Written by Don Byrd
Writing for the ABA Journal, David L. Hudson, Jr. warns that the Supreme Court’s eventual decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway could create significant changes to the church-state landscape.
“I think that there are five votes on the current court to change the law of the establishment clause,” [First Amendment expert Erwin] Chemerinsky says. “Town of Greece and its amici are using this case as the vehicle for urging the court to do so. I am very concerned that there are five votes to shift to the ‘coercion test’—that the government violates the establishment clause only if it coerces religious participation.”
As regular readers know, the Baptist Joint Committee filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, which you can find here. BJC counsel Holly Hollman and Nan Futrell discuss the case in a podcast which you can listen to (or read ) here. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case on Wednesday, November 6.
