The Supreme Court announced it will hear an appeal by a school that pits religious freedom against anti-discrimination law: Does the 1st Amendment’s protection for the “free exercise of religion” shield religious schools from being sued by their teachers?
Becket’s lawyers argue that the government and the courts should have no role in deciding who will be a teacher at a religious school.“Parents trust Catholic schools to assist them in one of their most important duties: forming the faith of their children,” Montserrat Alvarado, the group’s executive director, said Wednesday.
The legal disputes are not limited to Catholic schools. The court has a third and related appeal from Los Angeles in a similar case involvingThe California cases call upon the high court to clarify abrought by a “called” teacher at a Lutheran church school. If teachers at a church-related school are required to teach religion as part of their job, they function like ministers of the faith and may not sue the church or the school if they are dismissed, he said.
“If the ‘separation of church and state’ — a principle that exists to protect religion from government intrusion and interference — means anything, it means that religious communities, not government courts or litigants, have the authority in the Supreme Court’s words to ‘choose those who will guide it on its way,’” he said.The case comes at a time when the conservative majority on the high court has been steadily expanding the scope of religious liberty.
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