WASHINGTON – Linda Massey opposes gay marriage. But she was incensed last summer to see that Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk, was refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. “If the ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law: whether businesses may use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover ...

Reproductive rights advocates are eyeing a change in state law that would no longer allow medical providers to deny a patient reproductive health care based on a religious or conscientious objection.

DENVER (AP) A pair of Colorado cases locally dubbed the "Cake Wars" have added a new twist to the fight over LGBT discrimination and religious objections playing out across the U.S. In one dispute, a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A rule allowing Arkansas counselors to refer patients to another provider over religious objections is advancing, sparking criticism that the move could deny mental health ...

A test of Indiana's near-total abortion ban on religious-freedom grounds may now proceed through a trial court, as the Indiana Supreme Court decided Tuesday to let a lower court's preliminary ...

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory vetoed Thursday a religious exemption bill that would allow some court officials to avoid gay marriage duties.His decision, announced hours after lawmakers gave final ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana House approved by a wide margin Monday a proposal strengthening protections for religious objections in state law that opponents say could provide legal cover for ...

Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday shelved a divisive religious objections bill pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal that has thrust the state into the national debate about where religious freedoms end and the ...

In Tuesday's Hoffman v. Westcott, the Court denied a stay of execution; Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have granted a stay, but didn't write an opinion; and Justice Gorsuch dissented, ...

Explicitly sectarian religious messages for Christmas on official government social media accounts drew complaints from advocates for church-state separation.