The appeals court also rejected the plaintiffs' privacy and medical freedom, equal protection, and childrearing arguments....
Massachusetts requires foster families to “support and respect a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”...
Governor: Religious charter schools violate the Establishment Clause. Legislature, Attorney General: The Free Exercise Clause prevents Guam from denying publicly available funds to religious charter schools....
NYT dropped the article just before the Sabbath of a holiday weekend, so that those affected could not respond for at least 24 hours....
"The framers designed the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to protect the 'freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think.'"...
"Being forced to employ someone to represent the company who behaves in a manner directly violative of the company’s convictions is a substantial burden," the three-judge panel of Republican appointees found....
"70,000 Christians have been imprisoned in camps along with those believers from other religions."...
The Department of Health & Human Services told the system "it would lose its ability to accept Medicare, Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)" if it did not remove the candle from the chapel....
Number of Christian worshipers limited based on church's own security assessment. Similar restrictions also on Jewish pilgrims at Mount Meron....
YU's lawyer: “The parties will press forward with discovery,” after which Yeshiva can appeal to the Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the United States Supreme Court.”...
Court finds the state education department exceeded its authority in requiring religious schools to provide the substantial equivalent of secular education: "Parents should be given a reasonable opportunity to prove that the substantial equivalency requirements for their children's education are satisfied by instruction provided through...
Proposal would remove Trump-Pence era regulation mandating that higher education treat campus religious groups and secular groups equally...
Comptroller warns: "I must urge your institution to change course and offer a secure environment for your LGBTQ+ students and staff to create a supportive space to rightfully express their full selves."...
"Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body, church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies."...
“The defendant Rolando José Álvarez Lagos is held to be a traitor to the country.”...
It's never really over in the culture war, is it? Perhaps on a second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court we will finally get a ruling on the merits of whether anti-discrimination laws can be used to compel speech with which the speaker disagrees on...
The motion is the latest step on YU's path back to the United States Supreme Court....
Rejects Yeshiva's claim to be an exempt "religious corporation" and rejects Yeshiva's 1st Amendment claim: "Providing the Pride Alliance with full and equal access to public accommodations does not intrude on Yeshiva’s asserted right “to decide matters ‘of faith and doctrine.’"...
