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The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a case over whether a wedding website designer can decline to provide services to same-sex couples under Colorado’s anti-discrimination law. Lori Smith, a Christian graphic artist and webpage designer, is seeking to expand her services to create webpages for weddings but argues…
Anti-abortion activists participate in the 49th annual March for Life as they march past the US Supreme Court on January 21 in Washington, DC. In the past few years, the Supreme Court danced around the question of whether religious conservatives have a constitutional right to violate anti-discrimination laws — and…
Visitors walk outside the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new clash involving religion and the rights of LGBTQ people in the case of a Colorado web designer who says her religious beliefs…
Visitors walk outside the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new clash involving religion and the rights of LGBTQ people in the case of a Colorado web designer who says her religious beliefs…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear an appeal from a Colorado web designer who objects to providing services for same-sex marriages, returning the justices to a battleground in the culture wars pitting claims of religious freedom against laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.…
By Tim Taylor Missouri Representative of the 48th District Several “hot” topics were addressed this week during our three days of being at the capitol. Session for the week was canceled for Thursday because of the impending snow storm. We, in the House, gave first-round approval to two bills designed…
California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger is a leading contender to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. Leondra Kruger has been a star in the legal profession for more than a decade. Though some Republicans have railed against President Biden’s pledge to name a Black woman, calling…
Leondra Kruger has been a star in the legal profession for more than a decade. Though some Republicans have railed against President Biden’s pledge to name a Black woman, calling it a "quota," when it comes to qualifications, Kruger has all the bells and whistles if Biden names her to…
Last week, Huntington High and three other area schools arranged assemblies during school time for an evangelical minister to present a religious program to recruit students. This was inappropriate and illegal and even more disturbing because it involved the coercion of students and the schools’ inability to respect their religious…
Leondra R. Kruger argued 12 cases at the Supreme Court, representing the United States in both Republican and Democratic administrations, and one of them is receiving special scrutiny as President Biden decides whether to nominate her to the bench. The Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church v.…
[co-author: Jenny Lee]* In 2019, we reported on the case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District involving a football coach at Bremerton High School in Washington state who was placed on administrative leave by his public school district for praying on the football field after games. At the time, the…
Blasphemy and Apostasy Punished; Winter Olympics — Thawing of China’s Treatment of Religious Minorities? China May Restrict Religious Expression Following Olympics; Streaming Online a Godsend for Churches and the Isolated; City Restricts Church Homeless Outreach Blasphemy and Apostasy Punished Ken Mayer is licensed under CC BY 2.0 In scores of…
In this Oct. 16, 2015 file photo, former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, obscured at center, is surrounded by Centralia High School football players in Bremerton, Wash., after they took a knee with him and prayed following their game against Bremerton. Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun via AP…
serjopak/iStock image MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It : another do-over for Sweetcakes by Melissa. Last week, an appeals court in Oregon ordered the state to reconsider damages awarded in a discrimination case. It all arose nine years ago when two women sued…
Four anti-abortion bills have been introduced into the state legislature including a Texas copycat bill (HR2001, HR2483, SB1044, SB1164). The issue is not whether a state has the constitutional authority to protect “unborn life” but whether women, who have been born, have a constitutional right to make decisions about their…
Main speakers invited to “Law of Peace in Heaven and on Earth,” the 8th anniversary of the civilian-led peace agreement in Mindanao, Philippines, after 40 years of conflict between Catholic and Islam communities. Jan 24th was declared the HWPL Peace Day in 2014. National Leaders are urged to support a…
A challenge by two Ontario churches of public health restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic begins Monday, with their lawyers arguing the measures violate the right to freedom of religion and assembly under the Constitution. The proceedings from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in St. Thomas will be before Justice…
Lawyers for Waterloo’s Trinity Bible Chapel, Aylmer’s Church of God begin arguments in St. Thomas court Members of the Aylmer Church of God spent time inside their church building in defiance of Ontario’s emergency orders. Church of God is one of two churches involved in a constitutional challenge of the…
City Hall in Boston. The city refused to fly the flag of Camp Constitution, a Christian organization, saying that it would amount to government endorsement of religion.Credit…Ted Shaffrey/Associated Press WASHINGTON — The City of Boston, which refused to let a private group raise a Christian flag in front of its…
An Oregon appeals court told a state agency Wednesday to reconsider its order for a Christian couple to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding on grounds that the state’s actions did "not reflect … neutrality toward religion." However, the panel upheld its…
PMG FILE PHOTO – Aaron and Melissa Klein behind a sign for their former bakery. The Portland Tribune is a KOIN 6 media partner PORTLAND, Ore. ( Portland Tribune ) — The Oregon Court of Appeals has added a twist in its latest decision in the long-running case of a…
Colorado baker faces another lawsuit over LGBTQ wedding cakes 00:00 00:0002:54GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay Two Christian bakers in Oregon who faced a $135,000 fine for refusing to bake a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding in 2011 received a partial victory in court Wednesday. While the…
Having talked a lot about being a Christian and church life, perhaps I also need to point out some salient issues involving chaplains. When I was a chaplain for the Bella Vista Police Department, I knocked on one door and introduced myself as a chaplain. The person at the door…
The Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. Photo: Bing Guan/Bloomberg News The California Court of Appeal has opened a new front in the legal war over religious exemptions. In Bixler v. Church of Scientology , the court ruled in favor of former members of the church who allege that they…
FILE – This June 8, 2021 photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19…