jordan asked a witness what the biggest threat ... Read More

Now Hiring (Some Exclusions May Apply)

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office & Tyler Ray, Washington Legislative Office at 10:29am
Right now, the White House is wholly focused on getting people back to work. That should be great news for the American people. Why is it then that the ... Read More

Since When Is the First Amendment an Afterthought?

By Dena Sher, Washington Legislative Office at 3:03pm
"If your focus is first and foremost serving people in need, then there's not a tremendous amount of time left to debate the finer points of the church-state ... Read More
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