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When the Tyranny of Abortion Rights Trump Religious Liberty
By Tamara Cochran Louris   |   06.23.16
For the past two decades, America’s slide down the slippery slope of atheist-flavored secular humanism has accelerated at breakneck speed. Once upon a time Dr. Francis Schaeffer and Dr. C. Everett Koop were scorned and ridiculed when they suggested such...
Nurse Loses Job Over Pro-Life Beliefs in Rockford
By Monte Larrick   |   06.15.16
A pro-life nurse is out of a job because of her religious beliefs, and now a law designed to protect her and others from discrimination is in peril. Governor Bruce Rauner could soon decide the fate of Illinois’ Healthcare Right...
So What’s the Plan Oh Mighty Men of God
06.07.16
There is a scene in the movie 1984 in which Winston is reminded of this statement that he wrote in his diary: “Freedom is the freedom to say 2 + 2 = 4.” An updated version might say, “Freedom is the freedom to call a man a man and a woman a woman.”
Unconscionable Anti-Life Bill on Gov. Rauner’s Desk
By Monte Larrick   |   06.04.16
It’s time to send a message to Governor Bruce Rauner, please veto a pro-abortion bill that would violate the rights of pro-life doctors, medical personnel and pregnancy care workers. Last week the Illinois House debated and passed SB 1564 by...
Religious Liberty and the Big Picture
By David E. Smith   |   05.19.16
My family and I recently had the opportunity to hear about the great work being done in South Sudan by a man named William Levi.  During his presentation, in which he detailed many of the projects underway in Borongole (a...
Leftist NY City Mayor Wants to Put Christians Out of Business
By Laurie Higgins   |   05.06.16
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging New Yorkers not to eat at Chick-fil-A because owner Dan Cathy believes that homoerotic acts are not moral and has donated money to organizations that share that belief. Although Mr. Cathy...
The Pride of Life in a Codpiece
By   |   04.23.16
As the bathroom wars continue to unfold, and as the advocates of totalitolerance continue to embrace the arts of coercion, as they continue to bombard us with ideas so fine they have to be mandatory, it has been natural for...
Religious Freedom by the Numbers
04.22.16
It’s remarkable, really. At the same time religious freedom appears both at a height of controversy in America and utterly collapsing in the Middle East, the world has at its fingertips volumes of research that affirm how good religious freedom is for every human on earth.
Dr. Eric Walsh Fired for His Religious Beliefs
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.21.16
While another case of religious discrimination rears its bigoted head, liberals with unseeing eyes and venomous tongues mock any suggestion that Christians are facing persecution. Worse still they virulently oppose the types of laws that would protect religious liberty—you know,...
The Sickening Hypocrisy of Starbucks and Apple
By Dr. Michael L. Brown   |   04.20.16
She was only 17 years-old when she died. Her father cut out her tongue and burned her alive. What was her crime, and why did this man kill his own daughter in the most horrific imaginable way? He was a...
‘Progressives’ Demonize Christianity as a Global Menace, Ignoring the Great Progress It Ignited
04.20.16
Can you believe anyone even organizes a “white privilege” conference these days — seven years into Barack Obama’s presidency? Well, you’d better believe it, and you should also know that at least one of the speakers at this conference is militantly Christophobic.
Kim Davis Finally Gets Religious Freedom Accommodation to Keep Name Off Gay Marriage Licenses
04.18.16
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed a bill Wednesday that removes the names and titles of county clerks from marriage licenses, giving legal "finality" to the religious accommodation that Rowan County clerk Kim Davis was looking for.
“Progressives” and Religious Liberty
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.16.16
“Progressives” who view the cultural embrace of deviant sexuality as good seek to eradicate the last cultural obstacle to its universal embrace: biblical truth. Since that’s not possible, they seek instead to eradicate religious liberty by incrementally narrowing the cultural...
Three Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Rulings Christians Should Know About
By Andrew Willis   |   04.12.16
In what is already a controversial session amidst the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on many cases in the upcoming months that will have wide reaching effects in American life. Here are three decisions which Christians should know about.
IFI’s Higgins Discusses Religious Freedom Versus LGBT Agenda on WBBM Radio
By David E. Smith   |   04.11.16
Last week, IFI's own Laurie Higgins recorded an interview with Craig Dellimore for his weekly "At Issue" program to discuss religious liberty verses the radical LGBT agenda. Make no mistake, this type of mainstream media exposure -- an uninterrupted half hour examination of the issues from a conservative perspective -- is exceedingly rare. While the media usually misrepresents orthodox Christians and how we live our faith in the public square, this was an amazing opportunity to elaborate on the Judeo-Christian principles we seek to uphold.
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