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Click here to view original article www.cnn.com Louisiana House Bill 71 has passed the state Senate 30-8 and the House 79-16. It requires public schools in the state to display the Ten Commandments. krisanapong detraphiphat/Moment RF/Getty Images Editor’s Note: Eli Federman has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today,…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com Editor’s Note: Eli Federman has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Reuters and other publications. Follow him on X @ elifederman . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. See more opinion at CNN. This year, the Jewish holiday…
Click here to view original article local12.com (AP Photo/Jill Zeman Bleed) … TOPICS: Louisiana Ten Commandments Schools Bill Public Supreme Court Religion Education (THE CONVERSATION/AP) – Louisiana is not a stranger to controversy over religion in schools. In 2023, it joined almost 20 states that require or allow officials in…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com Credit: mangpor2004/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 6, 2024 / 17:52 pm An Oklahoma judge this week said a lawsuit challenging the nation’s first religious charter school can proceed, a victory for opponents wishing to halt public funding of the Catholic institution. Oklahoma County District…
Click here to view original article www.ncronline.org Preschool district court ruling, Denver This is an undated photo of the Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse in Denver. A federal judge ruled June 4, 2024, that Colorado violated the law by excluding Catholic preschools from participating in the state’s universal preschool program.…
Click here to view original article www.thenorthwestern.com Our reaction as a local government to a church wanting to help the homeless should be thanks, security assistance and social services, not implied threats of citations. The concept of a “ separation of church and state ” is first known to have…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com The 5-foot-tall stone slab bearing the Ten Commandments near the Texas State Capitol. A challenge to the display reached the Supreme Court. AP Photo/Harry Cabluck (The Conversation) — Louisiana is not a stranger to controversy over religion in schools. In 2023, it joined…
Click here to view original article www.cnn.com The Louisiana state capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on April 4, 2023. CNN — Schools in Louisiana could soon be required by law to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The state House of Representatives gave final passage to House Bill 71…
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…