Amanda Tyler said the Trump administration’s support for a Christian foster care agency that refused services to a Jewish woman “signals a dramatic and troubling shift” toward government-funded religious discrimination.
Amanda Tyler reports on the events of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto in November 2018
Two different vaccine refusal disputes led to two different outcomes. Michigan’s Memorial Healthcare agreed to allow employees with religious objections to receiving the flu vaccine to wear a mask during flu season, while Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s ruling in favor of the Northern Kentucky Health Department’s exclusion of an unvaccinated high school student from school and extracurricular events during a chicken pox.
On June 28, the Supreme Court agreed to take up Espinoza vs. Montana Dept. of Revenue, a case involving Montana’s tuition scholarship program, which offered tax credits for private school tuition, including religious schools.
Blogger Don Byrd summarizes BJC’s responses to the Supreme Court ruling in the The American Legion v. American Humanist Association case, about a large cross on public land.
Holly Hollman focuses on the narrow ruling by the Supreme Court in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association case, in an article for SCOTUSblog.