wingrider
01-21-2012, 04:36 PM
For Immediate Release January 11, 2012
Today the Supreme Court decided its most important religious liberty case in twenty years, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The government lost 9-nothing as the Court unanimously rejected its narrow view of religious liberty as “extreme,” “untenable” and “remarkable.”
The unanimous decision adopted the Becket Fund’s arguments, saying that religious groups should be free from government interference when they choose their leaders. The church, Hosanna-Tabor, was represented by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Professor Douglas Laycock, University of Virginia Law School. For years, churches have relied on a “ministerial exception” which protects them from employment discrimination lawsuits by their ministers.
http://www.becketfund.org/supreme-court-sides-with-church-in-landmark-first-amendment-ruling/
wow .. I am impressed , a unanimous decicision by teh Supreme court that the Government cannot tell achurch who it can fire or fire. I mean they actually followedthe constitution and cited the reasons why the feds are in the wrong.. maybe there is a glimmer of hope left in ths country after all.
Today the Supreme Court decided its most important religious liberty case in twenty years, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The government lost 9-nothing as the Court unanimously rejected its narrow view of religious liberty as “extreme,” “untenable” and “remarkable.”
The unanimous decision adopted the Becket Fund’s arguments, saying that religious groups should be free from government interference when they choose their leaders. The church, Hosanna-Tabor, was represented by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Professor Douglas Laycock, University of Virginia Law School. For years, churches have relied on a “ministerial exception” which protects them from employment discrimination lawsuits by their ministers.
http://www.becketfund.org/supreme-court-sides-with-church-in-landmark-first-amendment-ruling/
wow .. I am impressed , a unanimous decicision by teh Supreme court that the Government cannot tell achurch who it can fire or fire. I mean they actually followedthe constitution and cited the reasons why the feds are in the wrong.. maybe there is a glimmer of hope left in ths country after all.