Commentary The Declaration of Independence is America’s charter. It’s the foundation on which our republic rests, which is why its most critical assertion remains relevant to every American. That assertion is that our essential rights, rights from which we can’t be separated as they’re intrinsic to our very humanity, come from God, not the government….
Natural Rights and Religious Liberty: The Founders’ Perspective
Commentary The meaning of religious freedom remains one of the more contested areas of our constitutional politics. The progressive left tends to emphasize freedom from religion, especially freedom from the influence of traditional religious sexual morality. Social conservatives, by contrast, emphasize the right to be religious, especially the freedom to live and act in the…
Accusations of Religious ‘Fundamentalism’ Ring Hollow
October 8, 2021
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Commentary Following the shock resignation of the former state Premier Gladys Berejiklian of New South Wales (NSW), Australia’s most populous state, the governing Liberal Party selected Dominic Perrottet as her replacement to become the 46th premier of the state. Perrottet is a Catholic who attended a Catholic high school and studied law at the University of…
Legal Protections for Religion Are Protections for Us All
Commentary Unless we are vigilant, Australians will soon find that any public declaration or practice of an explicitly religious viewpoint—particularly a Christian one—whether in relation to gender, sexuality, euthanasia, or even history, will be condemned as harmful hate speech. And that condemnation is likely to become ever more bitter. For as things stand, there is…
Religion a Threat to Authoritarianism
September 20, 2021
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Commentary As I am an avid reader, I decided to read Jennifer Zeng’s acclaimed memoir “Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong.” This book, published in 2005, is a well-known memoir of a member of the Falun Gong faith who was imprisoned in a Chinese labour re-education facility, tortured, and humiliated until…
Will the Right to Die Always Trump the Right to Religious Liberty?
September 16, 2021
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Commentary Once again, rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion—all fundamental freedoms set out in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and which Australia has ratified—are under attack. This time, the threat comes from the recent decision of Queensland’s Palaszczuk government to deny faith-based hospitals and aged care facilities the right to…
Overt IRS Hostility to Prayer, Bible-Study Draws GOP Anger; Pelosi, Hoyer, Other Dems Silent
Top House Republican leaders are blasting an IRS denial of tax-exemption to a Texas prayer group as an overt attack on religious liberty and a continuation of the targeting scandal that plagued the federal tax agency during the Obama era. Democrat leaders have remained silent. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told The Epoch Times…
Baker Jack Phillips—A Cultural Hero
Commentary Colorado baker Jack Phillips is a perpetual offender. He simply will not do. His offense? Unswervingly honoring his deeply held, and constitutionally protected, religious beliefs. We’ve all heard of Phillips and his travails. Leftist bullies have been tormenting him for years, beginning in 2012, when the Colorado Civil Rights Commission targeted him for refusing…
Packing the Supreme Court: An Attempt to Stamp out Religious Liberty?
Commentary If Democrats succeed in packing the U.S. Supreme Court with progressives, as is their wont, what freedoms now protected by a conservative majority will they first try to cancel? Gun ownership? “Deplorable” voices on social media? Citizen United’s free speech protections? So much to undo, so little time to do it, before losing control…
Religious Liberty and US Foreign Policy: No Longer the Guiding Principle?
Commentary Reproduced from Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China On March 30, US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, announced what some saw as a fundamental change in American foreign policy. The US, Blinken said presenting the Department of State’s 45th annual report on human rights in the world, will “repudiate the unbalanced…
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