Four Roman Catholic nonprofits in New York, including two high schools, must allow employees access to contraception, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday, reversing a decision by a lower court that allowed the organizations to get around a requirement in the Affordable Care Act. A spokesman for the archdiocese said its lawyers were reviewing […]
The Council of Christian Colleges and Universities is losing a member school. Union University in Tennessee (Southern Baptist) has quit the CCCU, saying it cannot remain in a Christian group in which some member institutions will hire people in same-sex marriages. The issue of same-sex marriage has been elevated by some institutions to one on which […]
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill No. 1266 into law, allowing transgendered students to choose which school bathrooms and locker rooms to use and which sport teams to join based on their gender identity. The law is the nation’s first that specifically requires equal access to public school facilities and activities based on gender […]
