Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued rulings in two significant cases involving religious liberty. Here is what you should know about those cases. The case: Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru The background: In this case, a teacher’s contract was discontinued due to exhibiting poor performance. The teacher sued in federal court claiming …
Continue...Under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, Congress prohibited covered health plans and programs from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability, the classes long recognized under our civil rights laws. However, in May 2016, the Obama administration issued new regulations that expanded the scope of section 1557’s …
Continue...On Tuesday, a federal judge in Las Vegas refused to grant an injunction to void Nevada’s 50-person attendance cap on all religious gatherings. Two churches, Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley and Calvary Chapel Lone Mountain, asked the court for an injunction claiming that the state’s COVID-19 restrictions on religious gatherings were unconstitutional. They also claimed that religious …
Continue...A deeply disturbing situation is brewing in Alabama. This week both the Birmingham Board of Education and the Birmingham Housing Authority took steps to distance themselves from the nondenominational Church of the Highlands, which has more than 20 campuses and is the largest church in the state of Alabama. The church had been renting space …
Continue...ERLC President Russell Moore joins the roundtable to catch up with Jeff Pickering, Chelsea Patterson Sobolik, and Travis Wussow, on some of the big stories in American life from the past three months. This episode is sponsored by The Good Book Company, publisher of Talking Points: Abortion by Dr Lizzie Ling & Vaughan Roberts Resources …
Continue...Since the COVID-19 pandemic began to disrupt life in the United States several months ago, governments across the country have taken aggressive action to combat the spread of the coronavirus and mitigate its effects. At various points over the last several weeks, it has become clear that some of these actions have needlessly imperiled religious …
Continue...Dr. Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptists' Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, says he's been pleased to see that most churches nationwide have complied with public health guidance during the crisis. "I think that's the real story here is how well congregations and governments have been working together so far," he told CBN News. …
Continue...For members of the Southern Baptist Convention, when and how to resume in-person worship “would be a congregation-by-congregation decision,” Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said in a recent interview about the draft CDC guidance. Moore predicted that some virtual worship would continue even as areas resume in-person gatherings. Part of …
Continue...Read part 1 here. Like an outwardly working concentric circle, religious liberty hinges upon an understanding of (1) individual assent, (2) group association, and (3) institutional distinction. These are reflected in the practices of individual conversion and regenerate church membership, which entails a distinction between membership in the church and membership in society, and the …
Continue...Today, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in yet another case involving the Little Sisters of the Poor, religious liberty, and the government’s contraception mandate. The scene of the court’s remote proceedings was new, with the public able to listen live, but the arguments were like a judicial version of Bill …
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