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A reckoning for woke workplace training

Jan 16, 2025 | wng.org | Steve West

On Wednesday morning, Brooke Henderson, a Springfield, Mo., special education teacher, waited in a St. Louis hotel for the full 11 judges of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear her case. In a rare move last year, the court threw out its own panel’s unanimous ruling in the lawsuit that Henderson and her colleague Jennifer Lumley filed over three years ago contesting controversial “anti-racist” training mandated by their school district.
Supreme Court considers TikTok’s fate

Jan 10, 2025 | wng.org | Steve West

A chilly, wintry wind blew outside the Supreme Court Friday morning, as TikTok attorney Noel Francisco, who served as U.S. solicitor general during the first Trump administration, faced stiff questioning from justices inside the court. TikTok sued the Biden administration over a law that a bipartisan majority in Congress passed last year. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law in April.
On a Sunday Afternoon

Nov 25, 2024 | session-magazine.com | Steve West

"There are enough waves out here for you too, brah!" My friend Dean welcomes me to the lineup where he is already out and surfing solo. He surfs a stand up board and is as South Shore Hawaiian as spam musubi. He's perpetually cold here on the mainland and wears more rubber than the rest of us. Dean likes to park it way out the back and wait for set waves, island style. The waves are small and inconsistent. The sun is out and the sky a bright blue. There is no wind.
Jilted church sues University of Maine over rescinded bid

Nov 22, 2024 | wng.org | Steve West

Churches sometimes field complaints from their communities about additional traffic and noise from worship and other activities. But in one small Maine town, a significant number of residents say a church, at least one that supports Biblical teaching on marriage and sexuality, has no place in the community.
Religious liberty and hiring rights

Nov 12, 2024 | wng.org | Steve West |Mary Reichard

MARY REICHARD, HOST:It’s Tuesday the 12th of November. You’re listening to WORLD Radio and we’re glad to have you along today. Good morning! I’m Mary Reichard. NICK EICHER, HOST:And I’m Nick Eicher. First up on The World and Everything in It: Good news for Christian nonprofits. This month, a federal district court in Washington state ruled in favor of a Christian ministry to the homeless. Yakima Union Gospel Mission has operated there for almost 90 years.
Judge blocks state from enforcing hiring law against religious…

Nov 7, 2024 | wng.org | Steve West

As many as 14 job positions lay vacant when Scott Thielen came on board as CEO of Washington state’s Yakima Union Gospel Mission in July. Since 2021, the ministry—which provides a homeless shelter, addiction-recovery program, outreach efforts, meal services, and medical and dental clinics—has been unable to fill open positions because of threats by state regulators to enforce a state anti-discrimination law.
Fire chief’s religious discrimination suit reaches Supreme Court

Oct 22, 2024 | wng.org | Steve West

Stockton, Calif., fire chief Ronald Hittle didn’t think he was doing anything wrong when he attended a leadership conference hosted by a local church in August 2010. The veteran firefighter’s supervisor had told him to obtain leadership training.
Supreme Court considers attorneys’ fees awards in civil rights cases

Oct 10, 2024 | wng.org | Steve West

During its second day of arguments in its new session, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought by a group of Virginia drivers asking for the state to pay attorneys’ fees in an earlier case. The hearing on Tuesday may have seemed like a technical argument about civil rights lawsuits. But attorneys for both sides say the stakes are high for those seeking to vindicate civil rights—including litigants claiming religious discrimination—and for governmental entities facing lawsuits.
Nonprofits in Michigan score victory for religious liberty

Sep 24, 2024 | wng.org | Steve West

On Friday, a federal appeals court panel in Cincinnati greenlighted an effort by a religious medical nonprofit and a Roman Catholic parish and school to challenge a Michigan public accommodation law interpreted by courts to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. Michigan’s Christian Healthcare Centers filed a complaint against the law in August 2022. Grand Rapids–based Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish and St. Joseph Parish later filed separate cases against the law.
Western land lock

Sep 12, 2024 | wng.org | Steve West |Christina Grube

Around two-thirds of the land within the state of Utah is under federal ownership and control. That’s far too much, says Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. In an Aug. 20 press conference, the Republican governor announced the state had filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for unconstitutionally holding and not disposing of unappropriated federal lands. “For many years—decades even—the question of how to best manage Utah’s lands has been at the forefront of our state’s critical issues,” Cox said.