The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of two lesbian couples who were denied the opportunity to adopt children through Michigan’s foster care system, challenging the state’s practice of letting taxpayer-funded agencies reject qualified same-sex couples because of religious objections.
Read moreTwo Sikh cadets at the U.S. Military Academy claim that forcing them to wear the famous West Point plumed shako or “tar bucket” hat over or in place of their turbans will violate their religious rights.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union is demanding that four federal agencies release information about an executive order President Donald Trump reportedly planned to sign carving out religious-freedom exemptions the group says target the gay community.
Read moreReligious liberty did not grant three rabbis leeway to abduct Jewish husbands to force divorces from their wives, the Third Circuit ruled, upholding their kidnapping convictions.
Read moreEnforcing the “ministerial exception” to equal protection claims, the Second Circuit refused to revive a lawsuit by a Roman Catholic elementary school’s former principal accusing the Archdiocese of New York of gender discrimination.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that robocalls voiced by Mike Huckabee were primarily intended to advertise a movie about freedom of religion, not to conduct a political survey, and therefore violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Nine Indian tribes have beaten environmental groups to the punch by suing Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, claiming he violated their religious freedom by removing Yellowstone grizzly bears from the Endangered Species list without proper consultations.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Thursday dealt a blow to LGBT-rights activists in Mississippi when it ruled in favor of the state’s so-called religious-freedom law, finding the plaintiffs don’t have standing to sue.
Read moreThe Texas House gave its approval Wednesday to a bill that would allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies in Texas to refuse to place children in homes that conflict with their religious beliefs.
Read moreThe Freedom From Religion Foundation sued Thursday to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order allowing religious organizations and other nonprofits to support political candidates without risk of losing their tax-exempt status.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Thursday will sign an executive order doing away with an IRS rule that says religious organizations and other nonprofits that endorse political candidates risk losing their tax-exempt status.
Read moreA California appeals court dealt a blow Thursday to a Native American prison inmate who petitioned for the right to use pure tobacco during religious ceremonies.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit heard arguments Monday afternoon about a Mississippi law that would let government employees, service providers and business owners cite their own religious beliefs to deny services to gay couples.
Read moreTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned a suburban Dallas school district Friday that its prayer room for Muslim students may violate other students’ religious liberty.
Read moreSouth Dakota has become the first state since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015 to pass a law offering “protection” to religious-based child-placement services that would allow them to turn away adoptive and foster families that do not share the agencies’ beliefs.
Read moreGovernment attorneys struggled Wednesday before the Second Circuit to show why FBI agents who used the constitutionally shaky no-fly list to pressure Muslims into becoming informants should not pay damages.
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