Cornerstone Blog
At Cornerstone, our heart is to educate and speak out on critical issues impacting the lives of families in the Granite State. Here’s the latest Cornerstone commentary. We hope you’ll take a few minutes and read what we have to say.
Legislative Update: Week of June 2, 2025
Senate to Vote on Right to Try This Week his Thursday, the New Hampshire Senate will vote on HB 701, a right to try expansion that would give terminally ill patients greater access to next generation treatments in development. The bill has already passed in the NH House. By incorporating
Legislative Update: 05/26/2025
House Passes Dangerous Discriminatory Church Bill This week, the House unfortunately passed SB 291, a bill that, in its current amended form, will actually remove vital tax exemptions for several churches. SB 291 was originally a positive bill to alleviate the unfair taxing of churches and enable them to help solve the
NH House Votes to Weaken Church Tax Exemptions
Churches were failed by the House yesterday in the session on Thursday, May 22. Senate bill 291, an act relative to the religious use of land property tax exemption, was a key vote that may not only cost NH churches their current tax freedoms, but may also worsen their
New Hampshire Should Stop Being Anti-Family
This op-ed was originally published in the Manchester Union Leader May 23, 2025. Think New Hampshire is pro-family? Think again. Many NH communities are actively working to keep families and their dreaded children out. A NH House member from Weare recently shared a letter on X sent to him
Legislative Update: 05/19/2025
Help Protect Churches from Unfair Taxes & Discrimination The New Hampshire House is currently considering SB 291, a bill that, in its current amended form, will remove vital tax exemptions for several churches. While the original bill sought to make a positive impact for churches, the amended SB 291 will do much more harm than
Legislative Update: 05/12/2025
Senate to Vote on Right to Try Legislation This Week Senate to Vote on Right to Try Legislation This WeekThe New Hampshire Senate is currently considering HB 701, a right to try expansion that would give terminally ill patients greater access to next generation treatments in development. Highlight: Exclusive Panel
Legislative Update 05/05/2025
Help Protect Churches from Unfair Taxes & Discrimination Last week, the New Hampshire House Ways and Means Committee heard testimony on SB 291, a bill that, in its original form, would have expanded churches’ tax exemption to cover housing on church property that falls into one of these categories: Additionally, SB
Rep. Lisa Mazur: Dying Patients Need Broader Right to Try Experimental Treatments
This op-ed was originally published in the Union Leader April 29, 2025. New Hampshire is on the cusp of becoming a leader in a patient’s “right to try” by providing them with nation-leading access to potentially life-saving experimental treatments for terminal illnesses through passage of HB 701, a bill I
Legislative Update: 04/28/2025
Ask Senate to Support Patients’ Right to Try Last week, the Senate HHS Committee heard powerful testimony on the right to try expansion that would give terminally ill patients greater access to treatments in development. The bill is now in the Senate. By providing greater legal protections for patients
Life-Saving Legislation: Resources on HB 701 “Right-to-try”
Rep. Lisa Mazur’s HB 701 will legally address consent and civil liability to allow dying patients in NH to access new forms of potentially life-saving treatment if passed. This right-to-try law makes it possible for terminally ill patients to try new paths of healing without worrying doctors and lawyers
Closing the Gap: How HB 614 Can Protect New Hampshire Liberties
This op-ed by Cornerstone’s Isabella Peters was originally published in Granite Grok on 3/25/2025. Growing up homeschooled in New Hampshire meant that after I learned my “ABC’s” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” my parents quickly taught me the “Preamble Song” by Schoolhouse Rock!. If you’re not familiar with it,
Cornerstone Brings Landmark Constitutional Rights Case to NH Supreme Court
When a student shared his belief that there are only two genders while riding the school bus, it didn’t just spark an argument—it ignited a legal battle that Cornerstone is now taking to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The outcome could set a precedent impacting the constitutional protections of
