Freedom's Ring Podcast

FR 17 - 12 - Religious Freedom Challenge - Gadeir Abbas - Rel Date 03 - 18 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 11 - The Johnson Amendment - Greg Hamilton - Rel Date 03 - 11 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 13 - Refugees And Religious Freedom - James Chen - Rel Date 03 - 25 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 15 - 02 - Crisis In The Cradle Of Christianity - Seiple - 01-10-15 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 08 - The Brave Ones - Tina Ramirez - 02 - 18 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 07 - Religious Freedom In Russia - Clifford May - 02 - 11 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 09 - International Religious Freedom Bill Enacted - Melissa Reid - 02 - 25 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 10 - Religious Freedom Retrospective - Brent Walker - 03 - 04 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 06 - 500th Anniversary Of The Reformation - Nickolas Miller - 02 - 04 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 04 - Are Muslims Afraid? - Zahra Billoo - 01 - 21 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 03 - Dominionism - Frederick Clarkson - 01 - 14 - 17 by Church State Council

FR 17 - 05 - Liberty Magazine - Melissa Reid - 01 - 28 - 17 by Church State Council

A Federal Court remarkably blocked a traditional Yom Kippur ritual by a Jewish group in Southern California! Josh Blackman, Constitutional Law professor at South Texas College of Law.

Peaceful Coexistence? Sexual Liberty vs. Religious Liberty, part two Law professor Bruce Cameron, of Regent University law school, criticizing the report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recommending that sexual liberty trump religious freedom.

This is the title of the 8th World Congress of the International Religious Liberty Association. Our discussion about the Congress and the work of IRLA was with Attorney Dwayne Leslie, Legislative Affairs Director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This will be the first such World Congress to be held in the United States, August of 2017. For more information or to register to attend the World Congress: www.irla.org.

Tim Schultz., President of the First Amendment Partnership, www.1stamendmentpartnership.org, discussing state legislative efforts to protect religious freedom, including laws to protect the rights of religious clubs on college campuses to select leaders consistent with the club’s religious orientation; laws to protect religious adoption agencies rights to make placements in accordance with their faith, and laws balancing LGBT rights and religious freedom.

Julia Bicknell, Executive Editor of World Watch Monitor, www.worldwatchmonitor.org, discussing the notorious blasphemy case of a young Pakistani woman convicted of blasphemy and threatened with an impending execution if her final appeals fails before the Supreme Court.

Charles Haynes, founding director, Religious Freedom Center, Newseum Institute, discussing the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recent report concluding that discrimination laws trump religious freedom.

State Senator and attorney Steve O’Ban, discussing a lawsuit filed against the State of Massachusetts challenging their regulators’ applying public accommodations laws to churches, requiring them to accommodate transgender individuals, etc.

University of San Diego law professor, Steven Smith, discussing the case of the Washington State florist who was sued for refusing to participate in providing a floral arrangement for a same sex wedding for two longstanding customers. Professor Smith wrote a friend of the court brief which a prestigious group of law professors signed onto. Read it here: http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/files/smith-brief.pdf