US Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schools

US Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schools

(RNS photo by Aaron Schrank) The Supreme Court elated religious free exercise advocates and alarmed secular groups with its June 30 ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen. In Espinoza v. Montana Department of…

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Tuesday, June 30, 2020 in Washington. The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen. In…

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

By DAVID CRARY and ELANA SCHOR, Associated Press The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen. In Espinoza v. Montana Department…

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

By DAVID CRARY and ELANA SCHOR, Associated Press The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen. In Espinoza v. Montana Department…

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen. In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the high court ruled 5-4 that…

U.S. Supreme Court Declines Review of Education Case on Use of Salary History

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to take up a case about gender-based pay disparities in education, refusing to review a lower-court ruling that invalidated a California county education agency’s policy of considering new employees’ pay history in setting their salaries. The court issued a brief order without comment…

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

By David Crary and Elana Schor – Associated Press The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen. In Espinoza v. Montana…

Court upholds abortion-related ruling against Catholic Church

Court upholds abortion-related ruling against Catholic Church

ALBANY – A mid-level appeals court Thursday unanimously rejected the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany’s effort to challenge a state regulation that requires health insurers to cover medically necessary abortions. In a 5-0 decision, the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court’s Third Department upheld a January 2019 ruling by state…

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Tuesday, June 30, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains…

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

This photo shows the U.S. Supreme Court building. (Source: CNN, File) (WJRT) (AP) – The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be…

Commentary: The Supreme Court decision: Fundamental Shift or Preservation of the Status Quo? What religious organizations need to know about hiring

Commentary: The Supreme Court decision: Fundamental Shift or Preservation of the Status Quo? What religious organizations need to know about hiring

By Allison Carroll The United State Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County June 15, holding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex encompasses protection for homosexual and transgender individuals in the workplace. Writing for…

Trump Administration Celebrates Supreme Court Ruling on Religious Schools

Trump Administration Celebrates Supreme Court Ruling on Religious Schools

Source: (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The Trump administration is celebrating Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that deemed the exclusion of religious schools from taxpayer funded scholarships as unconstitutional. As Reagan reported earlier : The Supreme Court sided with a group of families in Montana that challenged a state law which banned scholarship…

Feds slap Stafford County with lawsuit over Muslim cemetery

Feds slap Stafford County with lawsuit over Muslim cemetery

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Stafford County, claiming it blocked the creation of what would have been a Muslim-owned cemetery in the county. The DOJ says the county violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act — RLUIPA — a federal law that protects religious institutions from…

Department of Justice files suit against Stafford over blocking of Islamic cemetery

Department of Justice files suit against Stafford over blocking of Islamic cemetery

Current AMAA cemetery on Brooke Road The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit alleging that Stafford County violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act by enacting overly restrictive zoning regulations prohibiting an Islamic organization from developing a religious cemetery on land it had purchased for that purpose. “Honoring…

Religious liberty, gay rights still at odds with ruling

Religious liberty, gay rights still at odds with ruling

No doubt about it: Someone will have to negotiate a ceasefire someday between the sexual revolution and traditional religious believers, said Justice Anthony Kennedy just before he left the U.S. Supreme Court. America now recognizes that "gay persons and gay couples cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior…