U.S. Supreme Court
Spiritual advisers offering final comfort in execution rooms
By Jim Salter — February 6, 2023
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Supreme Court ruling last March requires states to allow spiritual advisers to join condemned inmates in their final moments.
White Christian nationalism isn’t pro-life. It’s pro-order.
By Andrew Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry — January 19, 2023
(RNS) — In the Christian nationalist vision, abortion is not a choice but a violation of a collective moral fabric.
The Hanukkah dreidel and America’s gambling problem
By Joshua Hammerman — December 15, 2022
(RNS) — Religious institutions were not prepared for the gambling explosion. We need to catch up.
Indiana judge backs a religious right to abort
By Mark Silk — December 7, 2022
(RNS) — And poses a serious challenge to the Supreme Court’s religious liberty jurisprudence.
Both sides see high stakes in gay rights Supreme Court case
By Jessica Gresko — December 4, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The case marks the second time in five years that the Supreme Court has confronted the issue of a business owner who says their religion prevents them from creating works for a gay wedding.
In Indiana, a legal victory for religious liberty over fetal personhood
By Mark Silk — November 4, 2022
(RNS) — The Supreme Court will soon have to reckon with its majority's expansive interpretation of free exercise of religion.
Will the Supreme Court recognize a religious right to abortion?
By Mark Silk — October 26, 2022
(RNS) — We’ll find out soon enough.
How the threat of ‘taxpayer-funded abortion’ is being used to mobilize conservative religious voters
By Ruth Braunstein — October 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — In the midterms, some religious voters may be motivated by the argument that if abortion is funded with tax dollars, it makes them personally complicit in sin.
Supreme Court declines to hear Rhode Island fetal personhood case
By Jack Jenkins — October 12, 2022
(RNS) — The move is a setback for supporters of the idea that an unborn fetus is entitled to full constitutional rights.
Tribes ask US Supreme Court to hear case over destruction of sacred land in Oregon
By Alejandra Molina — October 6, 2022
(RNS) — The sacred site at issue is known as Ana Kwna Nchi Nchi Patat (the ‘Place of Big Big Trees’), an acre of land that consisted of a burial ground, campground, old-growth trees and an ancient stone altar.
Yeshiva University halts clubs amid high court LGBTQ ruling
By Associated Press — September 19, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize an LGBTQ student group, Yeshiva University officials said on Friday that they will halt all undergraduate student club activity.
Erasing pro-life Christians of color
By Charles C. Camosy — August 30, 2022
(RNS) — A post-Dobbs narrative breezily associates all anti-abortion activism and policies with racism.
In ruling for the praying football coach, what did the Supreme Court really say?
By Thomas Reese — August 10, 2022
(RNS) — Does the decision protect private, personal prayer, or is it the camel’s nose for more prayer in schools?
Paul Raushenbush: ‘Christian nationalism is a threat to the American way of life’
By Yonat Shimron — July 22, 2022
(RNS) — The new leader of the Interfaith Alliance wants to fight for an America that is welcoming and inclusive of all faiths and no faith.
A new survey found Latino Catholics overwhelmingly support abortion rights. Here’s why.
By Alejandra Molina — July 18, 2022
(RNS) — With Roe v. Wade overturned, new data from the Washington, D.C.-based Public Religion Research Institute found that among Latino Catholics, 75% say abortion should be legal in most or all cases. That’s a big jump from the 51% who said so in 2010.
