U.S. Supreme Court,
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Jun. 30, 2017
Tension in free exercise rulings
States cannot deny direct funds to churches because they are churches -- at least when it comes to building playgrounds. This is the clarity the U.S. Supreme Court added to its free exercise jurisprudence this week.
Gunnar B. Gundersen IV
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Pepperdine Univ Law School
Gunnar's appellate practice includes the Supreme Court. In addition, he researches and lectures on religious freedom as an Affiliated Scholar of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the America Founding in Washington, D.C. For more information please go to www.gundersen-law.com
States cannot deny direct funds to churches because they are churches -- at least when it comes to building playgrounds. This is the clarity the U.S. Supreme Court added to its free exercise jurisprudence in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, 2017 DJDAR 6222 (June 26, 2017), on Monday.
In that case, Trinity Lutheran Church applied for funds from the state of Missouri to change its preschoo...
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