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7th Circuit: Plaintiff Must Allege More Than Conclusory Statements of #Religious #Belief to Get #ReligiousExemption

In Troogstad v. City of #Chicago, (7th Cir., Dec. 9, 2025), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of #freeexercise claims by a #ChicagoFireDepartment employee who was denied a religious #exemption from the city's #Covid19 #vaccinemandate.

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/7th-circuit-plaintiff-must-allege-more.html

7th Circuit: #Chicago's Reporting Requirement for #Employees During #CovidPandemic Were #Constitutional

In Kondilis v. City of Chicago, (7th Cir., Dec. 2, 2025), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims by City of Chicago employees who had been granted #religiousexemptions from the #Covidvaccinemandate that, nevertheless, the reporting requirements imposed on them violated their #freeexercise and #equalprotection rights.

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/7th-circuit-chicagos-reporting.html

In Clayman v. Bessant, (SD FL, Nov. 24, 2025), a #Florida federal district court rejected plaintiff's #RFRA, #FreeExercise, #EstablishmentClause, Takings Clause and other challenges to the phrase #InGodWeTrust on #US. #coins and #currency.

#Jewish #religious #Hasmonean #Maccabean #religioustraditions #God #secular #SOCAS #separationofchurchandstate

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-god-we-trust-on-currency-does-not.html

#11thCircuit: #Government Can Insist on #Secular Presenters in Intervention Program for #DomesticAbusers

In #NussbaumervSecretary, #Florida Department of #Children and #Families, (11th Cir., Sept. 4, 2025), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected #freespeech and #freeexercise challenges to Florida's requirements for becoming certified as a provider in the state's batterers' intervention program.

https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/09/11th-circuit-government-can-insist-on.html

#Homophobic #Maryland #Parents ask #SupremeCourt to hear case on #schools making #kids read #LGBTQ #affirming #books.

They claim their #freeexercise of #religion is violated without an option to opt out of learning #LGBTQ #relationships are equally #valid

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Maryland #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/13/parents-ask-supreme-court-to-hear-case-of-schools-/

#MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

#constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism