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- Over 40 Virginia faith leaders sign open letter citing serious concerns about ‘Virginia Values’ Act
- Policy threatens religious school operators with fines, jail time but allows public schools of same size to reopen
- State officials provide tuition vouchers for students who select public or private secular schools but not private religious schools
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in A.M. v. French opposing Vermont’s discrimination against students based on the religious status of the high schools they attend: “As the United States argues in its brief filed Wednesday, no state can discriminate against students based on which kind of school they attend. It makes no sense for Vermont to say it will pay ...
- Appeals court cites US Supreme Court’s decision in Montana case
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday affirming the freedom of religious schools to determine who teaches their faith: “As the Supreme Court has made clear in the past and has now made clear again, the First Amendment bars the government from interfering with a religious group’s employment decisions regarding its ministers. The court’s decision today clears up disagreements in the lower courts about the right way to define ‘minister,’ ...
- ADF files brief on behalf of Christian schools, associations asking Supreme Court to affirm their freedom from undue govt interference