Category: First Liberty Institute

Lawsuit: Woman Illegally Fired for Opposing Gender-Altering Treatments

A Michigan health care system is accused of wrongfully firing a health care worker who held “religious beliefs about gender and sexuality that are contrary to its agenda,” a federal lawsuit says. As The Epoch Times reported last week, former physician assistant Valerie Kloosterman had attempted to avoid suing her former employer, University of Michigan Health-West…


Faith Groups Seek Emergency High Court Stay on OSHA Mandate; GOP Lawmakers File Amicus Brief for Navy SEALS

Attorneys for nearly a dozen faith-based employers are asking the Supreme Court to  issue an emergency stay on enforcement of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate and to take the case for a full review by the nine justices. “Relief is warranted because the mandate seeks to issue sweeping non-workplace, public health measures. The Occupational Safety…


Faith Groups Seek Emergency High Court Stay on OSHA Mandate

Attorneys for nearly a dozen faith-based employers are asking the Supreme Court to  issue an emergency stay on enforcement of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate and to take the case for a full review by the nine justices. “Relief is warranted because the mandate seeks to issue sweeping non-workplace, public health measures. The Occupational Safety…


Kelly Shackelford: IRS Claims Christianity Is Political, Targets Nonprofits

The IRS recently denied the nonprofit status of a Christian organization by claiming that Christianity is tied to politics because the Bible’s “teachings are typically affiliated with” the Republican Party. Legal organization First Liberty Institute is pushing back, and by doing so is defending religious organizations against the threat of similar moves by the IRS….


IRS Denies Tax-Exemption to Texas Religious Group Because Prayer, Bible Reading Boost the Republican Party

An IRS official denied tax-exempt status to a Texas group that encourages church members to pray for state and national leaders regardless of their party affiliation because it benefits “the private interests of the [Republican] Party.” “You do not qualify as an organization described in IRS Section 501(c)(3). You engage in prohibited political campaign intervention,”…