Sentences with phrase «of lawsuits against religious»

In 2011, she voted against gay marriage because, «I thought the bill would have the unintended consequences of lawsuits against religious institutions that did not want to perform the marriages,» she said.

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Most of the action has been on the for - profit side (43 cases and counting), where — out of the 38 lawsuits decided on the merits of their complaints — 32 have secured temporary bans against the mandate's enforcement and 6 have been denied, according to a helpful scorecard kept by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

InterVarsity has long had a strict policy that its leadership can only identify as Christian, and the lawsuit against Wayne State articulated that the action to dismiss the organization is a violation of religious freedom.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

The Catholic Church has argued that the 90 - day requirement is biased since current law gives an adult who was abused as a child up to the age of 23 to bring a lawsuit against religious organizations, the Boy Scouts and other private and nonprofit institutions.

The lawsuit alleges that the park expressly discriminated against Snelling because of his creationist beliefs and by doing so violated Snelling's constitutional rights and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In 2013, the parents of two students at a school in Encinitas, California filed a lawsuit against the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) claiming that yoga is a religious practice that should not be taught in public schools.

DOJ attorneys at the end of May dropped their representation of state Superintendent Tony Evers in a lawsuit brought by a private religious school and the parents of students there against a Washington County school district and the DPI over a decision to refuse to provide the students transportation to the school.

DOJ attorneys at the end of May dropped their representation of state Superintendent Tony Evers in a lawsuit brought by a private religious school and the parents of students there against a Washington County school district and DPI over a decision to refuse to provide the students transportation to the school.

To end Washington's discrimination against special needs kids in religious schools — and to vindicate the rights of parents to choose their children's schools from a wide array of options, including public, private and religious schools — the Institute for Justice Washington Chapter filed a federal constitutional lawsuit challenging the special education ban.

And now that these lawyers have emptied those deep Roman Catholic pockets, Tillers writes, «we can expect to see — and I think we are seeing — an increasing number of sex abuse lawsuits against Protestant clergy and churches, Jewish clergy and organizations, other religious organizations and their clergy... and — eventually — educators (regardless of religious persuasion) and those who employ educators.»

Legal experts predict a flood of lawsuits against individuals, small businesses and religious groups.

Judges have routinely invoked the ministerial exception to dismiss lawsuits against religious employers by rabbis, ministers, cantors, nuns and priests — those «whose ministry is a core expression of religious belief for that congregation,» as Mr. McNicholas put it.