Free speech now: First Amendment in the 21st Century
ADF attorney, Spiked editor, and other panelists to address assault on freedom of speech, press, religion
Attorney sound bite: Gregory S. Baylor
WHAT: Religious freedom forum: “The First Amendment in the 21st Century: Reinvigorating Old Rights for New Times”
WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 from 1 p.m.–4:30 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Newseum Institute, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, or watch live stream
WASHINGTON – Alliance Defending Freedom, Spiked, and the Acton Institute are co-sponsoring a First Amendment forum at the Newseum Institute Thursday. Three different panels of experts will explore the troubles afflicting core First Amendment freedoms: speech, press, and religion. Media are invited to attend and/or watch the livestream coverage. For press credentials, members of the media should RSVP to Bob Trent at [email protected].ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor will participate as a panelist and address the current assault on religious freedom.
“Americans of all faiths should be concerned with the extreme positions the Obama administration and many activist groups have taken to dramatically decrease religious freedom,” said Baylor. “We must defend our God-given freedoms against those who would seek to take them away.”
The panel sessions will include the following:
- Is the First Amendment Enough? The Crisis of Freedom on Campuses and Beyond
- Press Freedom after Charlie Hebdo: Should there be any Limits to Offensiveness?
- Freedom of Religion: The Forgotten Liberty?
- Brendan O’Neill, editor, Spiked; author, “A Duty to Offend”
- Nick Gillespie, editor, Reason.com and Reason.tv
- Greg Lukianoff, president, FIRE; author, “Freedom from Speech”
- David L. Hudson, Jr., scholar, Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center; law professor and author
- Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO, National Constitution Center
- Michael C. Moynihan, columnist, Daily Beast; host, Vice News
- Wendy Kaminer, author, lawyer, and civil libertarian
- Edwina Rogers, CEO, Secular Policy Institute
- Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president, Acton Institute
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.
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ABOUT Gregory S. Baylor
Gregory S. Baylor serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he is the director of the Center for Religious Schools and senior counsel with the Center for Public Policy. Since joining ADF in 2009, Baylor has focused on defending and advancing the religious freedom of faith-based educational institutions through advice, education, legislative and public advocacy, and representation in disputes. He has testified about religious liberty issues three times before congressional committees. Greg earned his Juris Doctor in 1990 from Duke University School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif, with high honors, and served on the editorial board of the Duke Law Journal. He received his bachelor’s degree in Honors English in 1987 from Dartmouth College. Following graduation from law school, he served as law clerk to the Hon. Jerry E. Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. He practiced labor and employment law at two large international law firms for three years before joining the staff of Christian Legal Society’s Center for Law and Religious Freedom, where he served for 15 years prior to joining ADF.