Supreme Court
Chaplains in the Texas public schools. Really.
By Mark Silk — May 30, 2023
(RNS) — According to a law passed by the state's Legislature last week.
Co-workers could bear costs of accommodating religious employees in the workplace if Supreme Court tosses out 46-year-old precedent
By Debbie Kaminer — May 15, 2023
(The Conversation) — The Supreme Court appears poised to change the definition of ‘undue hardship’ so that employers have to accommodate more of workers’ religious requests.
Why the Supreme Court should have stepped up on Indiana’s fetal burial law
By Elizabeth Reiner Platt — May 3, 2023
(RNS) — Religious liberty protects the right to refuse participation in a ritual as much as the right to engage in one.
Conservative Christians aren’t the only ones asking for accommodation in mailman case
By Yonat Shimron — April 18, 2023
(RNS) — Religious minorities — Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Seventh-day Adventists — have filed briefs asking the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that gutted a civil rights statute’s protections for religious accommodation.
Can a teacher put John 3:16 in email signature? District says no; her lawyers say yes
By Adelle M. Banks — April 10, 2023
(RNS) — An official of a Virginia school district said its ‘determination is not based on any particular religious viewpoint.’
Church-state separationist Barry Lynn recounts his legal arguments in new memoirs
By Adelle M. Banks — April 3, 2023
(RNS) — 'It is people who are hurting, people who are outcasts, that appealed to me,' Lynn said.
Justices spar in latest clash of religion and gay rights
By Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman — December 6, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court 's conservative majority sounded sympathetic Monday to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, the latest collision of religion and gay rights to land at the high court.
Religion plays a role in Native American adoption case before Supreme Court
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 9, 2022
(RNS) — Legal activists argue that Brackeen v. Haaland could inhibit Native American children’s contact with their religious traditions while extending a long history of white Christian efforts to convert Native children and remove them from their homes and families.
Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake
By Colleen Slevin — October 6, 2022
(AP) — DENVER (AP) — Jack Phillips, who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple's wedding cake a decade ago for faith reasons is challenging a separate ruling that he violated Colorado law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Supreme Court to revisit LGBTQ rights – this time with a wedding website designer, not a baker
By Charles J. Russo — September 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — 303 Creative v. Elenis gives SCOTUS another chance to set precedent about what happens when First Amendment freedoms come at a cost to civil rights.
Yeshiva University is forced to accept an LGBTQ club
By Mark Silk — September 15, 2022
(RNS) — But it’s unclear for how long.
Poll: Jewish voters are highly motivated and concerned about American democracy
By Yonat Shimron — September 15, 2022
(RNS) — Abortion is a driving issue, especially among younger Jews, but the threat to the future of democracy appears to be an even larger issue in the Jewish Electorate Institute poll.
Yeshiva University petitions Supreme Court to intervene in LGBTQ club dispute
By Kathryn Post — August 30, 2022
(RNS) — The Orthodox Jewish university filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court on Monday.
Religious schools shun state funding despite Maine victory
By David Sharp — August 30, 2022
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Only one of the Maine religious high schools that stood to benefit from the most recent Supreme Court ruling on state tuition reimbursements has signed up to participate this fall.
Texas judge blocks HHS enforcement of emergency room abortions, cites religious objections
By Adelle M. Banks — August 24, 2022
(RNS) — The judge said the guidance’s lack of exceptions for health care providers ‘with genuinely held religious objections to abortions’ may run afoul of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
