Do the Religious Beliefs of Supreme Court Justices Influence Their Decisions?A MOMENT SYMPOSIUM WITH ROBERT BARNES LYLE DENNISTON TONY MAURO SARAH POSNER ...Breger, SarahCooper, MarilynGross, Rachel ESchwartz, Amy E
In June 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, known as the Roe v Wade ruling, leaving the decision to individual states. As a result, 14 of the 50 US states banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy with very limited exceptions...
In addition, a belief does not need to be stated in traditional terms to fall within First Amendment protection. For example, Scientology—a system of beliefs that a human being is essentially a free and immortal spirit who merely inhabits a body—does not propound the existence of a supreme...
Religious freedom has traditionally meant more than simply the ability to practice one’s beliefs unencumbered, free from state interference. It is a condition that lives alongside other important democratic values – such as equal rights and a separation of church and state. But the Supreme Court...
Roberts goes on to acknowledge the importance of affirming LGBT people but says there must also be room for people with conflicting religious beliefs. "We do not doubt that this interest is a weighty one, for “[o]ur society has come to the recognition that gay persons and gay couple...
who hold different beliefs on many matters. Our public morality, then -- the moral standards we maintain for everyone, not just the ones we insist on in our private lives -- depends on a consensus view of right and wrong. The values derived from religious belief will not -- and should ...
The Carsons wanted to use the tuition program to pay for their daughter's schooling at Bangor Christian School, while the Nelsons wanted to send their son to Temple Academy, which aligns with their religious beliefs. Neither of the two schools are eligible for the stat...
He or she undertakes to help create conditions under which all can live with a maximum of dignity and with a reasonable degree of freedom; where everyone who chooses may hold beliefs different from specifically Catholic ones, sometimes even contradictory to them; where the laws protect people's ...
Supreme Court heard arguments in a high-profile case seeking to alter employers’ obligations to accommodate workers’ religious observances. Federal law currently requires covered employers to reasonably accommodate employees’ sincerely held religious beliefs — unless doing so would create an “undue ...
"It is the beliefs of the two religions that determines whether or not their schools are going to get the funds or not. And we have said that that is the most basic violation of the First Amendment religion clauses, for the government to draw distinctions between religions based on their ...