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  • Christian women discuss work in ERLC webinar
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, April 23, 2020 (2 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Panelists discussed how Christian women should approach work from a biblical perspective, especially during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in a first-of-its-kind webinar sponsored by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

    The online conversation -- titled "Christian Women at Work: Working From Home" -- took place April 21. Read More

  • ERLC providing resources during coronavirus crisis
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, March 20, 2020 (2 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is providing ongoing content addressing issues related to church ministry, life in isolation and the intersection of church and state during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

    The ERLC -- which offers new resources nearly daily at erlc.com/covid19 -- is doing so "to help pastors navigate new and challenging dynamics and equip Christians for this ever-evolving situation," said Daniel Darling, the ERLC's vice president for communications. "We believe Southern Baptists are ready to serve our most vulnerable neighbors in a variety of ways. Read More

  • Pro-lifers praise court's support of Protect Life Rule
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, February 28, 2020 (2 years ago)

    SAN FRANCISCO (BP) -- Pro-life advocates have praised a decision by a typically liberal federal appeals court to uphold the Trump administration's Protect Life Rule and thereby cut funding for the country's leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

    In a 7-4 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in favor of a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation that eliminates Title X federal family planning funds for organizations that perform or promote abortions. Ruling "en banc" or as a full court, the Ninth Circuit -- often regarded as the country's most liberal federal appeals court -- rejected the challenges to the regulation and overturned preliminary injunctions by three federal judges in different states. Read More

  • SBC Executive Committee chairman names study task force
    by BP Staff, posted Thursday, February 27, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- SBC Executive Committee chairman Mike Stone has named the six members of a study task force that was authorized by the group at their February 2020 meeting last week. Read More

  • ERLC to aid pro-life cause in Northern Ireland
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, February 27, 2020 (2 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission announced Thursday (Feb. 27) a new initiative to help churches in Northern Ireland in their response to the legalization of abortion in that country.

    Abortion became legal Oct. 22, 2019, for the first time in Northern Ireland's history, and the country's new abortion regulations will take effect April 1. The British Parliament approved an amendment in July to decriminalize abortion in the country, which is part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland's legislative body -- which had not functioned for three years because of the deep division between the country's two political parties -- failed to block the new law by the October deadline. Read More

  • ERLC lauds ruling in favor of Pensacola cross
    by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, February 25, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    ATLANTA (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention's religious freedom entity has commended a federal appeals court's decision that a cross on public land in Pensacola, Fla., does not violate the First Amendment.

    The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled Feb. 19 a cross originally erected in 1941 in Pensacola's Bayview Park is constitutional based on a 2019 opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel reversed a previous decision by the 11th Circuit Court, holding in light of the high court's ruling on a similar display in Maryland that "the cross's presence on city property doesn't violate" the First Amendment clause that prohibits government establishment of religion. Read More

  • SBC Executive Committee creates ERLC study task force
    by Jonathan Howe, posted Tuesday, February 18, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee voted Tuesday (Feb. 18) to create a study task force to "review the past and present activities" of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC).

    The ERLC is tasked with helping churches understand the moral demands of the Gospel and public policy as well as promoting religious liberty on behalf of Southern Baptists. The Executive Committee action (full text below) comes in response to "ongoing concerns" cited by EC members, state leaders and other Southern Baptists that the ERLC is not adequately fulfilling its Convention-approved ministry assignments. Read More

  • House drops deadline for ERLC-opposed ERA
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, February 14, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to rescind a deadline established nearly 50 years ago for a constitutional amendment a Southern Baptist Convention entity says would threaten the sanctity of human life and freedom of conscience.

    The House voted 232-183 in an almost party-line roll call to remove the deadline set by Congress in 1972 for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a controversial proposal that failed to gain ratification by three-fourths of the states in the allotted time. When Congress approved the ERA, it established a seven-year deadline for ratification by the states. Congress later extended the deadline three more years, but proponents achieved passage in only 35 of the 38 states needed before time expired in 1982. Read More

  • ERLC agenda: Working on multiple tracks in 2020
    by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, February 11, 2020 (2 years ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission plans in 2020 to continue its work with not only Congress but the Trump administration and the states on priority issues such as abortion and religious freedom.

    The ERLC released its annual Legislative Agenda in early February in the face of another year of a divided legislative branch. Democrats control the House of Representatives and Republicans hold the majority in the Senate. Read More