Workplace Religious Freedom Bill Finds Revived Interest (Religion News Service)
EXCERPT: May 5, 2010 – WASHINGTON (RNS) — More than a decade after it was first introduced, an on-again off-again bill to protect employees’…
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May 2010
April 2010
ANALYSIS: Supreme Court Declines to Hear Discrimination Case Involving Labor Union
By Michael D. Peabody, Esq. – For over 25 years, the legal system has grappled with the question of what constitutes prima facie discriminatory conduct…
March 2010
Maryland State Legislature considers a Workplace Religious Freedom Act (HB 381)
ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland State Legislature is presently considering a state-level Workplace Religious Freedom Act” (HB 381). The bill, currently working its way through…
NJ county’s Sunday buying ban may be checking out (AP)
Thanks to RLTV reader Doug Beasley for finding this story. EXCERPT: The Sunday shopping ban in New Jersey’s largest county – among the nation’s last…
9th Circuit Holds ‘Ministerial Exception’ Bars Seminarian Employment Case
EXCERPT: This “ministerial exception” helps to preserve the wall between church and state from even the mundane government intrusion presented here. In this case,…
Washington State Bill to Unionize Child Care Centers Dies in Committee
Washington State Bill to Unionize Child Care Centers Dies in Committee We have good news from the State of Washington. You may have read…
Oregon Legislature Votes Down 1923 Ban on Teachers Wearing Religious Dress
Oregon Legislature Votes Down 1923 Ban on Teachers Wearing Religious Dress By Michael Peabody – This month we have a couple of big stories…
February 2010
Oregon Legislature Ends Ban on Teachers Wearing Religious Dress – Goes to Governor for Signature
EXCERPT from OregonLive.com (link below): Oregon’s longstanding ban on teachers wearing head scarves or other religious dress is near its demise after the Senate…
Washington House of Representatives Attempts to Facilitate Union Take-Over of Religious Child Care Centers
By Michael D. Peabody - So what's the biggest threat to religious liberty? According to J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint…
January 2010
Blue Laws and Sunday Legislation-why do they exist? CNN Video
A video describing some of the religious and secular rationale behind American Sunday blue laws.