Massachusetts’ highest court just blocked statues honoring police and firefighters because they’re “closely affiliated with a particular religion.”
No religiously-tied monument in America is safe if that logic holds.
My latest in @FDRLST: https://thefederalist.com/2026/09/01/massachusetts-court-says-town-cant-build-statues-of-christian-heroes-because-theyre-christian/
NEW: “A city honoring its police officers and firefighters with the patron saints those men and women have invoked for generations is not establishing a religion."
Director @BayerPicciotti responds to Massachusetts’ latest ruling and warns against the growing effort to scrub
NEW: "Suggesting that medieval saints anticipated and endorsed transgender ideology sits in direct tension with the guidance of the Church’s own shepherds."
Director @BayerPicciotti and @maryricehasson respond to the National Catholic Reporter’s promotion of “Transgender History
Why Catholics should reject the month and myth of “trangendered Saints”
Why Catholics should reject the month and myth of “trangendered Saints”
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Director @BayerPicciotti joined @AveAfternoon to discuss the attacks on religious liberty happening in Nicaragua under the Ortega regime.
Religious freedom is not a privilege granted by the government, but a fundamental right rooted in the recognition that faith and conscience stand beyond the state’s authority. 👇
Ortega’s War on the Church Reveals the Limits of Political Power
COMMENTARY: Nicaragua’s crackdown on Catholics shows why religious freedom is not a gift from the state — and ...
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.@AGToddBlanche is already putting parental rights front and center with updated religious liberty guidance.
Director @BayerPicciotti explains why parents’ right to direct the religious upbringing and education of their children is fundamental to religious liberty in @thehill.
.@ADFLegal and @NationalLegalFn have filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Johnson v. Fleming.
The petition argues that Virginia’s exclusion of students pursuing religious degrees from state grant aid is an unconstitutional religious test that violates
Director @BayerPicciotti explains how Virginia’s tuition assistance policy discriminates against soldiers pursuing theology degrees and threatens religious liberty.
Virginia’s Dangerous Catch-22 for Military Chaplains
COMMENTARY: ‘Johnson v. Fleming’ asserts that the state demands that National Guard chaplain candidates have a mas...
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Virginia requires National Guard chaplains to earn a theology degree, but refuses to provide tuition assistance that is available for other degrees.
Director @BayerPicciotti explains how this dangerous catch-22 threatens religious liberty in @NCRegister.
Virginia’s Dangerous Catch-22 for Military Chaplains
COMMENTARY: ‘Johnson v. Fleming’ asserts that the state demands that National Guard chaplain candidates have a mas...
www.ncregister.com
Listen: “We need to be clear that we allow for religious exemptions, but we need to make sure that they are tied to the individual conscience and not any kind of denominational affiliation.”
Director @BayerPicciotti discusses the University of Virginia’s health program rules on
WATCH: Why not display the Ten Commandments in classrooms?
Director @BayerPicciotti explains how these displays reflect the moral framework that shaped our founding documents and why the Supreme Court can protect that principle.
The ACLU wants the Supreme Court to revive the myth of a rigid “wall of separation” between church and state.
The Court has two clear paths to shut this down for good and affirm that the Constitution does not require hostility toward religion.
More from @BayerPicciotti in
A Virginia court case exposes a troubling question: Who gets to decide whether someone’s religious objection is sincere, the believer or a hospital committee?
Director @BayerPicciotti explains how religious liberty belongs to an individual, not a denomination’s checklist, in
NEW: "Religious freedom is not a courtesy that governments extend to the pious. It is a recognition that some loyalties run deeper than the state’s authority and were never the state’s to grant."
Director @BayerPicciotti discusses why religious freedom must be protected and
Director @BayerPicciotti joined @AveAfternoon to discuss how Texas is bringing faith back into the classroom through Ten Commandments displays and Bible stories.
