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Southwest Airlines lawyers ordered to complete religious-liberty training run by a conservative Christian legal group kicking off debate over religious free speech
A judge ordered three Southwest Airlines lawyers to attend training sessions with a conservative Ch…
Polly Thompson  Â
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Evangelicals say Ron DeSantis is threatening religious liberty with his support for a bill that criminalizes aid for immigrants
A group of Florida evangelicals on Thursday spoke out against a bill that would make it a crime to …
Charles R. Davis  Â
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ACLU hails first 'After-School Satan Club' meeting at Virginia elementary school 'a victory for free speech and religious liberty'
The club, sponsored by The Satanic Temple, was proposed as a club for non-Christian students in res…
Sarah Al-Arshani  Â
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Supreme Court considers religious freedoms in a case that could narrow the separation between church and state
Two families turned to Maine's tuition-assistance program to enroll their kids in faith-based schoo…
Oma Seddiq  Â
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Supreme Court blocks some COVID-19 restrictions at religious services in New York, marking a shift from decisions made before Amy Coney Barrett joined the bench
The judgment marks the significance of Coney Barrett's addition to the bench as cementing the court…
Kelsey Vlamis  Â
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How Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, a supporter of 'parental rights' in schools, got caught in a sex scandal that may push her to resign from a school board
Bridget and Christian Ziegler are embroiled in a sex scandal that may cost them their positions in …
Katie Balevic  Â
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The Supreme Court heard a case concerning LGBTQ rights and religious liberty about one week after Amy Coney Barrett joined the bench
The case represents a "legal supernova clash" between the rights of LGBTQ people and the First Amen…
Kelsey Vlamis  Â
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Supreme Court strikes down ban on state funding for religious education, a major win for religious interests
"This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers…
Oma Seddiq  Â
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito suggests religious liberty is under threat by same-sex marriage and COVID-19 restrictions
Conservatives have a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, but Alito's remarks implied that they're a …
John Haltiwanger  Â
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How the evangelical Christian right seeded the false, yet surprisingly resilient, theory that vaccines contain microchips
Conservative Christian groups have linked the vaccine to the Biblical 'Mark of the Beast' for decad…
Tom Porter  Â
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A former CVS nurse practitioner is suing the company after it fired her for refusing to prescribe birth control and Plan B for religious reasons
"It is not possible to grant an accommodation that exempts an employee from performing the essentia…
Bethany Biron  Â
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Cheerleader at the center of Supreme Court free speech case says she felt 'isolated' when her school punished her for cursing on Snapchat
"I felt like I couldn't express how I felt without getting in trouble," says Brandi Levy, who was s…
Jacob Shamsian  Â
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Kids in cages: What family separation was, what happened to the children, and what the Biden administration can do today
The ACLU's Lee Gelernt sits down with Insider to discuss the Trump administration's family separati…
Charles Davis  Â
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Here's what's in Trump's 'religious liberty' executive order
The order does two things: it weakens rarely enforced regulations on the political speech and activ…
Eliza Relman  Â
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Federal judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Navy SEALs who refused COVID-19 vaccines on religious grounds
The First Liberty Institute, representing 35 Naval Special Warfare sailors, sued the DOD in Novembe…
Bill Bostock  Â
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Justice Gorsuch called a high-school football coach's on-field prayer 'quiet' and 'personal' as the Supreme Court sided with religious rights. Sotomayor said that description 'misconstrues the facts.'
Justice Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's decision to side with a praying football coach would for…
Rebecca Cohen,Oma Seddiq  Â
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Justice Gorsuch called a high-school football coach's on-field prayer 'quiet' and 'personal' as the Supreme Court sided with religious rights. Sotomayor said that description 'misconstrues the facts.'
Justice Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's decision to side with a praying football coach would for…
Rebecca Cohen  Â
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Georgia's governor will veto a 'religious liberty' bill that spurred a corporate backlash
The law would have also let faith-based organizations cite religious beliefs when making employment…
Mark Abadi,Dan Turkel  Â
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Her father died from COVID-19. Now she's grappling with her family's church supporting religious exemptions from the vaccine.
Uel Trejo, 20, said as soon as her pastor spoke about religious exemptions from the pulpit, "people…
Katie Balevic  Â
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Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of Catholic foster agency in case that pitted religious freedom against LGBTQ rights
SCOTUS ruled in favor of a Catholic child welfare organization in a case in which the charity decli…