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Indiana court rules Christian groups lack standing to challenge state RFRA

December 4, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

An Indiana state trial court judge has ruled that the conservative family advocacy groups lack standing to challenge gender identity and sexual orientation exclusions in Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Filed Under: Free Exercise, RFRA

Lemuel V. Sapian releases new book on America’s religious freedom divide

December 3, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Very few things can be as divisive as religion. In free America, we are guaranteed freedom of religion. This has kept the United States a mighty nation, with its strength being derived from unity in diversity. However, many Christians believe America is a Christian Nation and should be upheld as such by civil laws. The public divide over this political issue is seen in the separation of people into diverse groups,

Filed Under: Free Exercise, Peacemaking, Politics, Religion

Supreme Court to decide whether RFRA permits monetary damages against federal employees

December 3, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) permits lawsuits seeking money damages against individual federal employees.

Filed Under: Free Exercise, Supreme Court Tagged With: Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA

Ryan Snow’s new book explores how Congress passed the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and why it matters

November 14, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Ryan Snow: Religious Freedom What's All the Freedom About - Book cover

Attorney Ryan Snow has released a new book that is designed to bring non-lawyers up to date on the most important religious liberty debate facing America. Religious Freedom: What’s All the Freedom About recounts the history behind religious freedom laws, and includes an history of how Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, in 1993 – a feat hardly imaginable today.  

Filed Under: Book, Free Exercise, History Tagged With: Janet Reno, Justice Scalia, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA

Federal Court: Trump’s “Conscience Act” exceeds authority but does not violate the Establishment Clause

November 6, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

Federal courts and abortion laws

In a 147-page ruling issued today, New York Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer found that the Trump administration’s “conscience act” exceeded the president’s authority but did not violate the Establishment Clause. Given its procedural defects, the rule was invalidated in its entirety. 

Filed Under: Abortion / Contraception, Assisted Suicide, Current Events, Free Exercise, Health Tagged With: conscience act, Donald Trump, executive authority, right of conscience

Kentucky Court: Hands On Originals case dismissed – LGBTQ+ rights organization lacks standing

November 4, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that an organization that sued Hands On Originals (“Hands On”), a t-shirt print company, for discrimination lacked standing as an “individual” to pursue the claim.

Filed Under: Constitution, Current Events, Discrimination, Free Exercise Tagged With: Hands On Originals, Kentucky, Non-discrimination, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, standing, Supreme Court

California Court: Transgender person can sue Catholic hospital for discrimination for initially denying transition surgery

September 26, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

A California Court of Appeals has ruled that a religious hospital can be liable for discrimination if it refuses to provide medical services for religious reasons without immediately providing a referral to a hospital that will accommodate the patient.  

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Free Exercise, Free Speech, Health, Religious Institutions

Opinion: Atheists’ board invocations help religious freedom

August 27, 2019 by James Coffin

Commissioners on the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners were no doubt stunned when, on July 8, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit unanimously declared (Williamson v. Brevard County) that the commissioners’ practice of automatically denying atheists the opportunity to offer solemnizing invocations/reflections at the board’s meetings was “discriminatory,” “unconstitutional” and “must be rejected.”

Filed Under: Free Exercise

Legal and Legislative Update

August 16, 2019 by ReligiousLiberty.TV

An update on the status of Patterson v. Walgreen, New York expands statute of limitations on child sexual abuses case, ministerial exception in disability claims, and Sabbath accommodation

Filed Under: Employment Law, Free Exercise, In the News, Legal Issues, Religious Institutions, Supreme Court

Justices hint interest in revisiting Title VII religious accommodation while declining to hear football coach prayer case

January 30, 2019 by Michael Peabody

It is debatable whether a claim by a public school football coach that he is compelled by religious belief to pray at the 50-yard line following each game is a good vehicle for addressing either free exercise or workplace religious accommodation. However, it does appear that the four justices who signed onto Alito’s response have concerns about the chilling effect of Hardison and Smith on the ability to even raise Title VII religious accommodation and Free Exercise Clause claims. With Patterson v. Walgreen Co., the Supreme Court has the opportunity to revisit religious accommodation claims under Title VII.

Filed Under: Employment Law, Free Exercise, Free Speech, Religious Accommodation, Supreme Court Tagged With: Patterson v. Walgreen Co., religious accommodation, religious freedom, religious liberty, Title VII, TWA v. Hardison

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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.

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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.

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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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Since the days of Thomas Jefferson, religious freedom has been at the absolute center of American values and an essential component of our foreign policy, and it is especially relevant right now for all of the obvious and tragic reasons.

— John Kerry

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