In a stunning unanimous opinion, on April 29, 2026, in First Choice Women’s Center, Inc. v. Davenport, Attorney General of New Jersey, the Supreme Court found in favor of officials of a faith-based pro-life pregnancy center […]
An unusual case arose after the principal of St. Peter Claver School in Savannah, Georgia, elected not to renew the contract of a first-grade teacher, Keshel S. Coates, who finds Catholicism “offensive.” The teacher, described as […]
New York State Governor Cathy Hochul, a Catholic, who has never met a statute or policy opposing Church teachings she was unwilling to support, signed 2023’s LGBT Long-Term Care Facility Residents’ Bill of Rights into law. Among its provisions, the […]
The latest battle in the sexual revolution, placing religious freedom at risk, emerged in Zinski v. Liberty University (Feb. 2025). Controversy arose after Liberty officials hired Jonathan Zinski, who agreed to follow the school’s Doctrinal […]
On March 31, 2026, in Chiles v. Salazar (a case I previously wrote about here), the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a licensed Christian therapist because a Colorado law infringed on her free speech rights by […]
Recent controversies have swirled around whether Christians holding true to their deeply held religious beliefs can serve as foster and/or adoptive parents for children because of state-mandated gender ideology mandates. However, the tide may be […]
The Supreme Court’s March 2, 2026, decision in Mirabelli v. Bonta is another significant win for parental rights. A divided Court, in its 6-3 unsigned per curiam, “for the court” order—part of its so-called shadow docket, […]
A controversy that reached the United States Supreme Court twice and may be returning for a third round concerns state-mandated public postings of the Ten Commandments. In the most recent litigation involving the Commandments, the […]
On January 13, 2026, the Supreme Court conducted oral arguments in what promise to be blockbuster rulings—Little v. Hecox from Idaho and West Virginia v. B.P.J.—over state laws banning males claiming to be “transgender” from participating […]
On December 30, 2025, less than ten weeks after a father had filed suit in Alan L. v. Lexington Public Schools, a federal trial court judge in Massachusetts granted the father’s request for a preliminary injunction. In doing […]
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