As I have detailed in previous pieces, an ongoing battle rages over parental rights to direct the upbringing of their children. The latest skirmish in this fight is Mahmoud v. McKnight, a dispute from Montgomery County, Maryland. In Mahmoud, an interfaith coalition of Muslim, Eastern […]
A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Vermont reflects the ongoing erosion of parental rights at the hands of the judiciary and school officials. On July 26, 2024, in Politella v. Windham Southeast School […]
A federal trial court has refused to dismiss key claims that leaders in a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus, a national Catholic fraternal service organization, filed against the Town Commission in Fairfield, Connecticut. […]
Anti-religious discrimination continues unabated in Maine two years after the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Carson v. Makin. That ruling prevented officials from excluding faith-based schools from the state’s “tuitioning” program, which assists families in rural […]
In the early morning hours of August 1, 2024, after a conference committee from the two chambers of the Massachusetts legislature reconciled the differing versions of the forty-two-page House Bill 4750, both the House (156-0) and Senate […]
Recent litigation from Michigan and New Jersey, involving different factual settings focused on the same underlying issues regarding religious freedom in education, reveal two widely varying degrees of respect for the ministerial exception, which affords […]
On July 15, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed the radical progressive law Assembly Bill 2955 into effect. As I discussed in an earlier column, the deceptively named “Support Academic Futures and Educator Today’s Youth […]
Recent litigation suggests that a return to sanity may be in the offing over puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors wanting “gender-affirming care” as they seek to transition. On June 24, 2024, shortly after South […]
In September 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 107 into law, making California a sanctuary state offering shelter to transgender children and their parents who leave jurisdictions restricting access to gender-affirming care to minors. The state senate has now approved […]
St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton v. Roy is another win, albeit a narrow one, for religious freedom in education. Administrators in two Catholic preschools, along with parishioner-parents of two children attending St. Mary preschool […]
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