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Click here to view original article www.ncronline.org Preschool district court ruling, Denver This is an undated photo of the Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse in Denver. A federal judge ruled June 4, 2024, that Colorado violated the law by excluding Catholic preschools from participating in the state’s universal preschool program.…
Click here to view original article www.thenorthwestern.com Our reaction as a local government to a church wanting to help the homeless should be thanks, security assistance and social services, not implied threats of citations. The concept of a “ separation of church and state ” is first known to have…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com The 5-foot-tall stone slab bearing the Ten Commandments near the Texas State Capitol. A challenge to the display reached the Supreme Court. AP Photo/Harry Cabluck (The Conversation) — Louisiana is not a stranger to controversy over religion in schools. In 2023, it joined…
Click here to view original article www.cnn.com The Louisiana state capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on April 4, 2023. CNN — Schools in Louisiana could soon be required by law to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The state House of Representatives gave final passage to House Bill 71…
Click here to view original article www.stltoday.com Hands folded in prayer on a Holy Bible Students across the country are facing increasing problems with their mental health. Some lawmakers think they’ve found a creative way to help them. Last year, Texas enacted a new law that would allow public schools…
Click here to view original article www.sandiegouniontribune.com The two federal lawsuits are part of a recent wave of such cases nationwide, encouraged by a Supreme Court seen as friendly to them California has long had a hard ban preventing public school funding from going toward any sectarian instruction or sectarian…
Click here to view original article thetablet.org Holy Family Cathedral in downtown Tulsa, Okla., is pictured in an undated photo. (Photo: Diocese of Tulsa) PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After presenting an oral argument to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a legal representative for the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board is “very hopeful”…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a case that could pry open the door to publicly funded religious charter schools across the country. The state’s virtual charter school board approved a proposal to establish the school in a narrow vote last summer.…
Click here to view original article www.christianpost.com A previous year’s "Jesus in Daley Plaza" display, which is being sponsored this year by the Thomas More Society, Tapestry Fellowship, City First Foundation, as well as Karl and Nancy Fritz, who designed and built this year’s cross. | Thomas More Society A…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com The entrance to the Wisconsin Supreme Court chambers in the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond) MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Exemptions that allow religious organizations to avoid paying Wisconsin’s unemployment tax don’t apply to a Catholic charitable organization because its on-the-ground…
Click here to view original article abcnews.go.com A ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court is raising the bar for religions to show that their charity arms deserve tax exemptions 1:13 National headlines from ABC News Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. MADISON, Wis. — Exemptions that allow religious…
Click here to view original article www.courthousenews.com MADISON, Wis. (CN ) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided on Thursday that a group of nonprofit organizations affiliated with a Catholic diocese are not exempt from paying the state unemployment insurance tax. In a 4-3 decision split along ideological lines, the court’s…
Click here to view original article www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com Sweeping climate change disclosure laws recently enacted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom may never take effect if business groups prevail in a new federal lawsuit challenging the legislation. But absent an injunction, the law remains in effect, which means thousands of companies are…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com In a recent Idaho Statesman guest opinion , Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador complained that those who criticized him for placing Idaho’s legal affairs into the hands of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) were “whiners.” The opinion boasted that ADF’s legal services were…
Click here to view original article www.indystar.com Madeleine Parrish The Arizona Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would allow the Ten Commandments to be posted and read aloud in public school classrooms. Senate Bill 1151, sponsored by Sen. Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, would add the Ten Commandments to a list…
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Click here to view original article religionunplugged.com WASHINGTON — The barring of two Christians from jury duty in a trial involving a lesbian is evidence that Christians with a biblical worldview are increasingly seen as bigots, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said after Missouri asked the High Court to…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com Feb. 24—ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a divisive bill on Thursday that its backers contend will give people more protection from government intrusion while practicing their faith. It now heads to the full Senate for a vote that could clear…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com Feb. 24—ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a divisive bill on Thursday that its backers contend will give people more protection from government intrusion while practicing their faith. It now heads to the full Senate for a vote that could clear…
Click here to view original article www.columbian.com In a stunningly bad decision, the Alabama Supreme Court has held that frozen embryos in a lab count as children for the purposes of the state’s wrongful death law. It would take some time to enumerate everything that’s wrong with the holding. To…
Click here to view original article www.worldreligionnews.com It began in May of this year when Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law that gave a tax incentive to parents who send their children to private and parochial school. Denounced by the opposition as “a tax shelter for individuals…
Click here to view original article www.milwaukeeindependent.com By Frank S. Ravitch, Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion, Michigan State University When Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom, from elementary school to…
Click here to view original article www.postindependent.com Post Independent Letters to the editor graphic Are we forgetting about the First Amendment? It is unfortunate when people misstate, misinterpret, or misunderstand history. It is worse when they do so to further an agenda. Mr. Villareal does so in his letter (P.I.…
Click here to view original article triblive.com A menorah and a Christmas tree in the courtyard of the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg, Dec. 13. The return of a holiday display — a Christmas tree and a framed depiction of a menorah — in the public square outside the Westmoreland…
Click here to view original article wng.org Mid-Vermont Christian School should be free to practice its beliefs about biological sex GlobalStock/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, December 5th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary…