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The Supreme Court lifted an order Monday that punished a Christian couple in Oregon who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, telling a lower court to reconsider the dispute in light of the high court’s decision last year involving another Christian baker in Colorado. The decision keeps…
The Supreme Court was able to find a small patch of common ground sufficient to resolve the Bladensburg Peace Cross case, but the various opinions in the decision announced on Thursday reveal the deepest fissures among the justices on the most fundamental questions concerning the Constitution’s establishment clause. First, the…
Mark Levin and Michael McConnell on the separation of church and state The phrase "separation of church and state" appears nowhere in the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers saw nothing wrong with having religion in American culture, according to an expert. While Congress is prohibited from enacting a state religion,…
On Thursday, the Supreme Court held in American Legion v. American Humanist Ass’n , that Prince George County, Md., could leave standing a 32-foot-tall Latin cross that had been erected in 1925 to memorialize the sacrifice of local soldiers killed in World War I. Nearly 90 years after a Catholic…
Harry Litman Hide caption The Supreme Court was able to find a small patch of common ground sufficient to resolve the Bladensburg Peace Cross case, but the various opinions in the decision announced on Thursday reveal the deepest fissures among the justices on the most fundamental questions concerning the Constitution’s…
Holly Hollman is general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, which submitted an amicus brief in support of the respondents in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association . When the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the Bladensburg cross case , many church-state separationists feared a…
Photo credit: SAUL LOEB – Getty Images Clarence Thomas, layer of land mines in settled law, has managed to do it again. Perhaps that’s going to be his most lasting legacy as part of the Trumpist Supreme Court: setting the explosives in place to be detonated later by whatever larval…
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It is June, and that means the U.S. Supreme Court is issuing decisions and winding up its term. Today, the nine justices weighed in on the separation of church and state. By a 7-2 margin, the court ruled that a 40-foot cross, a World War I…
The Supreme Court Thursday ruled that a large cross erected as a memorial to the dead may continue to stand on public land in Maryland because it has many secular purposes. In other words, the real verdict on the “Peace Cross” case is: Be careful what you wish for. This…
The 40-foot Maryland Peace Cross, erected in 1925 on public land in Bladensburg, Md., as a tribute to 49 World War I veterans, can continue to stand despite being a symbol of Christianity, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 40-foot cross…
The Bladensburg World War I Memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland. It’s hard to think of a more aptly named legal doctrine than the Supreme Court’s Lemon Test. Created in 1971’s Lemon v. Kurtzman , it is meant to determine when government action violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The…
Supreme Court says 40-foot Maryland cross can stand as war memorial The Supreme Court said Thursday the Constitution did not require tearing down historic monuments just because they featured religious symbols, such as crosses or the Ten Commandments. In a 7-2 decision, the high court upheld the display of a…
Michael Robinson Chavez/Washington Post The “Peace Cross,” the focus of an intense court case regarding its upkeep and placement on public land, stands at a busy intersection in Bladensburg, Md. By Robert Barnes | Washington Post WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 40-foot cross erected as a…
Fox News Flash top headlines for June 18 On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States threw out a lower court ruling and $135,000 penalty against bakers Aaron and Melissa Klein, for following their religious convictions . The Court’s decision is a victory not only for Aaron and Melissa…
Supreme Court sends cake case back to Washington State high court COURTESY OF LAMBDA LEGAL The US Supreme Court has, for the third time, essentially kicked the can down the road on the question of businesses claiming religious exemptions from providing goods and services for same-sex weddings. On June 17,…
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Article Tools WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday passed up the chance to decide whether a baker’s religious objections to same-sex marriage means she can refuse to create a wedding cake for a gay couple when state law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. The case would have been…
Aaron Klein talked before those gathered at the Omni Shoreham Hotel about the fallout from he and his wife’s refusal to make a same-sex wedding cake. The United States Supreme Court vacated a ruling against a Christian couple forced to pay $135,000 for refusing to make a gay wedding cake.…
Email This The U.S. Supreme Court ordered reconsideration of a $135,000 award against an Oregon bakery that refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding in a case that revived a fractious debate over religious rights and equal treatment. After more than three months of deliberation, the justices Monday…
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking an Alabama High School to task after 18 football players were baptized last month. According to Fox News , 18 players for the Washington County High school were baptized in a feeding trough by Chatom Baptist Church’s pastor in May. The event was…
The exterior of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham in 2013. The business has since closed. On Monday, the Supreme Court threw out an Oregon court ruling against bakers here who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The move keeps the high-profile case off the court’s…
Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham, Ore., is seen on Feb. 5, 2013, which is now closed. (Everton Bailey Jr./AP) The Supreme Court on Monday passed up the chance to decides whether a baker’s religious objections to same-sex marriage means she can refuse to create a wedding cake for a…
Tom Rumble photo | Unsplash By Aaron Earls Pastors can rest a little easier in their homes today knowing they or their churches won’t have to pay any additional taxes on their residences—for now. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of the…
Everton Bailey Jr./The Oregonian, via Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from the owners of an Oregon bakery who were fined for refusing to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. In a brief order, the justices instead returned the case…
FREDERICKSBURG — A couple living in the Evergreens at Smith Run in Fredericksburg is suing the senior-living facility, claiming it violated their religious freedom rights. Attorneys for Ken and Liv Hauge argue in federal court filings that the couple was not allowed to hold Bible studies, that staff prohibited the…