Click here to view original article www.jeffparish.net NEWS RELEASE JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JEFFERSON, LA – Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional attorney and author, will speak on the topic of “American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom ,” at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, October 21, 2023…
Smith & Tuttle on the Establishment Clause
Click here to view original article lsolum.typepad.com Peter J. Smith (George Washington University – Law School) & Robert W. Tuttle (George Washington University Law School) have posted Establishment Clause Mythology on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For 75 years, the Supreme Court’s opinions have reflected stark conflict between two competing…
Legal fight over Oklahoma Catholic charter school draws help from national groups
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com Laura Schuler, senior director for Catholic Education at Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, and Michael Scaperlanda, chancellor for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, present a proposal for the nation’s first publicly funded Catholic charter school earlier this year at a meeting of the Oklahoma…
Legal fight over Oklahoma Catholic charter school draws help from national groups
Click here to view original article www.oklahoman.com The two sides squaring off over public funding for a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma have lawyered up. Already, 27 attorneys from six states and Washington, D.C., have signed on for the battle , which is in Oklahoma County now but may ultimately…
A Debate about Religious Liberty in America
Click here to view original article constitutioncenter.org How did America’s founders view religious liberty? What does it mean today? And to what does the Constitution require religious exemptions from generally applicable laws? Marci Hamilton , author of God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty , and Michael…
Jacksonville agrees to exempt Catholic bookstore from LGBT nondiscrimination law
Click here to view original article www.christianpost.com Getty Images The city of Jacksonville, Florida, has agreed to exempt a Catholic bookstore from an LGBT nondiscrimination law, thereby enabling the establishment to operate in accordance with its religious beliefs about gender and sexuality. Last Thursday, the city of Jacksonville and Queen…
Religious Liberty Event Commemorates 130 Years of Advocacy
Nearly 200 religious liberty leaders, scholars, and advocates from around the world met for the ninth World Congress of the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA) in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, from August 21–23, 2023. The international event invited attendees to discuss “a holistic understanding of freedom of religion or…
Appellate Judges Revive Jewish Couple’s Lawsuit Alleging Adoption Bias Under Tennessee Law
FILE – Tennessee Sen. Paul Rose, R-Tipton, speaks on his bill allowing faith-based adoption agencies to decline to place children with same-sex couples because of their religious belief during a legislative session, Jan. 14, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. On Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, appellate judges revived a couple’s lawsuit that…
Appellate Judges Revive Jewish Couple’s Lawsuit Alleging Adoption Bias Under Tennessee Law
Appellate Judges Revive Jewish Couple’s Lawsuit Alleging Adoption Bias Under Tennessee Law August 25th, 20PM August 25th, 20PM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Appellate judges have revived a couple’s lawsuitthat alleges a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency wouldn’t help them because they are Jewish and argues that a Tennessee law protecting such…
Court rules Jewish couple can sue state for ’20 adoption law
Tennessee state Sen. Paul Rose, R-Tipton, speaks on his bill allowing faith-based adoption agencies to decline to place children with same-sex couples because of their religious belief during a legislative session in 2020. On Thursday, appellate judges revived a couple’s lawsuit that alleges a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency wouldn’t help…
Appellate Judges Revive Jewish Couple’s Lawsuit Alleging Adoption Bias Under Tennessee Law
Appellate Judges Revive Jewish Couple’s Lawsuit Alleging Adoption Bias Under Tennessee Law August 25th, 22PM August 25th, 22PM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Appellate judges have revived a couple’s lawsuitthat alleges a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency wouldn’t help them because they are Jewish and argues that a Tennessee law protecting such…
‘Warped history’: how the US supreme court justified gutting gay rights
A pride flag flies in front of the US supreme court, in Washington. The extreme religious right’s mission to roll back civil rights from abortion to public accommodations is being fueled by false facts and false history. Recent articles in the New Republic have documented the shaky factual foundation behind…
Jewish couple can sue Tennessee over Christian home’s refusal to train them to be foster parents
Tennessee Sen. Paul Rose, R-Tipton, speaks on his bill allowing faith-based adoption agencies to decline to place children with same-sex couples because of their religious belief during a legislative session, Jan. 14, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. On Thursday, Aug. 24, … Tennessee’s Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the state’s…
Appellate judges revive Jewish couple’s lawsuit alleging adoption bias under Tennessee law
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Appellate judges have revived a couple’s lawsuit that alleges a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency wouldn’t help them because they are Jewish and argues that a Tennessee law protecting such denials is unconstitutional. On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals ruled that Elizabeth…
Williams: Mixing public education and religion debases both, and our democracy
Even as a youngster, I could see the difference, and it went beyond the white shirt, blue slacks and plaid tie that was my uniform. From the morning prayers to religious instruction to the nuns who taught me, it was an education steeped in Catholicism — subsidized by the tuition…
Texas atheist group protests denial of downtown space to advertise its event
Metroplex Atheists put up a billboard to advertise an upcoming seminar after the group’s application to hang banners in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, about the event was denied. Photo courtesy of American Atheists Aug. 18 (UPI) — Members of Metroplex Atheists, a north Texas organization, plan to march Saturday in…
OKLAHOMA WATCH: Legal challenge filed against publicly funded religious charter school
A group of public school parents, taxpayers and faith leaders last week filed the first legal challenge to a state-sanctioned religious charter school. They’ve asked an Oklahoma County judge for an injunction to stop the process of opening the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. The group argues in…
White Christian nationalism threatens U.S. democracy
White nationalists attend a rally on October 28, 2017 in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The event billed as a “White Lives Matter rally” is hosted by Nationalist Front, which is a coalition of several white supremacist organizations. (Photo by Scott Olson | Getty Images) You may be among the 35% of Americans…
The Opening of a Religious Charter School Is Not Christian Nationalism
(GlobalStock/Getty Images) “Something deeply un-American is underway in the state of Oklahoma,” writes Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, in the New York Times . Mourning — and suing to prevent — the opening of a religious charter school in Tulsa, she decries that…
White Christian nationalism threatens U.S. democracy
White nationalists attend a rally on October 28, 2017 in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The event billed as a “White Lives Matter rally” is hosted by Nationalist Front, which is a coalition of several white supremacist organizations. (Photo by Scott Olson | Getty Images) You may be among the 35% of Americans…
Groups sue to block Catholic charter school in Oklahoma; state leaders stand firm
Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 2, 2023 / 09:30 am Nine Oklahoma residents and several interest groups, including the ACLU and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, filed a lawsuit against state leaders to block the sponsorship and funding for the first approved Catholic charter school in the country. The Statewide…
Oklahoma parents begin legal fight against first publicly-funded Catholic school in the US
A long-expected lawsuit has arrived to fight the creation of the country’s first religious charter school . The case, filed Monday in Oklahoma County District Court, kicks off likely years of litigation to examine the possibility of publicly funded religious schools, starting with St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.…
Legal Challenge Filed Against Publicly Funded Religious Charter School
Opponents of an application by a Catholic virtual charter school wait for the start of a meeting by the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City on Monday, June 5, 2023. (Paul Monies/Oklahoma Watch) A group of public school parents, taxpayers and faith leaders…
Revised Lawsuit Filed By Mendham Church Over Taxpayer Money
Earlier this spring, two churches filed a federal lawsuit against Morris County, alleging discrimination after being denied grant funding. Vianella Burns , Patch Staff Earlier this spring, two churches filed a federal lawsuit against Morris County, alleging discrimination after being denied grant funding. (Google Maps) MENDHAM, NJ — Two Morris…
Revised Lawsuit Filed By Long Valley Church Over Taxpayer Money
Earlier this spring, two churches filed a federal lawsuit against Morris County, alleging discrimination after being denied grant funding. Vianella Burns , Patch Staff Earlier this spring, two churches filed a federal lawsuit against Morris County, alleging discrimination after being denied grant funding. (Google Maps ) LONG VALLEY, NJ —…