High School Promptly and Appropriately Addresses Club Sponsor’s Logo
Jesus is allowed at Lewisville Independent School District. For a while at the beginning of this school year, it didn’t seem that way. The Texas high school censored the word “Jesus” out of the business logo of a student club sponsor. “The government often thinks it can, or should, censor […]
First Liberty Files Supreme Court Brief Defending Religious Freedom, Free Speech of Faith-Based Schools
The future of religious schools in America could hinge on the outcome of one case currently before the United States Supreme Court — Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. First Liberty filed a brief on Tuesday, September 27 on behalf of religious educational institutions and educators, asking the Court to […]
Jewish Ceremony Banned—Until First Liberty Steps In
A few days before the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah, observed this year on October 2, an extremist special interest group filed a federal lawsuit to stop a small Jewish synagogue in California from partaking in a traditional ceremony to be carried out shortly thereafter. The kaporos (“atonement”) ceremony […]
Appeal: Coach Kennedy Fighting to Get Back in the Game
Coach Joe Kennedy is ready to leave the bleachers and get back on the sidelines as football coach. First Liberty is pulling out all the legal stops to make that happen sooner rather than later. First Liberty filed an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit […]
First Liberty Secures Victory for Commissioners to Open Court Sessions in Prayer
On September 19, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the Rowan County commissioners can continue to open their court sessions in prayer. In a 2-1 ruling, the court held that the district court erred in ruling the practice unconstitutional and reversed and remanded the […]
First Liberty: Government Can’t Tell You to Stop Praying in Your Own Home
First Liberty is defending one woman’s right to pray in her own home. That right — guaranteed by the First Amendment’s Free Exercise clause — was violated one night when police officers entered the home of Mary Anne Sause of Louisburg, Kansas and told her to “stop praying” without any […]
