National Religious Broadcasters (NRB)
Craig Parshall, Senior Vice-President and General Counsel
National Religious Broadcasters, founded in 1944, is an association representing the free speech interests of Christian communicators, including television, radio, and Internet broadcasters, as well as Christian publishing companies, churches with a media outreach, Christian broadcast programmers, preaching and teaching ministries, and faith-based charity and humanitarian organizations. NRB’s membership also includes more than a dozen Christian colleges and Bible schools. Craig Parshall heads NRB’s Office of General Counsel and handles both internal legal issues and external legal, regulatory, and constitutional issues. He is also the Director of NRB’s John Milton Project for Free Speech. The following is from June 12, 2012, testimony during hearings before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on “Equality at Work: The Employment Non-Discrimination Act.” I am appearing today to voice NRB’s opposition to S. 811, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2011 (ENDA). We oppose S. 811 because, among other reasons: (1) it generally illustrates the kind of unaccommodating…
