Wheaton Student Hit With Fruit After Asking About LGBT Policy  —  After a student at a prominent evangelical college questioned his school’s stance against homosexuality in an all-school forum on Monday, another student allegedly threw an apple at him “as a warning against insulting the Spirit of grace.”

Wesleyan Univ Creates All-Inclusive Acronym  —  Wesleyan’s housing office has devised an acronym for ”a safe space for [LBTTQQFAGPBDSM] communities and for people of sexually or gender dissident communities.”  It is not clear whether the intent of this effort is serious, preventive, ironic, or other.

School Voucher Case in North Carolina  —  The North Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments for and against the use of public money at private and religious schools.  The justices asked about what constituted a “public purpose,” questioned interpretations of the state constitution and its framers’ intentions, and asked about guarantees for a quality education from […]

Tension in Quebec Over Religious Accommodation  —  Debate has been reignited in Quebec over religious accommodation after three mayors blocked Muslim speakers and projects.  Muslims say the new actions taken by the mayors are muzzling their ability to practise their religion, while others argue the moves were made for the greater public good.

Judge Dismisses Pledge of Allegiance Suit  —  A N.J., lawsuit alleging that the words under God in the Pledge of Allegiance violated the rights of an atheist schoolchild and sought to have them stricken has been dismissed.  In his decision, Superior Court Judge David Bauman said recitation of the pledge was a secular, rather than […]

Students Respond to SF Archbishop’s LGBT Rulings  —  Catholic high school students in San Francisco are speaking out about Salvatore Cordileone, who oversees all Catholic schools in the city, who said he will add a new document to the faculty handbook that focuses particularly on LGBT teachers.

InterVarsity Case Invokes Hosanna-Tabor Ministerial Exception  —  The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, maintaining a broad constitutional right for ministries to control their hiring and firing practices. This is one of the first major rulings under the precedent set by the Supreme Court’s 2012 determination in Hosanna Tabor. 

Canadian Supreme Court Allows Assisted Suicide  —  The court has ruled that adults in grievous, unending pain have a right to end their life with a doctor’s help. “We do not agree that the existential formulation of the right to life requires an absolute prohibition on assistance in dying,” and rejected the concept of “a […]

Breakaway Episcopal Diocese Wins Court Case to Secede  —  A South Carolina Circuit Court judge ruled that the Diocese of South Carolina legally seceded from the Episcopal Church national body, and can retain control of $500 million in church property and assets.

Update on Trinity Western University Law School  —  A provincial Supreme Court justice has ruled that a Nova Scotian law society cannot deny future graduates of Canada’s first Christian law school the right to practice because of the college’s position on sexuality.