{"id":214,"date":"2021-11-12T00:53:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/how-we-protect-religious-freedom\/legal-resources\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T04:13:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T08:13:46","slug":"legal-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/how-we-protect-religious-freedom\/legal-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Americans United\u2019s legal staff are experts in church-state and religious-freedom law. Learn more about important recent church-state decisions and key religious-freedom issues that we work on.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021)<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>The Court issued a narrow decision exempting a religious, taxpayer-funded foster-care agency from a city nondiscrimination requirement that had barred the agency from turning away LGBTQ parents.<\/p>

Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru (2020):<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a>The Court expanded the ability of religious schools to lawfully discriminate against their employees using a legal doctrine known as the ministerial exception.<\/p>

Trump v. Pennsylvania (2020):<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a>The Court upheld a broad religious exemption from regulations requiring employer and university health-insurance plans to cover contraceptives.<\/p>

Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue (2020):<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>The Court ruled that if a state decides to create a private-school voucher program, it must fund private religious schools along with private secular schools.<\/p>

Bostock v. Clayton County (2020):<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>After the Court\u2019s ruling that federal civil-rights law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, will religious extremists be able to weaponize religion to undermine LGBTQ rights?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A Hollow History Test: Why Establishment Clause Cases Should Not Be Decided through Comparisons with Historical Practices<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by Alex J. Luchenitser & Sarah R. Goetz, 68 Catholic University Law Review 653 (2019).<\/p>

Symposium: Cross purposes \u2014 Why a Christian symbol can\u2019t memorialize all war dead<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by Richard B. Katskee, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 13, 2018).<\/p>

\u201cReligious Freedom\u201d as a Tool to Oppress: The Explosion in Religion-Based Attacks on Civil Rights in Litigation<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by Alex J. Luchenitser, 2016 Social Sciences 5, 52 (Sept. 2016).<\/p>

Symposium: Religious freedom, not religious discrimination<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Richard B. Katskee, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 11, 2016).<\/p>

A New Era of Inequality? Hobby Lobby and Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Law<\/a>s<\/strong><\/em>, by Alex J. Luchenitser, 9 Harvard Law & Policy Review 63 (Winter 2015).<\/p>

Hobby Lobby Symposium: Your God is bigger than my God<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by Ayesha Khan, SCOTUSblog (June 30, 2014).<\/p>

Beating Plowshares Into Swords<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by Richard B. Katskee, Human Rights (Jan. 2013).<\/p>

\u201cInnerChange\u201d: Conversion as the Price of Freedom and Comfort\u2014A Cautionary Tale About the Pitfalls of Faith-Based Prison Units<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Alex J. Luchenitser, 6 Ave Maria Law Review 445 (Spring 2008).<\/p>

Science, Intersubjective Validity, and Judicial Legitimacy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by Richard B. Katskee, 73 Brooklyn L. Rev. 857 (2008).<\/p>

Why it Mattered to Dover that Intelligent Design Isn\u2019t Science<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Richard B. Katskee, 4 First Amend. L. Rev. 112 (2006).<\/p>

Paying for Praying: What\u2019s Wrong with the Faith-Based Initiative<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by Richard B. Katskee, Human Rights (Summer 2006).<\/p>

Casting Aside the Constitution: The Trend Toward Government Funding of Religious Social Service Providers<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by Alex J. Luchenitser, 35 Clearinghouse Review 615 (Jan.-Feb. 2002).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legal Resources Americans United\u2019s legal staff are experts in church-state and religious-freedom law. Learn more about important recent church-state decisions and key religious-freedom issues that we work on. Americans United analyses of recent Supreme Court decisions Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021):\u00a0The Court issued a narrow decision exempting a religious, taxpayer-funded foster-care agency from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":191,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"issue_tax":[],"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_tax?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}