On February 18, 2025, in Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, the First Circuit undermined parental God-given rights to direct the upbringing of their children. The court instead upheld the authority of educators in Massachusetts, who, acting […]
On March 11, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Chiles v. Salazar this fall, The case challenges a Colorado law infringing on the free speech rights of a licensed Christian counselor who provided “conversion therapy” […]
For the second time in less than a year, another federal trial court judge in Colorado upheld religious freedom in education. On February 24, 2025, in Darren Patterson Christian Academy v. Roy, Judge Daniel D. Domenico permanently enjoined […]
As issues involving sexuality increasingly encroach on daily activities, including in schools, controversies increase over the messages educators allow students to communicate defending what are now euphemistically referred to as “traditional values.” In a recent […]
In December of last year, officials in the New Britain, Connecticut, school district suspended teacher Marisol Arroyo-Castro for insubordination after she ignored their orders to remove a small crucifix from near her desk. This essay […]
History repeats itself. The Supreme Court twice ruled that Colorado could not compel Christians who believe marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman—in 2016’s Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and […]
On January 17, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in a potential blockbuster dispute from Maryland now named Mahmoud v. Taylor. Mahmoud may be the Court’s most significant case on parental rights to direct the upbringing of their children since […]
As noted in an August 2024 column , anti-religious discrimination continues unabated in Maine despite the Supreme Court’s June 21, 2022 ruling in Carson v. Makin. In Carson, the Court reasoned that state officials could not exclude […]
On December 13, 2024, the Supreme Court accepted its first case involving religion in almost two years, Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. At issue in Catholic Charities is “[w]hether a state violates the First […]
Since 2016, in three cases from Missouri, Montana, and Maine, the Supreme Court ushered in a new era in its blossoming First Amendment jurisprudence. It has emphasized that state officials cannot deny a faith-based institution, and by extension, individuals, […]
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