Click here to view full article at www.nbcnews.com Judaism is not a race. But Jewish people can be targeted for racism. That may seem like a contradiction. But a recent ruling by U.S. Magistrate Mark Hornsby of Louisiana updated anti-discrimination laws in the state. In doing so, Hornsby has potentially…
Freedom From Religion Foundation Sues to Stop City Council Members From Opening Public Meetings With Lord’s Prayer
Click here to view full article at christiannews.net PARKERSBURG, W. Va. — One of the nation’s most conspicuous Church-State separation groups has filed a lawsuit against a city in West Virginia in an effort to stop city council members from opening public meetings with the Lord’s Prayer. The Wisconsin-based Freedom…
Maine to Students: We’ll Help You Out, Unless You’re ‘Religious’
Click here to view full article at www1.cbn.com Parents in Maine who want to use school choice funds to send their children to religious schools aren’t being allowed to participate in the state’s school tuition program. Since 1873, Maine has paid for parents in small towns to send their children…
More answers to readers’ comments and queries – July
Click here to view full article at www.lawandreligionuk.com More answers to readers’ queries and comments Below is a further compilation of “Quick Answers” to questions which have arisen from searches of, or comments during July, providing links to our blog posts addressing these issues. As before, the topics covered in…
Court Rules In Favor of Atheist to Exhume Daughter
Click here to view full article at www.worldreligionnews.com Natalie Maynro is licensed under CC BY-2.0 The judge granted the request on genuine mistake grounds Judge Lyndsey de Mestre, QC, the Deputy Chancellor of Diocese of St, Albans, has given permission to Mrs. Beverley Wilson and Michael Hugill, her ex-husband, parents…
Appeals Court Rules Against Proselytizing School Board in Chino Valley (CA)
Click here to view full article at www.patheos.com In a unanimous decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today, the judges ruled that the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Directors (in California) was indeed violating the Establishment Clause by promoting Christianity at meetings. This is a huge…
Judge: Jewish heritage can be basis for race discrimination
Click here to view full article at religionnews.com Entrance to Louisiana College in Pineville, LA. Photo by Billy Hathorn/Creative Commons (AP) — Jewish people are protected by a law against racial discrimination in employment decisions, a federal magistrate judge has concluded in siding with a football coach suing a private…
Canada’s Supreme Court Relegates Religious Beliefs to Second-Tier Status. America, Be Warned.
Click here to view full article at www.dailysignal.com Emilie Kao is director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. Canada’s Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 against Trinity Western University, prioritizing sexual orientation over the free exercise of religion. This ruling should…
A holy mess: Walgreens case shows it’s time to get God out of the workplace
Click here to view full article at www.latimes.com I feel about people with strongly held religious convictions pretty much the the same way I feel about people who can juggle machetes and lit torches: I’m impressed and maybe a little envious, but please be careful around others. That’s been on…
Des Moines diocese defends legality of school grants
Click here to view full article at www.catholicnewsagency.com Des Moines, Iowa, Jun 22, 2018 / 10:49 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- After reviewing $844,000 worth of grants that were given by Polk County, Iowa to local Catholic schools a few years back, the Diocese of Des Moines said that it…
Jordan Peterson Warns Canadian Christians Their Religious Freedom Rights Are Eroding
Click here to view full article at www.christianpost.com (Screenshot: YouTube/The Bridgehead)Jordan Peterson in an interview with Canadian author and activist Faytene Grassechi uploaded on June 20, 2018. Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist, author, and free-speech advocate, has warned Canadian Christians that they must make a "great leap forward" because religious…
Canadian Supreme Court upholds right of law societies to deny accreditation to Christian law school over homosexuality beliefs
Click here to view full article at www.christiantoday.com The aerial view of Trinity Western University is seen in a screen capture of a video promoting the school. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that law societies in Ontario and British Columbia can deny accreditation to an evangelical Christian law…
Canada’s top court ‘obliterated’ religious rights in ruling against Christian university: critics
Click here to view full article at www.lifesitenews.com Shutterstock OTTAWA, June 15, 2018 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The Supreme Court decision favoring LGBTQ “rights” over a Christian college’s freedom to uphold Christian moral standards is an outright attack on religious freedom, said a number of critics. In a pair of…
Canada’s top court ‘obliterated’ religious rights in ruling against Christian university: critics
Click here to view full article at www.lifesitenews.com Shutterstock OTTAWA, June 15, 2018 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The Supreme Court decision favoring LGBTQ “rights” over a Christian college’s freedom to uphold Christian moral standards is an outright attack on religious freedom, said a number of critics. In a pair of…
Colby Cosh: Does the Supreme Court’s TWU decision herald a more disputatious future?
Click here to view full article at nationalpost.com As my beloved readers know, I have always enjoyed Canadian appellate law in the spirit of a knowledgeable spectator. And I have always believed that the news media may not have been devoting enough attention and resources to this element in the…
Courts Have No Business Determining the “True” Requirements of Any Religion
Click here to view full article at mosaicmagazine.com Writing for the majority in the Supreme Court’s ruling on the case of the Christian baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that “it hardly requires restating that government has no role in deciding…
The Arizona Case That’s Proving the Colorado Baker ‘Victory’ Didn’t Solve Anything
Click here to view full article at www1.cbn.com Many religious liberty advocates were thrilled with last week’s Supreme Court ruling which seemingly vindicated a Colorado baker who declined to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing his Christian beliefs. A recent decision by an Arizona appellate court, however,…
SCOTUS Rules for Baker, Waiting-Time Penalties, the “Epic” Effect, New Salary History Bans: Employment Law This Week: June 11, 2018
Click here to view full article at www.natlawreview.com GroPro 20/20 Big Ideas for Law Firm & Accounting Firm CMO Sales & Marketing Pros– June 13 NYC 1. SCOTUS Rules for Christian Colorado Baker Our top story: On narrow grounds, the Supreme Court of the United States has found in favor…
Public university lets Quidditch Club choose its own leaders but not Christian group: lawsuit
Click here to view full article at www.thecollegefix.com ‘Change of position wasn’t a change of heart’ InterVarsity is making “second-class citizens” out of Wayne State University students by not letting non-Christians run for leadership posts in the Christian campus organization, according to the public university. It’s trying to get a…
Gay Americans Have Little to Fear From the Supreme Court’s Compromise in Masterpiece Cakeshop
Click here to view full article at slate.com Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins embrace outside the US Supreme Court as Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is heard on December 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Like a good wedding cake, the Supreme Court’s 7–2 decision on Monday in Masterpiece…
Gay Americans Have Little to Fear From the Supreme Court’s Compromise in Masterpiece Cakeshop
Click here to view full article at slate.com Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins embrace outside the US Supreme Court as Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is heard on December 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Like a good wedding cake, the Supreme Court’s 7–2 decision on Monday in Masterpiece…
U.S. Supreme Court backs Christian baker who spurned gay couple
Click here to view full article at in.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory on narrow grounds to a Colorado Christian baker who refused for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, stopping short of setting a major precedent allowing…
Breaking news: SCOTUS rules in favour of Masterpiece Cakeshop
Click here to view full article at www.lawandreligionuk.com Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. is a Colorado bakery owned and operated by Jack Phillips, an expert baker and devout Christian. On 4 June, in Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd et al v Colorado Civil Rights Commission et al 584 U. S. ____ (2018) 3 ,…
Appeals Court Upholds ‘In God We Trust’ On US Currency
Click here to view full article at dailycaller.com An American 20 dollar bill note. (YouTube screenshot/NowThis World) A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the federal government can lawfully print “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency. Though the result is a victory…
The Supreme Court May Soon Set Boundaries on Religious Exercise and Use of Property
Click here to view full article at www.thenewamerican.com Very soon, the Supreme Court of the United States will issue a “ruling” that at once will draw legal boundaries around the acceptable exercise of religion in this country and will set rules for the acceptable use one may make of his…