BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler responded quickly today to denounce an HHS decision issuing a waiver to a federally funded foster care service from requirements not to discriminate on the basis of religion.
The U.S. Supreme Court today left in place a 9th Circuit ruling in a Free Speech case involving a high school football coach’s insistence on praying on the field with his team.
With all of the culturally, historically, and scientifically significant places to take school children for field trips, we can surely leave religious theme parks off the list.
More than 120 lawmakers have signed on as co-sponsors of the Freedom of Religion Act, which is supported by several nonprofit organizations including the BJC.
Study *about* various religions can be an appropriate part of the public school curriculum, but a class that focuses exclusively on one religious text would seem fraught with constitutional peril in practice.
A federal jury awarded a whopping $21.5 million to a former Park Hotels employee who was fired for refusing to work on Sundays.