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Religion Clause
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... --US Const., Amend. 1
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8th Circuit: Freethinkers Have Standing To Challenge 10 Commandments Monument

In Red River Freethinkers v. City of Fargo, (8th Cir., May 25, 2012), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a organization dedicated to promoting atheist and agnostic views has standin...

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Paper Criticizes Candidate Roy Moores Involvement On Issue That May Come To State Supreme Court

An editorial in the Anniston, Alabama Star yesterday strongly criticized former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who is again a candidate for that position in the fall election, for becoming involved...

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Mary Ann Glendon Appointed To USCIRF

On Wednesday, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell appointed Mary Ann Glendon to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, according to a press release from USCIRF. Glendon ...

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California City Settles RLUIPA Suit With Buddhist Group

According to the Walnut Patch, the Walnut, California City Council voted Wednesday to approve a $900,000 settlement with the Chung Tai International Chan Buddhist Association in a RLUIPA lawsuit...

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Court Upholds Termination of Catholic School Principal, Rejecting Retaliatory Discharge Claim

In Petschonek v. Catholic Diocese of Memphis, 2012 Tenn. App. LEXIS 330 (TN App., May 23, 2012), a Tennessee state appeals court dismissed a retaliatory discharge claim brought by the forme...

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George Washingtons Letter On Religious Tolerance To Go Back On Public Display

CNN reported yesterday that George Washingtons famous 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, will go back on public display after sitting in storage for nearly a decade...

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President Objects To House Passed Defense Bills LGBT Related Provisions

The U.S House of Representatives last week passed, and sent to the Senate, HR 4310, the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (full text.)  The bill contains two provisions relating to same-se...

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New Hampshire High Court Upholds Partial Tax Exemption For Church Property

In Appeal of Liberty Assembly of God, (NH Sup. Ct., May 22, 2012), the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that under state statutory law, space in a house of worship must be used and occupied dire...

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Egyptian Court Convicts 12 Christians In Sectarian Violence; Acquits Muslims

On Monday, Egypts State Security Court sentenced 12  Christians to life in prison after they were found guilty of  sowing public strife, possessing illegal weapons and killing two Musl...

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Jury Holds Baptist Convention Liable For Abuse By Minister It Sponsored

The Orlando Sentinel and Louisville Courier Journal report on a jurys verdict last week in state court in Tavares, Florida, holding the Florida Baptist Convention liable for sexual abuse of a 13...

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Indias Parliament Allows Separate Registration of Sikh Marriages

The Tribune (Chandigarh, India) reports that both houses of Indias Parliament this week passed a long-pending amendment to the Anand Karaj Act 1909 that will now allow separate registration of Sikh m...

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Details on Mondays Lawsuits By Catholic Groups Challenging Health Insurance Mandate

As previously reported, on Monday 12 new lawsuits were filed around the country by over 40 Catholic institutions challenging the Obama administrations mandate requiring contraceptive coverage in heal...

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Article Faults Operation of School-Choice Scholarship Tax Credit Programs

Todays New York Times carries a long front-page story on abuses in school-choice scholarship tax credit programs. The programs generally give individuals or corporations tax credits for their donatio...

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Vatican Says Leaking Of Confidential Letters Was A Criminal Act

Reacting to a recently published book, the Vatican press office last week issued a statement saying: "The latest publication of documents of the Holy See and private documents of the Holy Father ...

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Group Claims Baptist Church Violated Limits On Non-Profit Political Involvement

According to a press release yesterday from Americans United, the organization has written the Internal Revenue Service (full text of letter) asking it to investigate whether a Kentucky Baptist churc...

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New Lawsuits Challenge Health Insurance Contraceptive Coverage Mandate

Politico reports that 12 new lawsuits were filed yesterday around the country by some 40 Catholic institutions challenging the Obama administrations mandate requiring contraceptive coverage in health...

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Move of Prayer To Precede City Council Meeting Draws Protest

Mount Vernon, Ohios city council has traditionally opened its 7:30 meetings with a prayer.  Yesterdays Columbus Dispatch reports that after council received a letter from atheist Ryan Kitko, a g...

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Polands Agriculture Minister Rejects Challenge To Ritual Slaughter

Polands Agricultural Minister Marek Sawicki said last week that he rejects demands of animal rights activists to end kosher and halal slaughter in Poland.  He says that ritual slaughter is ...

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Canon Lawsuit Planned Against Georgetown University Over Deviations From Doctrine

CNA yesterday reported on the petition posted online at the website  of the newly formed Father King Society to Make Georgetown Honest, Catholic and Better. Founded by Georgetown alumnus William...

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Recent Articles of Interest

From SSRN:Jill I. Goldenziel, Veiled Political Questions: Islamic Dress, Constitutionalism, and the Ascendance of Courts, (American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming).Jeremy Waldron, What is Na...

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Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases

In Mitchell v. Quarterman, (5th Cir., May 15, 2012), the 5th Circuit rejected an inmates religious objections to a prisons policy of permitting female guards to monitor male inmates while they shower...

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Article Explores Impact of Mormonism On Romneys Political Beliefs

Todays New York Times carries a long front-page article on the importance to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of his Mormon religious faith.  Romneys views in numerous are...

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Muslim Summer Camp Entitled To Tax Exemption

In Camp Retreats Foundation, Inc. v. Township of Marathon, (MI App., May 15, 2012), a Michigan state appellate court reversed the states Tax Tribunal and found that a Muslim summer camp is entit...

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2 New USCIRF Appointments Announced

According to a press release issued on Thursday by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom two new appointments to the 9-member Commission have recently been made. On May 11, Pres...

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Contribution To Church Denied Deductibility For Inadequate Receipt

In Durden v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, (T.C., May 17, 2012), the U.S. Tax Court denied a $25,171 tax deduction for contributions to the Nevertheless Community Church made in 2007 by Davi...

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Court Rejects Compelled Religious Speech Challenge To Oklahoma License Plates

In Cressman v. Thompson, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68236 (WD OK, May 16, 2012), and Oklahoma federal district court rejected a claim by an Oklahoma driver that the picture on the states standard lic...

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European Court Upholds Spains Firing of Married Priest As Teacher

In Fernández Martínez v. Spain, (ECHR, May 15 2012), (opinion in French, English press release) the European Court of Human Rights in a Chamber judgment (which is appealable to the Grand Ch...

18 maj 12

Kuwaits Emir Blocks Proposed Constitutional Amendment Requiring Islamic Law

According to a report today in The Peninsula, the Emir of Kuwait-- whose approval is needed for any constitutional change-- has blocked a proposal to amend the constitution to require all Kuwait...

18 maj 12

2nd Circuit Creates Fact-Specific Test For Constitutionality of Prayer At City Council Meetings

In Galloway v. Town of Greece, (2d Cir., May 17, 2012), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case of first impression for it, created an extremely fact-dependent test for determining the ...

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