Dec 17, 2018 | Blog |
Written by Don Byrd “In Trinity Lutheran, the Supreme Court changed the landscape of First Amendment law,” the New Mexico Supreme Court noted in a decision last week approving a longstanding textbook loan program that benefits religious schools. The case,...
Dec 12, 2018 | Blog |
Written by Don Byrd Today the Montana Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a state scholarship tax credit program because it provides aid to religious schools in violation of the state constitution in Article X, Section 6. Montana’s scholarship program, the...
Dec 10, 2018 | Blog |
Written by Don Byrd It’s the holiday season. That means, among other things, that public school programming faces all kinds of dilemmas while navigating the rights of students to express their religious beliefs, and the rights of students to be free of religious...
Dec 6, 2018 | Blog |
Written by Don Byrd As a part of its series on the present and future of religious liberty issues, the Deseret News asked several faith leaders and religious liberty advocates and experts for their views on where we go from here in religious liberty. There were a...
Dec 4, 2018 | Blog |
Written by Don Byrd Here is some news for high school juniors and seniors interested in religious liberty topics and looking for an opportunity to win some scholarship cash and maybe even a trip to our nation’s capitol: entry forms for the Baptist Joint...
Dec 4, 2018 | Blog |
Written by Don Byrd Over the weekend, the Washington Post published a piece taking note of the fact that numerous states this year have passed laws authorizing or mandating local governments to post the phrase “In God We Trust” in public schools. The laws...
