The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty joined other Christian and Jewish organizations in a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that a 40-foot cross on government land at a major intersection violates the government’s fundamental obligation to be neutral between competing religious claims.
Vox reports on the motivation behind a President Donald Trump Tweet that includes a random endorsement of Bible literacy bills, which support Bible study in public schools agenda.
Amanda Tyler said the Trump administration’s support for a Christian foster care agency that refused services to a Jewish woman “signals a dramatic and troubling shift” toward government-funded religious discrimination.
Amanda Tyler reports on the events of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto in November 2018
Two different vaccine refusal disputes led to two different outcomes. Michigan’s Memorial Healthcare agreed to allow employees with religious objections to receiving the flu vaccine to wear a mask during flu season, while Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s ruling in favor of the Northern Kentucky Health Department’s exclusion of an unvaccinated high school student from school and extracurricular events during a chicken pox.
On June 28, the Supreme Court agreed to take up Espinoza vs. Montana Dept. of Revenue, a case involving Montana’s tuition scholarship program, which offered tax credits for private school tuition, including religious schools.