Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:
- A New York federal judge ruled in a narrow decision that anti-abortion protesters’ religious “sidewalk counseling” outside a medical clinic is protected under the First Amendment.
- Around 350 representatives from 80 countries gathered to kick off the first ever “Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom” at the State Department to combat religious persecution.
- A Michigan funeral home filed petition for a writ of certiorari with U.S. Supreme Court to review a 6th Circuit decision rejecting a religious freedom defense raised by the funeral home after firing transgender employee for violating the business’s dress code.
- A Canadian judge ruled that a law preventing charities from devoting more than 10% of their resources to political activities infringes on their constitutional right to free expression.
- A Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court remanded a case involving an Amish woman who refused to connect to a sewer system because the trial court ignored federal and state religious protections.
- A New York lawsuit argues that a law made specifically for Orthodox Jewish schools’ modified curriculum violates First Amendment.
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might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Yet after his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence.