Category: Religious Freedom
What Rights do Religious Employees Have in the Workplace?
What do you say and do when your employer makes it clear that you must celebrate “pride month” in some manner the company has planned,...
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Federal Judge Refuses to Protect High School Christian Club from Harassment, De-recognition
A federal judge has refused to order a school district in San Jose, California, to reinstate a student club, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA),...
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Christian Grad Student Sues University for Emotional Distress, Damage to Reputation
Maggie DeJong should be familiar to readers of The Daily Citizen. Earlier this year, we reported on the young woman’s experience as a graduate student...
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Two Years After Lockdown Orders, California County Still Seeking Millions in Fines from Worshipping Church
During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local governments issued lockdown and other mandates that heavily impacted churches and their ability to...
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Flight Attendants Fired for Questioning Alaska Airlines’ Support for LGBT Bill Sue for Religious Discrimination
In February 2021, two female flight attendants for Alaska Airlines, both Christians, read a company statement on an internal forum supporting the problematic Equality Act...
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Four Air Force Cadets May Not Graduate After Being Denied Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccination Order
Four seniors at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, have been warned that their continued refusal to submit to COVID-19 vaccinations following...
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Arizona Affirms Religious Freedom and Parental Rights
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed legislation ensuring that churches, clergy, religious organizations and people of faith cannot be discriminated against during a public emergency. In...
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Church-Owned School Fights Government Religious Hostility in Massachusetts
It is basic First Amendment law that the government may not discriminate against religious belief without a compelling reason. So, when government officials stonewall a...
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Finnish Member of Parliament is Acquitted of ‘Hate Speech’ for Quoting the Bible; Prosecutors May Appeal
In a case that has attracted international attention because of its free speech and human rights implications, a Finnish grandmother and member of Parliament has...
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Supreme Court Rules Against Navy SEALs Seeking Religious Exemptions from Vaccine Mandate
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against 35 members of the Naval Special Warfare community (NSWC), including 26 Navy SEALs, who had requested religious accommodations...
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District of Columbia’s Effort to Vaccinate Minors Behind Parents’ Backs Blocked by Federal Court
The City Council for the District of Columbia passed an ordinance in 2020 which allows students as young as 11 years old to obtain an...
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Another Faith-Based Foster Care Agency Wins in Michigan
The state of Michigan has agreed to settle a religious freedom discrimination lawsuit brought by Catholic Charities West Michigan in 2019 over the state’s attempt...
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Defense Secretary Asks Supreme Court to Block 5th Circuit Ruling Protecting Navy SEALs’ Religious Objections to Vaccine
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin has requested the U.S. Supreme Court stay (i.e., block) a lower court decision favoring 35 members of the...
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Christian Foster Parents Who Lost License over Biblical Beliefs May Sue, Federal Court Rules
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court decision dismissing a New Jersey couple’s lawsuit against the state after it removed...
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Two More Federal Courts Rule in Favor of Religious Objections to Military’s Vaccine Mandate
Our nation’s military servicemembers were ordered last September to receive COVID-19 vaccinations or be discharged. Some exemptions have been granted for medical and administrative reasons,...
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Supreme Court Turns Away Religious Hiring Case from Christian College – for Now
Gordon College, a Christian educational institution in Wenham, Massachusetts, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an employment dispute with one of its professors that...
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‘The Bible Stays and our Veterans Win’; Lawsuit over POW/MIA Display at VA Hospital Settles
Lawyers at First Liberty Institute have announced a settlement of a years-long litigation over a POW/MIA display at the Manchester Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MVAMC)...
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Pro-Life Nurse Wins $370,000 After Refusing to Assist with Abortions
Illinois might be one of the most liberal states in the country now, but in 1977 the state legislature had the good sense to pass...
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United Airlines’ ‘Coercion’ of Religious Employees over Vaccine Mandate ‘Irreparably Harmed’ Them – 5th Circuit
In an important religious freedom case, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has reversed a lower court and ruled that religious...
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Air Force Grants Nine Religious Exemptions from COVID-19 Vaccines
The United States Air Force has approved nine requests by airmen for exemptions from the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. These are the first requests the...
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Pro-Life Sidewalk Counselors in Greensboro, N.C., Win Settlement in Unlawful Arrest Case
A handful of Christians arrested in March and April 2020 for walking and praying in front of an abortion facility in Greensboro, North Carolina, have...
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City Orders Church to Stop Feeding the Homeless; Church Sues
There’s a familiar but sardonic saying that goes, “No good deed goes unpunished.” For one church in Brookings, Oregon, attempting to fulfill the Bible’s imperative...
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Cop Suspended for Praying at Abortion Clinic While Off-Duty Wins Cash Settlement
A 13-year veteran of the Louisville, Kentucky, police department has received a $75,000 settlement from the city for its wrongful suspension of the officer for...
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Michigan Faith-Based Adoption Agency Wins Big Settlement After State Tries to Shut Them Down
A recent legal victory for religious freedom in the case of a Philadelphia faith-based child-placement agency at the U.S. Supreme Court has now resulted in...
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