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  • … or constraints.” In other words, you have negative liberty when there aren’t external factors (such as laws) restraining … Hawaii for vacation, he could go there so long as no one was actively preventing him from doing so. That absence of … seeks the good of our neighbor and all Americans, because when goodness flourishes, freedom flourishes. Image Neal …
  • … can be discussed or debated. In the 1960s, the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley was launched to protest restrictions on free speech and … In 2022, ADF’s then-General Counsel Kristen Waggoner was harassed, intimidated, and shouted down by protesters …
  • … So they burned his house down in 2020, and he was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death. While his conviction was eventually overturned because he was not afforded a lawyer, he has been ordered to a retrial …
  • … from the government. But in Vermont, that right was threatened by a policy that was enforced to exclude certain religious schools from a … their quest to ensure that the right to religious freedom was affirmed in school choice. What was the policy at issue …
  • … Christian small-business owner from upstate New York. Who was Daniel Burritt? Daniel Burritt was a devout Christian business owner who owned and operated … of Gouverneur, New York. As a Christian, Daniel knew it was his job to spread the Gospel message of Jesus as …
  • … that churches meet in person for corporate worship. So when Washington began to reopen in June following the first … to 25 percent capacity or 50 individuals, whichever was less. Eventually, churches in some parts of the state … simply doesn’t permit Governor Inslee to assume the worst when people meet to worship but assume the best when those …
  • … Teacher to ‘Put Her Beliefs Aside’ Vivian Geraghty was forced to resign because she wanted to refrain from … The right to freely exercise your religion doesn’t end when you enter the workforce. But some school boards are … issues. Vivian Geraghty experienced this problem firsthand when Jackson Memorial Middle School instructed her to …
  • … essential freedom to peacefully practice our religion. But when COVID-19 hit the United States and lockdowns began, some … Such double standards violate the First Amendment. Even when implementing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 or … capacity or 50 individuals (although eventually the cap was raised to 200 in some parts of the state) while giving …
  • … The Court reaffirmed the freedom of conscience in 2020 when it ruled that pro-life nuns could not be forced to … One pharmacist in Minnesota found that out the hard way when he stood by his conscience and declined to fill a … at Aitkin Pharmacy in Minnesota. For most of the time he was at Aitkin, George served as the head pharmacist. George …
  • … a 100-foot radius of places offering vaccines. If a person was within 100 feet of one of these vaccine sites, the law … and Prevention’s recommendation for a safe distance was six feet. And the law even included an exemption for … 2022, a federal district court ruled that Right to Life was likely to succeed on its claim that California violated …