Several appeals courts are distorting clear recent precedents against infringing parents' right to direct religious upbringing of children, challenge to West Virginia's idiosyncratic school vaccine mandate says.
Maine's highest court upholds decision that lets father ban daughter from mother's church, scrutinizing its theology, leadership and how it makes the girl see her father. "Astounding" rejection of First Amendment rights, her lawyer says.
A groundbreaking settlement between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Christian Employers Alliance exempts thousands of employers from gender identity discrimination claims.
A groundbreaking settlement between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Christian Employers Alliance exempts thousands of employers from gender identity discrimination claims. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A federal settlement has given qualifying Christian employers new protections from certain Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement actions involving transgender and gender-identity policies. The agreement, reached in a lawsuit brought by the Christian Employers Alliance and represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, prevents the EEOC from pursuing covered Christian employers over workplace policies that conflict with their sincerely held religious beliefs. DETAIL: The protections include disputes…Open
Georgia school district, Quebec tourism minister showed hostility to viewpoints of Christian ministries that weren't even relevant to the programs that bureaucrats suddenly cut off, judges find.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed the lawsuit Thursday on behalf of the Silver Spring Jewish Center and Rabbi J. Menashe Shapiro. The lawsuit asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to block the law while the case moves forward.
State agrees to temporary restraining order on law that provides little to no exceptions for religious orders that provide end-of-life care, could threaten their federal funding, after emergency hearing.
The administration established the commission in a bid to review threats to religious liberty. The panel is expected to deliver its final report this year.
‘All we want is to keep serving’
Two blue states are still trying to force nuns’ healthcare plans to cover contraceptives. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty asked an appeals court today to thwart a ruling requiring the Little Sisters of the Poor to include contraceptives in their healthcare plan, Becket stated in a press release Tuesday. An Obama-appointed federal judge ruled in August 2025 that the group of Catholic nuns must comply with Pennsylvania’s and New Jersey’s mandate or risk facing millions of dollars in fines. (RELATED: Pope Praises American Legal Fund’s Efforts To Defend Religious Liberty) “For fifteen years, government officials have stepped into the ring with the Little Sisters and gotten pummeled every time,” Becket president Mark…Open
Damon Landor had taken what's known as the Nazirite vow and not cut his hair for 20 years. In 2020, officers handcuffed him to a chair and shaved his head.