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No April Fool’s Day for Religious Freedom
April 1 wasn’t a Fool’s Day for religious freedom in Kentucky. In Nelson v. Baker, the Court of Appeals soundly rejected a claim by former members of First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown, Kentucky...
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Bronx Household of Faith Case Appealed En Banc To All Second Circuit Judges
Blog by Jordan Lorence – ADF Sr. VP; Sr. Counsel The Alliance Defense Fund has petitioned the Second Circuit to rehear the Bronx Household of Faith case en banc, which means that all eleven judges...
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Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #4 Church Autonomy
This fourth installment in our series on legal concerns affecting churches addresses governmental interference with church affairs. The church is the primary obstacle to attempts to erode the moral...
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Good News! Americans United for Separation of Church and State admits the...
In a recent post on the Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s website, Charles C. Haynes, a scholar in First Amendment issues, was quoted as saying “that the actual words ‘separation of...
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USAToday Column Proposes Cleansing Politics of Religion
A recent column in USAToday titled “5 rules for faith and politics 2012” proposes rules the authors say would avoid both theocracy and hostility toward religion. But all they succeed in doing is...
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Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue #9 Housing Allowance
The long standing tax provision that permits churches to provide pastors with a non-taxable housing allowance was recently challenged in the case Freedom from Religion Foundation v. Geitner in a...
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Top Legal Issues That Concern Churches – Issue # 10 Financial Oversight
For many years, U.S. Senate Finance Committee member Charles Grassley (R-IA), has been looking into the financial practices of large media-based Christian ministries. Although he has not yet proposed...
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Another National Day of Prayer Victory
On December 12, Judge Silver, a federal judge in Arizona, threw out a claim that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer violated the Establishment Clause by issuing day of prayer proclamations in observance of...
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Supreme Court Affirms – A Church Should Determine Who Its Ministers Are, Not...
The Supreme Court just handed down a fantastic ruling affirming the right of churches to employ only those individuals that share their beliefs and live their lives according to the teaching of the...
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Press Misunderstands the Importance of Recent Supreme Court Case
I recently explained the importance of the Supreme Court’s decision affirming a church’s right to control whom it employs as a teacher in its religious school in a post you can read here....
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Churches on the Sidelines?
Have you ever considered how vital churches are to the community? Throughout history, churches have established hospitals, founded schools, operated drug and alcohol recovery programs, supported women...
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European Court of Human Rights Issues Landmark Ruling Protecting Church Autonomy
By Roger Kiska, Senior Legal Counsel Things operate a bit different in Europe when it comes to churches. Europe does not have a history of a strict separation of church and state where the state does...
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