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… Court Stops Vermont From Treating Religious High School Students Worse Than Everyone Else ADF won a lawsuit challenging the exclusion of religious schools from Vermont’s Dual Enrollment Program. Written by Alliance Defending Freedom Published March 4, 2022 Revised December 20, 2023 …

… How the Ministerial Exception Protects Religious Institutions from Government Interference The … exception? The Supreme Court has long recognized that the First Amendment protects the right of religious institutions … in an encroachment by the State into an area of religious freedom which it is forbidden to enter by the principles of …

… Lutheran Wins! Supreme Court Rules Missouri Engaged in Religious Discrimination Trinity Lutheran Church was treated … because it is religious. Written by Alliance Defending Freedom Published October 17, 2017 Revised November 30, 2022 … is church—a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.   Who is Trinity Lutheran Church? Trinity …

… game is protected under the First Amendment both as religious exercise and as private speech. Read the press … 2014 case McCullen v. Coakley , which Alliance Defending Freedom filed and helped fund, the Supreme Court ruled that … right that wrong.   Image John Bursch Senior Counsel, Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch is senior counsel …

… the state of Maine cannot exclude students who attend religious schools from a government program in which they are … Court heard oral arguments in an important religious freedom case from Maine called Carson v. Makin . The Supreme … of Maine argued (and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit agreed) that it can deny parents the ability to …

… Revised September 19, 2022 One of the biggest obstacles to religious liberty that I have seen in my years litigating First Amendment cases since 1984 has been the extreme … director of strategic engagement with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he plays a key role with the Strategic …

… for Marriage Act’ undermines marriage and threatens religious freedom and free speech. Written by Gregory S. Baylor … Published November 3, 2022 Revised December 14, 2022 President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law …

… What Is a Nonprofit? Alliance Defending Freedom is a nonprofit organization. What does that mean? … and legislation like the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 first referenced charitable organizations as tax-exempt in … by law. Decades ago, the legal and cultural threats to religious freedom began multiplying. And for many years, very …

… human sexuality and gender. Written by Alliance Defending Freedom Published November 21, 2023 Revised December 18, 2023 … from its tuition assistance program because they were religious to barring access to its Dual Enrollment Program … at those schools, Vermont has repeatedly violated the First Amendment. Now, despite a federal appeals court victory …

… to its convictions. Written by Alliance Defending Freedom Published April 26, 2022 Revised January 12, 2024 You … sterilization, and contraception—regardless of their religious or moral convictions. If they refused, they faced … penalties under the Affordable Care Act. A number of religious business owners, including Hobby Lobby and ADF …