“Civil libertarians must often remind government officials (and others) that if the First Amendment only protected the expression of popular and agreeable ideas, it would be totally unnecessary since those ideas would never be threatened by our democratic form of…

The government of the United Kingdom is planning to reform gender identity rules to make it easier for people to choose their own gender in law. Under plans being considered by ministers, adults will be able to change their birth…

“‘The first thing we have to do is give a voice to our Churches,’ some say. The real meaning of this type of expression is the desire for some influence in the political and parliamentary sphere and in the juridical…

Some United Nations agencies have long avoided mention of the world of faith and religion in most matters. But U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, a practicing Roman Catholic with a deep Christian faith, said that religious leaders can help in combating…

“To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.” Ernest Renan, (1823-1892). Source Reference Ernest Renan Quote

Visa is challenging small restaurants, cafés and food trucks to stop accepting cash. The credit card company announced in a news release this week it is offering $500,000 to 50 eligible U.S.-based eateries to go 100 percent cashless. Restaurants signing up can…

“The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties,…

The religious right, with a big boost from President Donald Trump, is close to effectively ending a 63-year-old law banning churches from endorsing or opposing political candidates. House Republicans have quietly inserted into a spending bill a provision that limits…

“You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger… Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed,and when it is…

Many Evangelicals have made a mistake when they made a deal with Donald Trump. “Vote for me,” he said, “and I will give you Supreme Court picks and abolish the Johnson Amendment.” Mr. Trump’s “tempting” offer is remarkably like another…

“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the…

A new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research found a significant generation gap in how Americans view morality. Most older Americans say right and wrong never change. Younger Americans—not so much. More than 6 in 10 of those older than 45…