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Click here to view original article www.courthousenews.com SAN DIEGO (CN) — Religious schools in California have to abide by the state’s requirements for day care and educational facilities — including health and safety requirements related to Covid-19 masking — a federal judge ruled this week. “As noted by defendants, and…
Click here to view original article www.stltoday.com Hands folded in prayer on a Holy Bible Students across the country are facing increasing problems with their mental health. Some lawmakers think they’ve found a creative way to help them. Last year, Texas enacted a new law that would allow public schools…
Click here to view original article www.sandiegouniontribune.com The two federal lawsuits are part of a recent wave of such cases nationwide, encouraged by a Supreme Court seen as friendly to them California has long had a hard ban preventing public school funding from going toward any sectarian instruction or sectarian…
Click here to view original article www.metroweekly.com Photo: Kohji Asakawa, via Pixabay A federal appeals court ruled that Montgomery County Public Schools doesn’t have to offer an “opt-out” for religious parents who object to lessons incorporating books with LGBTQ characters. Three sets of parents — Muslim, Christian, and Jewish —…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com Parental and religious freedom rights advocates, including a group of Muslim parents, on June 6, 2023, protest a Maryland school system policy that removes parents’ authority to opt their children out of homosexual and transgender coursework. | Credit: The Religious Freedom Institute CNA…
Click here to view original article www.nwaonline.com RALEIGH, N.C. — A Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced his marriage on social media a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a judge’s earlier decision. A panel of the 4th…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced his marriage on social media a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a judge’s earlier decision. A panel of the…
Click here to view original article lawandcrime.com Left: Teacher Lonnie Billard discusses being fired from his teaching job because he posted about his plans to get married. Right: A sign for Charlotte Catholic High School in Charlotte, NC is shown. (Screengrabs via WCNC). A federal appeals court revoked a gay…
Click here to view original article apnews.com RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced his marriage on social media a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a judge’s earlier decision. A panel of the…
Click here to view original article www.newsobserver.com The courts must stay out of Charlotte Catholic High School’s decision to fire a beloved theater teacher for being gay and posting about his engagement on Facebook, according to a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday. A panel of three judges…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com Editor’s note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of America. Amendments are part of the Constitution. The…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com Anglican nuns from Sisterhood of Saint Mary (photographed with bishops from the Anglican Church of North America’s Diocese of the Living Word) are among those suing the state of New York for requiring that they cover abortion in their health plans. | Credit:…
Click here to view original article baptistnews.com A sex discrimination lawsuit filed against Moody Bible Institute can proceed after a federal appeals court ruled the litigation poses no threat to the Chicago school’s constitutionally protected religious autonomy. The evangelical institution said it fired communications instructor Janay Garrick in 2017 for…
Click here to view original article thetablet.org Holy Family Cathedral in downtown Tulsa, Okla., is pictured in an undated photo. (Photo: Diocese of Tulsa) PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After presenting an oral argument to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a legal representative for the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board is “very hopeful”…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a case that could pry open the door to publicly funded religious charter schools across the country. The state’s virtual charter school board approved a proposal to establish the school in a narrow vote last summer.…
Click here to view original article www.nysun.com Families are ‘better off with more choices,’ backers of the school tell the Sun. Opponents say it tramples on the separation of church and state. Oral arguments are set for Tuesday morning after the state’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the Oklahoma…
Click here to view original article www.christianpost.com A previous year’s "Jesus in Daley Plaza" display, which is being sponsored this year by the Thomas More Society, Tapestry Fellowship, City First Foundation, as well as Karl and Nancy Fritz, who designed and built this year’s cross. | Thomas More Society A…
Click here to view original article wausaupilotandreview.com by Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner March 14, 2024 In a 4-3 opinion issued Thursday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a Wisconsin Catholic Charities organization and four nonprofits affiliated with the agency can’t bow out of the Wisconsin unemployment insurance system on religious…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com The entrance to the Wisconsin Supreme Court chambers in the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond) MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Exemptions that allow religious organizations to avoid paying Wisconsin’s unemployment tax don’t apply to a Catholic charitable organization because its on-the-ground…
Click here to view original article abcnews.go.com A ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court is raising the bar for religions to show that their charity arms deserve tax exemptions 1:13 National headlines from ABC News Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. MADISON, Wis. — Exemptions that allow religious…
Click here to view original article www.courthousenews.com MADISON, Wis. (CN ) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided on Thursday that a group of nonprofit organizations affiliated with a Catholic diocese are not exempt from paying the state unemployment insurance tax. In a 4-3 decision split along ideological lines, the court’s…
Click here to view original article www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com Sweeping climate change disclosure laws recently enacted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom may never take effect if business groups prevail in a new federal lawsuit challenging the legislation. But absent an injunction, the law remains in effect, which means thousands of companies are…
Click here to view original article www.alreporter.com The recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court, which classifies frozen embryos as children under state law, is not merely a legal precedent; it is a societal earthquake that shakes the very foundations of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments and, more broadly, personal…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com In a recent Idaho Statesman guest opinion , Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador complained that those who criticized him for placing Idaho’s legal affairs into the hands of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) were “whiners.” The opinion boasted that ADF’s legal services were…
Click here to view original article www.indystar.com Madeleine Parrish The Arizona Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would allow the Ten Commandments to be posted and read aloud in public school classrooms. Senate Bill 1151, sponsored by Sen. Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, would add the Ten Commandments to a list…