Donate
Donate

Supreme Court Agrees to Review Case Involving Denial of Funding to Religious Schools

In March, The National Legal Foundation filed a “friend of the court” brief urging the Supreme Court to take a case (Carson v. Makin) that could end government discrimination against religious schools in the funding context. The case involves a Maine school program that pays the private school tuition for students who live in an area that lacks a public high school. The schools eligible to receive

Read More »
July 16, 2021 No Comments

Courts Need to Keep Their Paws Off Church Business

The NLF and another organization have recently filed a brief with the Supreme Court in North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention v. McRaney.  McRaney sued the mission board after his affiliated state board fired him as its lead executive minister, with him claiming that the national board had expressed disapproval of him

Read More »
April 6, 2021 No Comments

How Grimm Will Things Get?

The Fourth Circuit, 2-1, has again ruled that a student born a girl has a right to present as a boy and force her way into her school’s male restrooms and locker rooms.  The school’s offer to allow “Gavin” Grimm to use private facilities was “demeaning” and, in the panel majority’s opinion, violated both Title

Read More »
March 31, 2021 No Comments

They Still Don’t Get It, So Ministers Don’t Get Vaccine Priority

Throughout the summer and into the fall, and then this winter, churches and synagogues have been pushing back against governors and local authorities who have decided that religious services are not “essential,” as those officials have defined many other businesses to allow groups of people to gather.  Early efforts of churches to stop this discrimination

Read More »
February 12, 2021 No Comments

NLF Files Brief Supporting Christian Wedding Photographer

The National Legal Foundation (NLF) this week filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief on behalf of a Christian photographer in Loudon County, Virginia, in the of Updegrove v. Herring.  The photographer, Bob Updegrove, believes that God equips people with gifts to create art that reflects God’s beauty, artistry, and truth, and that he

Read More »
December 17, 2020 No Comments

Court Rules Conversion Therapy Bans Unconstitutional

In Otto v. Boca Raton (Nov. 20, 2020), the Eleventh Circuit (which has jurisdiction over Florida, Georgia, and Alabama) became the first federal appellate court to rule  unconstitutional  one of the “anti-conversion” acts inundating the country.  In doing so, it split with the Third and Ninth Circuits, which have upheld similar conversion therapy bans.  This

Read More »
December 15, 2020 No Comments

Supreme Court, with Barrett on Board, Clamps Down on Discriminatory Treatment of Religious Organizations in the Ongoing Emergency

Justice Barrett hasn’t published an opinion yet, but she’s just made her presence known.  When Justice Ginsburg was on the Court earlier this year, she joined a 5-4 majority that included Chief Justice Roberts and that refused the pleas of churches to stop, on an “emergency” basis, jurisdictions that were clamping down harder on in-person

Read More »
November 29, 2020 No Comments

Most Popular:

Scroll to Top