Via Religion Clause, the city of Dallas was denied its motion for summary judgment in defense of a lawsuit challenging its Food Establishments Ordinance. The Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act gives weight to plaintiffs' claims, the judge ruled, that the law...
A Johnson County, Tennessee man, disturbed by the courthouse Ten Commandments display, has successfully required the county to display church-state separation documents as well. The county originally disallowed Ralph Stewart's "The Ten Commandments are Not...
AP reports on a new initiative of the New York Attorney General to protect religious freedom. Citing the city's growing religious diversity and rising claims of religious discrimination, AG Eric Schneiderman yesterday announced the effort. The attorney...
The State Senate in Michigan has sparked a firestorm by adding language to an anti-bullying bill that would exempt statements of sincerely held religious beliefs and convictions. Do anti-bullying provisions need religious freedom exceptions? Time's Amy Sullivan...
Members of the Summum faith – an interesting religion based in Utah – were unsuccessful in the Supreme Court in their effort to compel a local park to post a monument of their "Seven Aphorisms." They argued that because the park allowed a Ten...
Protecting religious liberty requires not just a proper regime of rules and regulations, but also the commitment to enforce those safeguards. In Arkansas, church-state watchers have found that although a rule is in place requiring state-funded pre-schools to refrain...
