First Liberty Institute announced today that the West Ward (MI) Elementary students whose songs were nearly censored for their religious content will now be allowed to sing in the school talent show.
Today, at a White House ceremony celebrating the National Day of Prayer, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the President’s Religious Liberty Commission, and appointed Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO, and Chief Counsel to First Liberty as a member of the Commission.
News Release For Immediate Release: 5.1.25 Contact: John Manning, media@firstliberty.org Direct: 972-941-4453 Breaking: Michigan Elementary School Threatens to Censor Popular Brandon Lake Song From Student Talent Show School principal claims just days before audition that Christian student’s song choice is too religious. Allegan, MI—Late yesterday, First Liberty Institute sent a letter […]
Today, First Liberty Institute and attorneys from Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher, LLP, Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, and Spengler Nathanson presented argument in the Sixth District Court of Appeals of Ohio asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that would allow the City of Bryan to stop Dad’s Place’s efforts to serve people with desperate needs.
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral argument in St. Isidore v. Drummond, a case involving the constitutionality of the Oklahoma Charter School Board’s approval of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School for inclusion as a charter-school. First Liberty Institute represents Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, the State Board of Education, and the State Department of Education.
First Liberty Institute and the law firm Mayer Brown LLP sent a letter to the Wasatch County (UT) School District demanding first grade teacher Taryn Israelson be allowed to post a voluntary prayer support chain in the school’s faculty lounge. After she received approval from the Human Resources manager for the prayer chain, the principal at J.R. Smith Elementary told her it must be removed.
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