Church-State Stories to Watch in 2019
I posted earlier my top ten religious liberty stories of 2018. But the new year is about looking forward, so here are some of the stories I am watching and waiting for in 2019.
I posted earlier my top ten religious liberty stories of 2018. But the new year is about looking forward, so here are some of the stories I am watching and waiting for in 2019.
Muslim organizations in both Virginia and New Jersey continue to fight for permits using the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
Last week federal appeals courts in two church-state cases declined to revisit panel decisions, leaving those rulings intact and setting up potential appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.
UPS has agreed to payments and new training procedures to settle claims brought by the EEOC that the company discriminated against employees by failing to accommodate hair length required by their religious beliefs.
The headlines of 2018 signaled the precipice of a marked shift away from the careful balance of concerns at the heart of America’s religious liberty heritage.
The fight to keep the Johnson Amendment intact is not over. Proposed tax legislation includes a section that would cripple that key protection for houses of worship.