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Click here to view original article religionnews.com Voters fill out ballots at a polling place inside the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (RNS) — The role of religion and politics has always been controversial in America, from its inception to…
Click here to view original article www.mainepublic.org St. Dominic Academy in Auburn, Maine. A judge has ruled against a Catholic school challenging a state law that prohibits discrimination by religious schools receiving public funds. Auburn’s St. Dominic Academy brought the lawsuit about a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled…
Click here to view original article www.thecollegefix.com Political science professors at conservative and Christian colleges are split over the constitutionality of a new Louisiana law that requires all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The law already faces a legal challenge from several families as well…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com (Image by Sebastian/Pixabay/Creative Commons) (RNS) — It might seem strange that an Orthodox Jewish rabbi would side with a Christian adoption agency that refused to accommodate a Jewish couple. But I do. Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram, of Knox County, Tennessee, wanted to adopt…
Click here to view original article www.shreveporttimes.com Will Louisiana consider mandating religious prayer in schools after it became the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school and university classroom? Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry was asked specifically if he believes organized prayer should…
Click here to view original article www.delawareonline.com The Delaware Supreme Court has agreed with two lower courts that dismissed lawsuits filed by two pastors seeking to prevent the state’s governor from imposing future restrictions on religious worship. In its opinion issued Thursday, the court said freedom of religion is an…
Click here to view original article justthenews.com (The Center Square) – (The Center Square) — Connecticut’s highest court has rejected another legal challenge to the state’s pandemic-era law repealing religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements. Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruling rejected several claims by the plaintiffs in the case, who argued…
Click here to view original article www.secularism.org.uk NSS urges minister to update "unfair, confusing and restrictive" wedding laws in England and Wales. Photo by Brittney Weng on Unsplash (cropped) The new government should update wedding laws in England and Wales for greater freedom and fairness for couples of all religions…
Click here to view original article citizen.digital A cross is seen on the roof of a church. REUTERS/FILE All churches and religious organisations will be required to submit financial returns every year to the government if a proposed draft law to curb religious extremism and extortion is passed. The draft…
Click here to view original article news.bloomberglaw.com Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks to reporters on Nov. 7, 2022. Prosecutor defended rule as public safety measure Jury could view comments as hostile to religion The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office cannot escape a lawsuit from an employee who was fired for…
Click here to view original article thenationonlineng.net City Beats Lagos court In a landmark judgment delivered by Honourable Justice O. J. Awope of the Ikeja Judicial Division, Lagos State, a statutory marriage was nullified due to its contradiction with an earlier Islamic marriage conducted by the couple. In the case…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2023. Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com Less than a month before Oklahoma school districts begin classes, state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters on Wednesday issued guidance for how they might incorporate his directive, issued in late June, that the Bible be taught in every classroom. “Immediate and complete implementation of…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com Less than a month before Oklahoma school districts begin classes, state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters on Wednesday issued guidance for how they might incorporate his directive, issued in late June, that the Bible be taught in every classroom. “Immediate and complete implementation of…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com Instruction about the Bible can be legal – the question is how it’s done, and what the intent is. Pascal Deloche/Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach the Bible ,…
Click here to view original article apnews.com 1 of 3 | Ryan Tucker, left and David Cortman, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, and Yakima Union Gospel Mission CEO Mike Johnson, right, speak to reporters outside the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday, July 19, 2024.…
Click here to view original article accesswdun.com BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement a law requiring the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November as a lawsuit makes its way through the courts, according to…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com Ryan Tucker, left and David Cortman, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, and Yakima Union Gospel Mission CEO Mike Johnson, right, speak to reporters outside the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday, July 19, 2024. They are challenging a…
Click here to view original article www.malaysiasun.com A Washington state anti-discrimination law was challenged by the shelter in a federal appeals court this week It would require the Christian homeless shelter to hire LGBTQ+ people and others who are against its religious beliefs, including those on sexuality and marriage Union…
Click here to view original article kpel965.com Here’s When Louisiana Schools Can Expect to See Ten Commandments Posted in Classrooms Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement a law requiring the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November as a lawsuit…
Click here to view original article wsvn.com BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement a law requiring the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November as a lawsuit makes its way through the courts, according to…
Click here to view original article www.the-journal.com Judge agrees to wait until at least November for some classrooms A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol on June 20 in Atlanta. John Bazemore,/The Associated Press John Bazemore BATON…
Click here to view original article www.union-bulletin.com Joe Kennedy, former assistant coach, during football practice at Bremerton High School. Kennedy returned to his job after a Supreme Court ruling said he was allowed to pray at games — but he called it quits after just one game. A new law…
Click here to view original article apnews.com BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday to block Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, a measure they contend is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the suit include parents of…
Click here to view original article www.nwaonline.com Measure requires schools to display Ten Commandments A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta in June. (AP/John Bazemore) BATON ROUGE — Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement…