Walter Olsen has a good run-down of important laws and court decisions pertaining to religious liberty.
Yet I have a question about how all this works out. Olsen writes, “Religious institutions, including church schools, enjoy an additional cordon of constitutional protection under a series of cases that include the Supreme Court’s unanimous 2012 Hosanna‐Tabor ruling on the employment of religious teachers, in which liberal and conservative Justices locked arms to defend church autonomy.” As I asked, “Does this mean a religious school may discriminate on the basis of religion (to hire all Protestants, say), but a secular school may NOT so discriminate (to hire only atheists)?”
Olsen also points to David French’s article on religious liberty.
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