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To the Editor; The 8/1/22 Inside Higher Ed article, “Seattle Pacific Sues Washington AG,” contains several errors of fact that need to be corrected and additional editorial decisions that demonstrate bias in both terminology and perspective. In the initial news sub-headline, author Josh Moody incorrectly described the reason Seattle Pacific…
Catholic Relief Services is a Baltimore-based nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian relief worldwide. A federal judge has ruled that Catholic Relief Services, an international humanitarian aid organization based in Baltimore, has been discriminating against a gay employee by denying his husband health insurance. When the employee, known in court records…
This lawsuit follows one filed in Leon County Circuit Court June by a South Florida Jewish congregation that also argues the new law, which provides no exceptions for rape and incest, violates rights to privacy and religion. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo By Matt Dixon 08/02/2022 01:22 PM EDT TALLAHASSEE, Fla.…
What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? Maine will find out in the coming school year. A lot has changed since I wrote about state-funded Christian education in January. The Supreme Court’s decision in Casey v. Makin has all but forced Maine to pay for Christian education,…
Ogboji In a majority decision of five in favour and two dissenting, the Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday, June 17, in Abuja, affirmed the rights of female Muslim Students in Lagos state public primary and secondary schools to wear hijab. The seven-member panel of the Supreme Court affirmed the…
MADISON, Wis. (CN) — A Wisconsin federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit from a local church challenging a nearly 100-year-old provision in state law it says will cost the congregation their land for voting to leave a conference of Methodist churches. The Hebron Community Methodist Church of Fort Atkinson,…
Danny Masterson was photographed at a Hollywood premiere on June 29, 2015. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images.) The Church of Scientology is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that questions whether religious groups can force their followers — and even their ex-followers — to submit to internal…
St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame) The world’s leading defenders of religious freedom will gather in Rome July 20-22 for the second annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit, hosted by the Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative . The summit’s theme is Dignitatis humanae — the…
If you ask some Americans, the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling did more than overturn Roe v. Wade. They believe it also shrunk the distance between church and state. These more liberal religious freedom advocates fear the court has cleared the way for lawmakers to privilege conservative religious teachings on when…
In its last two weeks of a blockbuster term, the U.S. Supreme Court released two major First Amendment decisions dealing with religious liberty: Carson v. Makin , about whether Maine could refuse to fund religious schools, and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District , about whether a football coach could pray…
In its last two weeks of a blockbuster term, the U.S. Supreme Court released two major First Amendment decisions dealing with religious liberty: Carson v. Makin, about whether Maine could refuse to fund religious schools, and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, about whether a football coach could pray on the…
Employers Respond to Supreme Court’s Decision Striking Down Roe v. Wade In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade , several large national employers, including Disney and Facebook, stated that they will cover expenses incurred by an employee who must travel out of state for…
On June 14, the New York State Supreme Court, New York County (a trial level court in New York State), ruled that Yeshiva University (YU) and its president must “immediately grant plaintiff YU Pride Alliance the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges afforded to all other student groups…
Erin Hawley | New York aims an attack at Yeshiva University Yeshiva University students study in the school’s library in New York City. You have 4 free articles remaining. Full access isn’t far. We can’t release more of our sound journalism and commentary without a subscription, but we can make…
In my 33 years of advocating for religious liberty, I have never seen a year like this at the U.S. Supreme Court . This term, the Supreme Court decided three important religious liberty cases. Each case firmly defended the right of people of faith to be free from anti-religious discrimination…
Many states have amended their state fair employment practices laws by redefining various key terms that have previously been consistent across the United States. For example, states like Colorado, Illinois, Georgia, Maryland and Virginia have redefined “employment,” “citizenship status,” “harassment,” “sexual harassment,” and “religion,” among others, to protect a wider…
The Supreme Court unties a knotty issue by ruling that, in firing him, a school district violated coach Joe Kennedy’s constitutional rights. Pictured: Kennedy speaks with reporters April 25 outside the Supreme Court Building after his case was argued. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Washington. Manuel Balce Ceneta – staff, AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to…
The US Supreme Court is seen behind a fence after overturning Roe v. Wade, in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022. Yesterday’s shameful Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade was telegraphed months ago. But, during the angst-laden wait for the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe , the court, so…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, June 21 that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education. (Photo by kallerna, cc-by-sa-4.0, https://bit.ly/39ykpqc) WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for…
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight recently warned that “with very different circumstances it may indeed be the mid or late 1850s again.” What could possibly justify such a grim comparison to the division and simmering, intermittent violence that culminated in America’s bloody Civil War? Then it hit me: personhood .…
This photo shows the U.S. Supreme Court Building, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 in Washington. A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that a majority of high court has thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a report published Monday…
On June 14, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill to insert the phrase “under God” into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance that children recited every morning in school. Previously, the pledge—originally written in 1892—had contained no reference to religion. The push to add “under God” to the pledge gained…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money. The…
Fencing blocks off the area around the U.S. Supreme Court, Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Washington. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report released Monday. Whatever the outcome,…