Tag: Barry Lynn
Does allowing churches to worship in public schools create a constitutional problem, or is it an expression of religious freedom? More
“If anything is covered by separation of church and state, this is it,” says lawyer Douglas Laycock, who argued for the Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School, and nearly 100 diverse religious groups filed briefs supporting a church’s right to choose its own ministers. More
At the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore, executive director Bob Gehman says, “If we were not able to discriminate in our hiring practices based on our faith and religion, that would change us.” More
Kim Lawton looks at how the US works out the sometimes complicated relationship between freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. More
“I don’t see any special right in the Constitution or elsewhere that allows a church to take money and discriminate,” says the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. More
Watch the scene outside the Supreme Court on April 19 following oral arguments in the case of Christian Legal Society v Martinez. More