New Effort Launched to Protect Rights of Churches

Thu, Apr. 15 2010
By Jennifer Riley
Christian Post Reporter

A Christian legal group has launched a new effort aimed at protecting churches from excessive and unconstitutional government intrusion.

Launched Wednesday, Alliance Defense Fund’s Church Project provides legal information to pastors and ministry leaders on how to defend their religious freedom in America as well as practical guidelines on issues such as public funding and hiring policies.

“Pastors and churches shouldn’t live in fear of being punished or penalized by the government. That’s exactly why the Constitution protects religious freedom,” says ADF senior counsel Kevin Theriot, who heads the Church Project.

But these days, pastors and church leaders are being pressured to be silent on moral issues such as life, liberty, marriage and the family. Government officials from the local to federal level are “determined to muzzle” church leaders who proclaim the biblical views on these issues, ADF contends. the rest