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Religious objections opt-out for counselors advances

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A rule allowing Arkansas counselors to refer patients to another provider over religious objections is advancing, sparking criticism that the move could deny mental health ...
JD Supra

Religious Accommodations Under Scrutiny

Six months into the new Trump administration, it is clear that the EEOC is concentrating its efforts on religious discrimination in the workplace. Since President Trump’s inauguration, 25% of the new ...
JD Supra

Accommodating an Employee’s Sincerely Held Religious Belief – A Pennsylvania District Court Offers a Roadmap

Employers may consider if the sincerely held religious belief is based upon secular beliefs by evaluating how the employee frames their request, but still, employers should do so cautiously A recent ...
OPB

Federal appeals court backs dismissal of religious challenge to Oregon COVID testing rule

Plaintiff’s lawyer vows to continue fighting the case as more cases addressing COVID safety mandates await potential Supreme Court consideration An Oregon woman failed to convince a federal appeals ...
STAT

What’s so religious about opposing vaccines?

Anderson is a postdoctoral researcher in population health and demography at Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute. Signaling support for several New York Amish families, the ...
Reason

Religious Employment and Title VII: Part 5—Common Objections to a Textualist Reading of Title VII's Religious Employer Exemption

Critics object that a textualist interpretation of Section 702 would open the door to racial discrimination. Not so. Section 702 exempts a religious employer from Title VII only when it selects an ...
Reason

Excluding Religious School That "Forfeited a Girls' Playoff Basketball Game to Avoid Playing a Team with a Transgender Athlete" Violated Free Exercise Clause

So the Second Circuit held today, concluding that the facts surrounding this particular exclusion showed hostility to religion, and not just the neutral application of generally applicable rules. From ...
The New York Times

State Court Rules School Vaccine Law Can’t Bar Religious Exemptions

The decision was handed down by a judge in West Virginia, which has one of the country’s strictest school vaccination laws and one of the highest vaccination rates. By Campbell Robertson Campbell ...
WAMC

Birth Control At The Supreme Court: Does Free Coverage Violate Religious Freedom?

The rights of the religious and the secular clash again Wednesday at the Supreme Court, this time in the controversial context of Obamacare and birth control. The health care law sought to equalize ...
West Virginia MetroNews

What’s a religious exemption and what’s a philosophical one? Even the lawyers see that differently

The judge in a vaccine exemptions case that resumes this week asked lawyers to complete some homework about a central question that is also existential: How would you differentiate between religious ...
ABC 7 Chicago

PHOTOS: Thousands protest Indiana religious objections law

AP Photo/Doug McSchooler INDIANAPOLIS -- Thousands of opponents of Indiana's religious objections law, which was signed by Gov. Mike Pence earlier this week, gather to protest on the front lawn of the ...