Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:
- A Pennsylvania district court judge blocked the Trump administration’s exemptions from the federal birth control rules from taking effect.
- Ohio’s new governor Mike DeWine signed an executive order barring anti-LGBT discrimination in state employment.
- The 10thCircuit held that the white supremacist Church of the Creator does not qualify as a religion.
- The European Court of Human Rights found that Greece violated a prohibition on discrimination by applying Islamic religious law to an inheritance dispute.
- Karen Pence returned to teaching art at a private Christian school that does not allow gay students and requires employees to affirm that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
- 124 House members introduced the Freedom of Religion Act to prohibit religious discrimination in our immigration system.
- A jury awarded a Miami hotel dishwasher $21.5 million, finding that her employer violated her religious rights by scheduling her to work on Sundays and ultimately firing her.
- Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh expressed concern over mass conversions and called for a national debate on the issue.
- A Florida lawmaker filed a bill requiring Bible study classes to be offered as an elective in public schools.
- Indiana governor Eric Holcomb called for a hate crimes law to target crimes fueled by biases over race, religion, and sexual orientation.
- A freelance religious teacher and his student have been issued restriction orders by the Singaporean government.
This book note writes itself. Douglas Laycock is a leading scholar of religious freedom and a renowned Supreme Court advocate. He also gave the keynote at the very first symposium our Center sponsored,