A group of current and former LGBTQ+ students have sued the U.S. Department of Education to either force their colleges, universities, and seminaries to change their policies or to stop providing federal financial assistance.
LGBTQ+ Students Sue to Eliminate Title IX Religious Exemption Read More »
The guarantee of Free Speech exists next to the religious freedom guarantees in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. These rights often intersect, as the ability to speak according to one’s conscience is innate to almost any conscientious belief system in existence. To apply restrictions to speech would also be applying restrictions to the exercise of religion.
Free Speech and Social Media Censorship: An Analysis Read More »
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that plaintiffs whose religious rights were violated can sue government employees individually for monetary damages.
Court unanimously finds RFRA plaintiffs can sue FBI agents for money damages Read More »
The language of the new Los Angeles COVID restriction specifically exempts religious gatherings as a matter of constitutional right.
LA County recognizes churches are constitutionally exempt from stay-at-home order Read More »
In a major victory for religious congregations, delivered late on Thanksgiving Eve, the United States Supreme Court blocked the state of New York from implementing gathering restrictions that the Court ruled discriminate against religious congregations.
Court blocks New York Governor’s COVID Restrictions on Religious Congregations Read More »
What if the church is a place where lives are transformed from the inside out, where people make decisions to follow Christ, and find not only find community, but actual real and powerful solutions to their failing marriage, their chronic mental illnesses, their abject loneliness, their anger and fear and judgment, and pain?
Goulard: Churches are Absolutely Essential Read More »
In June, a Florida Seventh-day Adventist school that received state and federal funding fired a teacher because of his sexual orientation.
On October 6, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case on the issue of whether individual FBI agents can be held financially liable if they are found to have violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The underlying case involves Muslim-Americans who alleged that individual FBI agents put them on the “no fly” list after they refused to act as informants against fellow Muslims in terrorism-related investigations.
The Satanic Temple is asserting a free exercise right to abortion as a religious ritual in lawsuits against the state of Missouri and against a Louisiana advertising agency.
Contempt of court is a quasi-criminal act, and the court cannot punish someone for breaking a regulation if that regulation is not constitutional.
Church deserves trial on constitutionality of shutdown order rules judge Read More »
