Advocates for Democratic China Tell Supreme Court That Protecting Donors’ Identities Is ‘Life and Death Issue’
A nonprofit U.S. group seeking democratic reforms in China asked the Supreme Court on March 1 to protect the identities of its members and donors because actions by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could have lethal consequences.
“The liberties that the First Amendment expressly guarantees depend on a vigorous protection of the auxiliary freedom of association. Blanket donor-disclosure regimes like California’s create an intolerable risk of exposure and thus severely abridge that freedom,” First Liberty Institute FLI) attorneys representing Washington-based Citizen Power Initiatives of China told the high court in an amicus curiae brief made available to The Epoch Times.
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House Republicans are rallying around a compromise bill that would add protections for religious organizations in addition to granting discrimination protections to LGBT citizens. The bill comes one day after House Democrats passed the Equality Act, which critics say infringes on religious liberty rights and is likely to fail in the Senate.
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NAMB trustees gather in prayer for Geoff Hammond and his wife, Debbie. Trustees unanimously approved Hammond as NAMB s new president in a March 21 meeting. | (Photo: NAMB)
A missions body within the Southern Baptist Convention has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling against the organization regarding the firing of a former state convention leader.
In 2017, the SBC North American Missions Board was sued by Will McRaney, the former executive director of Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware. McRaney claimed that NAMB officials had, among other things, made defamatory statements against him to get him fired from the convention.