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“The two schools asked the FHSAA for permission to conduct a joint prayer over the loudspeaker before kickoff…" Photo via Camping World Stadium website A federal appeals court Wednesday overturned the dismissal of a lawsuit about whether the Florida High School Athletic Association improperly prevented Christian schools from offering a…
Captive audience. (Will C. Fry) Cambridge Christian School of Tampa argues in the lawsuit that the decision blocking the use of the loudspeaker for the prayer violated First Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell in 2017 dismissed the case, but a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit…
In this file photo, members of the Amish community file into the Seneca County Courthouse last month for a state Supreme Court hearing on an Amish man’s lawsuit that sought to overturn New York’s new ban on religious exemptions that allowed unvaccinated children to attend school. Spencer Tulis / Finger…
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the same organization responsible for its infamous case against Christian baker Jack Phillips that went all the way to the US Supreme Court, is still trying to censor its citizens who voice views in favor of traditional biblical marriage. This time, the commission has set…
BOSTON – A federal appeals court should reaffirm that Maine is not required to fund religious education as part of its tuition payment program, according to a friend-of-the-court brief filed today by civil rights groups and religious organizations including the ACLU, ACLU of Maine, Americans United for Separation of Church…
S ince before Trump, religious conservatives in this country have been developing a doctrine that the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of religion allows them to refuse to comply with laws that are against their religion. On this basis religious people claim the right to refuse to participate in legal abortions,…
Falun Gong Adherent meditating in Tieneman Square By ClearWisdom.net While a religiously tolerant Europe slowly slips away from religious belief and observance, the government of China treats religion not as recognition of mankind’s spiritual nature, but as a threat to society, to law and order and to state control. Ironically,…
Bushra Ibrahim was employed at the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, Sherriff Street, Dublin, between June 2013 and June 2017. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has issued High Court proceedings in an employment law case in which it is claiming sovereign immunity. The case involves a woman, Bushra Ibrahim , who…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – The Supreme Court of Kentucky ruled in favor of a Hands On Originals, a Lexington t-shirt printing company that refused to print t-shirts for the city’s pride festival. In the opinion, Justice Laurance VanMeter wrote the wrong party filed the suit, making it almost impossible to…
The Kentucky Supreme Court has dismissed — on a technicality — a lawsuit brought against a shop that refused to print T-shirts for Lexington’s 2012 Pride Festival. “The court sidestepped debates over civil rights and the freedoms of religion and speech by ruling on a legal technicality, that the party…
The Kentucky Supreme Court dismissed a discrimination claim Thursday against a print shop owner who refused to make a gay pride T-shirt because he said it was against his religious beliefs . Two lower courts had ruled in favor of Lexington print shop Hands-On Originals, which declined a T-shirt order…
Modern political candidates spend a lot of time presenting themselves as culturally acceptable to voters. That means a lot of talk about God, faith, and family, and often the winning candidate is the one who looks best driving a well-worn pickup truck. This is nothing new in American politics, but…
Modern political candidates spend a lot of time presenting themselves as culturally acceptable to voters. That means a lot of talk about God, faith, and family, and often the winning candidate is the one who looks best driving a well-worn pickup truck. This is nothing new in American politics, but…
A petition to review a writ of certiorari filed on behalf of a La Plata High School alumna, who claimed that the Charles County Public Schools system violated her First Amendment rights back in 2014 by allegedly promoting and endorsing assignments about Islam which conflicted with her Christianity, was denied…
Supreme Court Rejects Case of Christian Student Forced to Write Islamic Prayer The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a Christian high school student who claims her constitutional rights were violated when she was forced to write on a worksheet, “There is no god but…
Supreme Court Declines To Hear Case Promoting Islam In Public School The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of a Christian high school student in Maryland who, despite threats of receiving a failing grade, refused to deny her faith by making a written profession of the Muslim conversion…
Maryland high schooler Caleigh Wood’s case made it to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that an assignment to write the Islamic Conversion Prayer did not violate the establishment clause of the first amendment. But the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Should the Supreme Court…
At a recent televised town hall, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke called for religious institutions to lose their tax-exempt status if they disagree with him on same-sex marriage. CNN’s Don Lemon asked O’Rourke, “Do you think religious institutions like colleges, churches, charities – should they lose their tax-exempt status if they…
iStock photo PHOENIX, Ariz. (BP) — The Arizona Supreme Court last week rebuked states and municipalities that overzealously enforce anti-discrimination laws. The state’s highest court said the city of Phoenix cannot apply a nondiscrimination ordinance to the designers of custom wedding invitations. In a 5-3 decision, the court found Joanna…
A judge has dismissed a family’s request to keep their daughter, Taquisha McKitty on life support after she was declared clinically brain dead. TORONTO — Ontario’s top court dismissed Wednesday a legal challenge brought by a Toronto-area family that fought to keep their daughter on life support after she was…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of three Maine families who are challenging a decades-old state law that bars tuition reimbursement for attending religious schools. Angela and Troy Nelson pose in August 2018 with their children, Royce and Alicia, at…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of three Maine families who are challenging a decades-old state law that bars tuition reimbursement for attending religious schools. Angela and Troy Nelson pose in August 2018 with their children, Royce and Alicia, at…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of three Maine families who are challenging a decades-old state law that bars tuition reimbursement for attending religious schools. Angela and Troy Nelson pose in August 2018 with their children, Royce and Alicia, at…
What to watch for in the new Supreme Court session If you care about property rights, the environment and the First Amendment, here’s a quick checklist of cases to watch in the Supreme Court term starting this week. County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund The Clean Water Act makes…
The U.S. Supreme Court may decide as early as this week if it will hear a case related to a lawsuit involving the former Bible in the Schools program in Mercer County schools. Patrick Elliott, an attorney for the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) in Wisconsin, said last week the…