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Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reaffirmed that the United States Constitution prohibits states and the federal government from requiring any kind of religious test for public office, in this case as a notary public.
Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 515 U.S. 819 (1995), was an opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding whether a state university might, consistent with the First Amendment, withhold from student religious publications funding provided to similar secular student publications.
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was drafted in 1777 by Thomas Jefferson in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and introduced into the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond in 1779. [1] On January 16, 1786, the Assembly enacted the statute into the state's law.
Colorado was a Supreme Court case that had been expected to play a significant role in distinction between anti-discrimination laws and freedom of religion. A Colorado bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop, had refused to bake a cake for a gay couple's marriage, as the owner was a devout Christian and the message he was asked to bake was against his faith.
Religious practice may also conflict with secular law, creating debates on religious freedom. For instance, even though polygamy is permitted in Islam, it is prohibited in secular law in many countries. This raises the question of whether prohibiting the practice infringes on the beliefs of certain Muslims.
Hood said past case law shows that the church should be kept as a defendant because Lee was a church volunteer when he abused the children. “This was a sexual abuse mismanagement at the hands of ...
The articles 8 ("Equality before the law") and 15 ("Freedom of religion and conscience") of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation guarantees individual freedom of beliefs. [90] It notably states that "No person may be forced to join or belong to a religious community, to participate in a religious act or to follow religious ...
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