Religious Liberty

The bogus birth control controversy

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 February 2012

President Obama’s mandate requiring free access to contraception with virtually no employer exemption is at core a consitutional threat to religious liberty, not a heated debate about contraception and Church teaching. However, it quickly turned into that.

Celebrating the ‘American Experiment’

Sheila Liaugminas | 03 July 2011

The nation celebrates its founding, a birthday, historical beginnings of liberty and self-determination and all that. But mainly it’s picnics and barbeques and fireworks.

Religious liberty not guaranteed

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 December 2010

For years we’ve seen signs that the constitutionally protected freedom of religion is under new and real threats. The temptation may have been to think ‘Yeah….but’…and not really believe it could become in America what it is in oppressive countries. If so, think again. (After all, remember…the Constitution was intended and worded to protect life. Look where that went.)

Illinois lame duckers

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 December 2010

They’re trying to get out of town or at least the General Assembly by Thursday, so state reps returned to the floor Wednesday night to race through remaining business. One of those bills was the controversial civil unions legislation. Apparently, all the fervor expressed in an outpouring of citizen appeals to legislators didn’t match the force exerted by party heavyweights on those legislators once it came time to vote.

Serious threat to religious freedom?

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 July 2010

It’s being passed off as a matter of semantics. That’s what they all say, when ‘they’ have subversive motives. Like changing the way we think about things and eventually the way we behave by simply changing the langauge that describes and defines it.

A favoured religion

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 November 2009

A newly appointed federal judge President Obama named to the Seventh Circuit isn’t getting much media scrutiny for a controversial ruling he made that, effectively, makes prayers to Allah politically correct and perfectly acceptable in the public square, but not prayers invoking the name of Jesus Christ.

The 4,700 word declaration

Sheila Liaugminas | 20 November 2009

Today at noon, a group of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders and scholars [released] the Manhattan Declaration, which addresses the sanctity of life, traditional marriage and religious liberty.