In Denver, The Vail Corp has agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a suit brought by the EEOC for religion and gender discrimination. Meanwhile, France's government has taken a different tact to one area of religious accommodation: refusal. President Sarkozy...
The economy being what it is, and states struggling to make budgets like they are, it's probably not a good time to be flaunting a $3 million lakefront home, among other things, while running a tax-exempt religious organization. But that's just what a local...
The troubling news coming out of Iran these days is a powerful reminder of the institutions of freedom – speech, press and religion – that we hold dear in America, and that would seem to be essential to maintain a stable democracy. At the Washington...
In a unanimous ruling, the Texas Supreme Court found that the town of Sinton violated the state Religious Freedom Restoration Act by passing zoning laws that essentially outlawed a pair of religious halfway houses. Sinton — a San Patricio County town of less...
Earlier, I posted about the effort in Louisiana to change the state constitution, adding language to standard religious liberty protections. The measure received the large vote needed in the Senate, but fell short in the House, this time around anyway. Rep. Cameron...
Via Religion Clause, the judge who notably ruled Jose Padilla's suit against John Yoo can move forward included in that determination the RFRA and Free Exercise religion claims. Padilla argues that a memo written by the former Deputy AG resulted in him being...
