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Supreme Court asks lower courts to apply Trinity reasoning to school voucher cases

June 27, 2017 by Michael Peabody

Supreme Court sends voucher cases back to the lower courts “for further consideration in light of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc., v. Comer.” 

Filed Under: Church and State, Constitution, Education, Supreme Court Tagged With: School Vouchers, Trinity Lutheran

Supreme Court to review right of private parties to deny services to same-sex couples

June 26, 2017 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Supreme Court will hear a wedding services case involving a bakery owner who refused to provide a cake for a same-sex wedding for religious reasons.

Filed Under: Discrimination, Religious Accommodation, Supreme Court

Supreme Court: State must include church in public funding scheme

June 26, 2017 by Michael Peabody

The Supreme Court decision in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer changes 200 years of Establishment Clause precedent and puts churches at risk of regulation.

Filed Under: Church and State, Supreme Court

Op-Ed: Castile verdict is a nightmare come to life

June 22, 2017 by Jason Hines

By Jason Hines – I’m sitting here without a plan. I do not even have a rough outline of where these thoughts will go. If I have a plan, it is simply to write because the Spectrum Blog needs a post for Thursday morning and there is nothing else I want to talk about. I […]

Filed Under: Legal Issues

Blessed are the Peacemakers: Why Adventist Clergy Stay Away from Partisan Politics

June 15, 2017 by Michael Peabody

  By Michael D. Peabody, Esq.   n a study released June 11, 2017, researchers from Yale and Harvard concluded that Seventh-day Adventist clergy in the United States are the most evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to politics. The study also found that nearly half were not registered to either party. […]

Filed Under: Church and State, Peacemaking

Court may hear same-sex wedding cake religious exception case

June 9, 2017 by Michael Peabody

There are several reasons why the Supreme Court may decide to hear this case when it declined to hear previous religious exception cases.

Filed Under: Constitution, Discrimination, Supreme Court

Court: Religious hospitals not subject to Federal pension protections

June 5, 2017 by Michael Peabody

Supreme Court - DepositPhotos.com

The pensions of employees of church-affiliated organizations are not subject to federal solvency requirements that apply to secular organizations

Filed Under: Supreme Court

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Biden admin could hand over US control of health emergencies to WHO next week

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The ultimate control over America’s health care and its national sovereignty will be put up for a vote next week at a meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) governing legislative body, the World Health Assembly (WHA).  On May 22-28, 2022, the 75th World Health Assembly will convene at the United Nations […]

Statement on the Leak in Dobbs

The leak was intended to disrupt the processing of the decision and we are not going to dignify the leak or the unidentified leaker by analyzing it prematurely. As a constitutional republic we cannot go down that road without doing severe damage to the institution of the Supreme Court where there must be professional courtesy between the justices and their staffs.

Boston City Hall - photo from Supreme Court Opinion

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that Boston violated 1st Amendment in refusing Christian flag at City Hall

This morning the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Shurtleff v. Boston (Dec’d 5/2/2022) that the city of Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group when it refused to allow them to participate in a city flag raising program.

Active Liberty - a survey of Justice Stephen Breyer's religion clause jurisprudence - Supreme Court

Active Liberty: A Survey of Justice Stephen Breyer’s Religion Clause Decisions

A comprehensive review of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s decisions in Free Exercise and Establishment Clause cases.

Canadian gov’t calculates that expansion of assisted suicide will save taxpayers millions of dollars

In Canada, it is easier for the disabled who do not suffer terminal illness to get approval for assisted suicide than approval for affordable housing. The government has calculated the cost of providing healthcare versus providing assisted suicide.

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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

— Robert H. Jackson

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