Read Our Open Letter to Fayetteville, NC About Their Youth Curfew

Read Our Open Letter to Fayetteville, NC About Their Youth Curfew

To the City of Fayetteville:  The National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) is a non-profit that upholds youth rights nationwide. The proposed youth curfew in Fayetteville will implement first-of-its-kind laws that restrict suspended students from being out of their homes during the business day from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, and during the nighttime curfew hours….

The Right to Refuse Church

The Right to Refuse Church

In his 1776 manifesto, “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine established the national project of “securing freedom and property to all men, and above all things, the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience.” For Paine, it was all but common sense that people are free, and thus, free to choose their beliefs. In…