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Lawsuit Filed by a Christian Schoolteacher Fired for Premarital Sex Can Go To Trial
May 23rd, 201201:34 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (the circuit court that governs Florida, Georgia, and Alabama) just recently handed down a decision that allowed a case filed by a Christian schoolteacher who was fired for engaging in premarital sex to go to trial. The case is a lesson for Christian ministries in ... -
Press Misunderstands the Importance of Recent Supreme Court Case
January 30th, 201203:41 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot I recently explained the importance of the Supreme Court’s decision affirming a church’s right to control whom it employs as a teacher in its religious school in a post you can read here. Unfortunately, the vital protection this case provides for religious freedom has largely been lost on the main... -
Supreme Court Affirms – A Church Should Determine Who Its Ministers Are, Not the Gov’t
January 16th, 201202:22 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot The Supreme Court has handed down a fantastic ruling affirming the right of churches to employ only those individuals that share their beliefs and live their lives according to the teaching of the church. As you may have read in previous posts here and here, a church school in Redford, Michigan,... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #10 Financial Oversight
November 23rd, 201106:20 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot For many years, U.S. Senate Finance Committee member Charles Grassley (R-IA), has been looking into the financial practices of large media-based Christian ministries. Although he has not yet proposed any new laws that would govern how ministries report and manage their finances, in January he asked the ... -
USA Today Column Proposes Cleansing Politics of Religion
November 15th, 201104:45 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot A recent column in USA Today titled “5 rules for faith and politics 2012” proposes rules the authors say would avoid both theocracy and hostility toward religion. But all they succeed in doing is marginalizing people of faith who have the audacity to think their most cherished beliefs about God ... -
Bishop Warns of Government Assault on Religious Freedom
October 28th, 201112:44 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is rightly concerned that religious freedom as we’ve known it in this country for hundreds of years is increasingly under assault – by our own government! In an open letter to his fellow bishops, Bishop Dolan, President of the United State Confer... -
Appeals Court Rules for Religious Freedom
September 19th, 201101:51 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot I’ve reported several times on a case in Maryland where a nurse at a Catholic nursing home sued her employer because it required her to dress in a way that conforms to Catholic teaching. Last September the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear this case, which is referr... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #6 Pulpit Freedom
August 29th, 201110:22 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot It seems as though a new article comes out each year arguing that religious organizations should not be tax exempt if they oppose a particular politically popular cause, such as abortion or same-sex “marriage.” What many don’t realize is the IRS already conditions church tax... -
Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #5 Employment Nondiscrimination Act (“ENDA”)
August 08th, 201112:29 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot This bill is currently pending before Congress and could have a detrimental effect on the ability of churches to only hire individuals that agree with their religious beliefs and live their lives accordingly. If passed, ENDA would add “sexual orientation” to the list of characteristics... -
Can Church Schools Hire Teachers Who Share Church Beliefs?
August 03rd, 201110:28 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot Most would agree that a church should be able to open a school to ensure that its children get an education that conforms with its religious teachings. It follows that a church should be able to employ only those teachers who actually agree with its religious principles and apply them to their li...
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