BJC Executive Director speaks at Texas Tribune Festival
BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler will be speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival this September in Austin, Texas.
BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler will be speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival this September in Austin, Texas.
The Supreme Court waited until the last two days of its term to release two decisions with religious liberty implications. On this season 4 finale of the Respecting Religion podcast, Amanda and Holly look at the unanimous clarifying decision in Groff v. DeJoy and the deeply regressive decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis. They discuss the implications of both of these decisions, noting the conspicuous lack of snark in Justice Samuel Alito’s Groff decision and Justice Neil Gorsuch’s defensive attempt to make his big decision seem not all that remarkable.
BJC affirms the significance of laws like Colorado’s and rejects any attempt to portray them as an infringement on religious liberty.
“This decision is a victory for religious minorities, who disproportionately claim the need for workplace religious accommodations,” said BJC General Counsel Holly Hollman.
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The calls for political violence were bolder than I expected, and the baptisms were the strangest part of the event.
It happens in pretty much every administration, but what do you know about federal guidelines on religion in public schools? Holly and Amanda discuss the new release from the Biden administration outlining the different rights of students and teachers, and they share how some are misinterpreting the Kennedy v. Bremerton decision to open the door to more government-sponsored religious exercises. They also look at what we saw happen at the end of the Texas Legislature’s session in relation to bills that would impact religious freedom, and they review this week’s alarming news that an Oklahoma board voted to fund a religious public charter school.
As the associate director of development, Danielle Tyler works toward achieving the financial goals of BJC so our work defending faith freedom for all can continue and expand.
“The first national strategy to counter antisemitism is a helpful step forward in the ongoing work of fulfilling our country’s promise of religious freedom for all,” said BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler.
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