"Yes in God's Backyard"—A Useful, But Limited Form of Housing Deregulation
There is a growing movement to let churches and other religious organizations build housing on their property that would otherwise be banned by zoning regulations.
There is a growing movement to let churches and other religious organizations build housing on their property that would otherwise be banned by zoning regulations.
So says a federal appellate court, applying federal employment law, which requires employers to exempt religious objectors even from generally applicable job rules, unless exemption would impose an "undue hardship" on the employer.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
The charter school movement has seen many recent Supreme Court victories widening their scope to faith-based education, but some ambiguities remain.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker cited the Bible to explain why.
The court is silent on whether it would be OK to take him to Houston in July.
a new article of mine, is now available at the Journal of Law & Religion.
"During the custody battle [in Saudi Arabia], Ghassan AlHaidari accused Bethany of gender mixing, adultery, and insulting Islam and Saudi Arabia. Gender mixing, a punishable crime, entails having a male friend. To prove the charge of adultery, Ghassan submitted a photograph of Bethany with a male, who Ghassan claimed to be her boyfriend. The crimes of adultery, insulting Islam, and insulting Saudi Arabia carry a death penalty in Saudi Arabia."
because she was angry about the Israel-Hamas war, Indianapolis police said."
Amicus brief in Supreme Court's Second Amendment Rahimi case
A cabinet minister who once defended the right to blaspheme now wants a crackdown.
A federal court rejects challengers' Free Exercise Clause and parental rights claims.
What does that tell us about the state of American Christianity?
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The decision, which interprets Title VII's reasonable accommodation provision (enacted in 1972), applies to private employees as well as government employees.
"[T]he Does cannot wield the constitutional right to parent as a sword to require the district to adopt policies that help them to direct and control their son's choices," and likewise as to the right to free exercise of religion.
We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
Some of the points made by Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman in the course of assessing the issue under Jewish law have broader significance, as well.
Justice Breyer thought the Establishment Clause authorizes judges to improve the tone of political discourse. It does not.
Justice Breyer saw church-state controversies as highly and inevitably fact-bound, solvable only through a judicial balancing exercise.