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ACRU Supports Hobby Lobby Against ObamaCare Contraceptive Mandate

By |2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00January 28th, 2014|

“Individuals have Free Exercise rights with respect to their for-profit businesses.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 28, 2014) – The Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate unconstitutionally violates the religious freedom of a Christian family that owns a chain of craft stores and a chain of Christian bookstores, the American Civil Rights Union argues in a brief submitted today to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Mardel Stores Inc., David Green, et al. notes that the Green family’s refusal to offer insurance coverage of abortifacients to […]

Income Inequality

By |2023-03-10T08:04:39-05:00January 15th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 15, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year’s elections. Most of what’s said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, ill-informed. Much to their disgrace, economists focusing on measures of income inequality bring little light to the issue. Let’s look at it.

Income is a result of something. As such, results alone cannot establish whether there is fairness or justice. Take a simple example to make the point. Suppose Tom, […]

Why Economic Growth is Exponentially More Important Than Income Inequality

By |2014-01-15T12:50:06-05:00January 15th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published January 14, 2014 on Forbes.com.

In 1900, we had no airplanes, no computers, no cellphones, no internet. We had only rudimentary versions of cars, trucks, telephones, even cameras.

But in the last century, 1900 to 2000, as Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon report in their under appreciated work, It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, real per capita GDP in the U.S. grew by nearly 7 times, meaning the American standard of living grew by that much as well. The authors explain,

Supreme Court to Decide if Abortion Buffer Zones Violate Pro-Life Free Speech

By |2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00January 15th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 14, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

Members of American Civil Liberties Union like to bill themselves as the ultimate protectors of the First Amendment, defending hard-core pornography as “free speech” and even the possession of child pornography. Go ahead, ask them. They only oppose the “production” of that demonic product.

Even the ACLU has its limits beyond the usual commonly cited exceptions of crying “fire” falsely in a crowded theater or making threats of violence.

The ACLU has long been comfortable with the ultimate violence committed inside the […]

Militant Atheists' War on Christians and Christmas in 2013

By |2013-12-24T00:02:37-05:00December 24th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

This Christmas season is seeing those who deny the existence of God pressing forward with a militant secular agenda, one that is intolerant–often bitterly so–of Christians in America.

Set aside for a moment the blockbuster controversy regarding Phil Robertson and “Duck Dynasty,” which is driven by a visceral rejection of Biblical Christian views on sin and sexuality. The same hostility toward Christians who believe the Bible is the Word of God is on full display this Christmas season in other respects.

Pastor Alistair Begg–one of the most famous […]

Can the ACLU Force Catholic Hospitals to Perform Abortions?

By |2013-12-06T16:35:28-05:00December 6th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 5, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

The ACLU wants Catholic hospitals to practice medicine without morals.

The American Civil Liberties Union is so upset that a Michigan baby died just after being born that the group is suing the Catholic Church for not deliberately killing the child earlier.

In a lawsuit filed on Nov. 29 against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in U.S. District Court in Michigan, the ACLU contends that the church’s medical directives reflecting a pro-life stance against abortion resulted in negligent care for a woman with a troubled […]

Supreme Court Likely to Restore Freedom to Pray at Public Events

By |2020-04-23T21:52:40-04:00November 11th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 7, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Those seeking the right to pray at government events consistent with their religious beliefs seem poised for a major victory after the Nov. 6 oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Town of Greece v. Galloway.

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit are asking the Supreme Court to declare that faith-specific content in public prayers (which they call “sectarian” prayers) violates the Constitution, and so government bodies must tell pastors, priests, rabbis, and anyone else giving prayers that they cannot express any belief with which other people of faith might […]

ACRU Mentioned in Several Articles

By |2008-08-21T10:19:51-04:00August 21st, 2008|

On August 18th, the California Supreme Court ruled on Benitez v. North Coast. This case tests the Freedom of Religion Clause of the California Constitution on the issue of whether a physician has a constitutional right to refuse on religious grounds to perform a medical procedure for a patient because of the patient’s sexual orientation.

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus brief supporting North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group.

Unfortunately, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of Benitez, with Justice Joyce Kennard writing,

“A religious objector has no federal constitutional right to an exemption from a neutral and valid law of […]

The Voice Talks about the ACLU's Assault on Religion

By |2008-01-02T00:01:59-05:00January 2nd, 2008|

Jennifer LeClaire, a reporter for The Voice, has written a great article on the ACLU’s assault on religion.

ACRU Legal Counsel John Armor had the following comment for the article:

Organizations like the ACLU are using the constitution as a weapon against the expression of religion. The founders intended that government should not be in the business of promoting one religion over the other, not that the government should be hostile to the idea of religion.

John Armor on in Bozeman

By |2007-12-26T19:57:10-05:00December 26th, 2007|

John Armor will be on in Bozeman, MT on December 27, 2007 from 11:12-11:57am. He is talking to George Carter and the Valley News and Views Show on KMMS AM 1450. John will be talking about Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion and the assault on Christmas on the Oklahoma campus

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