A Church is a Church is a Church, Minister Decisionwise
So says a UNANIMOUS SCOTUS today.
Supreme Court Decision in Hosanna-Tabor a Major Win for Religious Freedom
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that resoundingly affirms the freedom of religious groups to choose their own ministers.
Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC involved a lawsuit brought by an employee against a church-operated school. The employee alleged that her employment was terminated in violation of a federal anti-discrimination law.
The question in this case was “whether the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment bar such an action when the employer is a religious group and the employee is one of the group’s ministers.”
In an opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court answered in the affirmative, stating that
“[b]oth Religion Clauses bar the government from interfering with the decision of a religious group to fire one of its ministers.”
The post I’ve linked to is an excellent read.
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January 11, 2012 3:52 pm
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Excellent. I sure wish the Episcopal Church had the balls to do this sort of thing. But they don’t.
I’d say that unanimity makes it something of a bitch slap to the Obama Justice Department. I mean, when even the four hard core liberals on the court tell them to get their grubby statist hands off the First Amendment you know they’ve gone way too far.
wow!