Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2013Today, a U.S. District Court Judge in Oklahoma, Timothy DeGiusti, issued a preliminary injunction against the federal governments HHS mandate after GuideStone, the financial services arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, entered into suit seeking relief against the law. Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elizabeth Bristow, 615-782-8409 or Dan Darling, 615-782-8413 [email protected] NASHVILLE, Tenn.—During a recent interview on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Russell D. Moore, addressed the criticism that Phil Robertson, star of A&E’s Duck Dynasty, is receiving for his comments on homosexuality in a recent article for GQ magazine. “Suggesting that people who hold …

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WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 14, 2013A U.S. District Court Judge, Clark Waddoups, declared parts of Utahs polygamy law as unconstitutional on Friday in a case involving the Brown family from TLCs reality show, Sister Wives. Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention reacts to the ruling: This …

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WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 13, 2013Joined by public policy and religious liberty advocates, Robert P. George was presented the 2013 John Leland Religious Liberty Award today at the U.S. House of Representatives. George, who serves as McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, confronted the Obama …

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WASHINGTON, D.C.The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in the Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius case, a much anticipated case that pits religious liberty versus a provision of the Affordable Care Act known as the Health and Human Services Mandate. Russell D. Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission reacts …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE, TENN.Rev. H. Ray Newman Sr., a trustee of the Southern Baptist Conventions Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and executive director of the Georgia Citizen Action Project, died today at the age of 69 after being recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Newman also served as pastor of Macedonia Community Baptist …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 23, 2013The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and GuideStone Financial Resources stand together in opposition to a ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb of the Western District of Wisconsin, who ruled unconstitutional a provision in US tax code that allows for ministers to deduct their housing allowance. …

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Washington, D.C., Oct. 22, 2013Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, was featured in a front cover story of todays Wall Street Journal that describes his leadership in moving evangelicals beyond current culture wars to a convictional kindness that’s “winsome and emphatic.” In the piece, written …

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