The legal saga of Captain Jeffrey Little, a twenty-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) and a devout evangelical Christian, about which I previously wrote for Catholic World Report, is apparently nearing […]
A recent challenge to religious freedom can be found in Foothills Christian Ministries v. Johnson. At issue were regulations implementing California’s Child Day Care Act, which, in requiring all centers to be licensed, obligates their officials to inform parents and guardians that […]
There is conflict in Georgia over a release-time program in which students leave their regular classes during school days with parental approval to receive religious instruction. In Sweet Onion Christian Learning Center v. Vidalia City […]
There is controversy in Massachusetts, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, with Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. These organizations sued the City of Quincy and […]
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 […]
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