Civil Rights Act
Atheist and agnostic fired for not attending company prayers win $50K in suit
By Yonat Shimron — August 7, 2023
(RNS) — The two workers declined to participate in a daily prayer circle as the company owner read from Scripture.
SCOTUS corrects an old mistake on religious rights
By Mark Silk — July 5, 2023
(RNS) — Liberal justices of the past would applaud a 9-0 decision in favor of religious pluralism.
Supreme Court ruling in favor of mail carrier celebrated across religious spectrum
By Yonat Shimron — June 29, 2023
(RNS) — Many U.S. religious minorities said the ruling was a much-needed corrective to the challenges they face in balancing their work with their sincerely held religious practices.
Conservative Christians aren’t the only ones asking for accommodation in mailman case
By Yonat Shimron — April 18, 2023
(RNS) — Religious minorities — Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Seventh-day Adventists — have filed briefs asking the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that gutted a civil rights statute’s protections for religious accommodation.
Christian finance expert Dave Ramsey sued for religious discrimination
By Bob Smietana — December 13, 2021
(RNS) — A former Ramsey employee says his religious beliefs teach him to trust science and protect his family. That allegedly put him in conflict with his COVID-skeptic boss.
Randall Balmer on why racism, not abortion, birthed the religious right
By Yonat Shimron — September 22, 2021
(RNS) — In his new book, he shows it was government interference in ‘segregation academies’ such as Bob Jones University that sparked the growth of the religious right. Opposition to abortion was an afterthought.
Black religious leaders, stand with our LGBTQ family
By Cornel West and Frederick A. Davie — March 30, 2021
(RNS) — Black LGBTQ leaders have labored alongside us so that all Black Americans could experience equality.
Study: Americans overwhelmingly support LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws
By Yonat Shimron — March 23, 2021
(RNS) — The 2020 American Values Atlas study from PRRI finds that at least 60% of every U.S. religious group favors laws that would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. But religious leaders are another matter.
Supreme Court broadens scope of ministerial exception
By Yonat Shimron — July 8, 2020
(RNS) — The ruling allows religious schools to include lay teachers as among those subject to an exemption from civil rights laws that give workers the ability to sue for sexual harassment, overtime pay, equal pay and a myriad of other protections.
Religious conservatives look to the next Supreme Court rulings on religious liberty
By Yonat Shimron — June 17, 2020
(RNS) — They hope to carve out significant wins in a series of cases, including ones dealing with the ministerial exception, abortion and public funding for religious schools.
Why North Carolina’s unprecedented exemption is wrong for America (COMMENTARY)
By Jay Michaelson — June 12, 2015
(RNS) The courthouse is not a religious space, and the magistrate is not acting in a religious capacity. She is doing her job, which she took an oath to do.
Supreme Court wrestles with accommodating religious faith on the job
By Lauren Markoe — February 25, 2015
(RNS) A fashionista teen wears her headscarf to an Abercrombie & Fitch interview and doesn't get the job. Now her religious freedom case is the Supreme Court's to decide.
Prayer discount no longer on the menu at North Carolina diner
By Heather Adams — August 7, 2014
(RNS) Mary's Gourmet Diner has stopped offering 15 percent discounts for praying customers after the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote to the owner to stop, calling it a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
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