Topic: U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that religious groups cannot use public schools facilities for worship services outside of normal school hours in a case about church-state separation.The justices refused to review the ruling by ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court considered on Wednesday whether the federal government can examine employment practices of religious groups, a case raising important church-state separation issues.The high court appeared to struggle with how to draw the line in such cases so ...
Religion News in BriefThe Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is the latest diocese in the U.S. to announce that it must freeze pensions for workers.The change will hit about 10,000 church secretaries, parochial school teachers and other lay employees in the Boston ...
Manywell meaning Christians in the United States misconstrue the meaning ofthe First Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of theEstablishment and Free Exercise clause, which partially reads: United States (1892)opponents of the separation of church and State contend that thisCountry was ...
Federal Courts?"The morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity, and not upon doctrines or worship of other religions" United States Supreme Court, 1892?"The morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of ...
Church and State both took tentative strides towards granting gays and lesbians greater rights yesterday. In Massachusetts a federal judge overturned the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage. Though the Obama administration has made ...
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to religious liberty yesterday. " According to the Court inclusion in a population widely defined by the State holds sway over a population narrowly defined by a private organization. In short, a religious body ...
In a brief before the US Supreme Court, the Obama administration has backed the Vatican's claim of immunity from a lawsuit brought against an alleged pedophile priest in the United States.In a filing made Friday, the solicitor general's office argued that the ...
The Obama administration in a brief to the Supreme Court has backed the Vatican's claim of immunity from lawsuits arising from cases of sexual abuse by priests in the United States.The Supreme Court is considering an appeal by the Vatican of an ...
to add attorney responses: the Obama administration, in a brief filed by Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, has sided with the Vatican in the 2002 Oregon lawsuit pending SCOTUS review over sex abuse claims, saying that the Holy See ...
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