Ruling protects Christian ministries
The Supreme Court has affirmed and clarified the “ministerial exception” rule to include lay people, stating that employees don’t have to be ordained to be considered religiously significant. The Court ruled 7-2 Wednesday that two ...
The U.S. Supreme Court gave religious liberty advocates a victory yesterday. The decision came in the case of Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Montana’s no aid clause, also known ...
The following stories had the most page views at the MinistryWatch website during the month of June. We present them here in a “countdown” format, from 10 to 1.
The Supreme Court today struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.
A look ahead to the next round of religious liberty cases
Christian ministries were put into a kind of no-man’s-land as a result of last week’s Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ rights. In a 6-3 ruling on June 15, the Supreme Court said that the word “sex” in the ...
The Best Religion Coverage This Week, Plus Bob The Tomato
The Best Religion Coverage This Week, Plus Bob The Tomato
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the word “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act applies to sexuality and applies to LGBTQ persons. The ruling could have ...
