Parsing the Pronoun Wars
A state court resists an all-or-nothing approach. Controversy continues in courts across the nation over pronoun use for transgender students in public schools. It’s a controversy that state legislatures are increasingly engaged with as well. In April, for instance, Colorado adopted a law—which is certainly likely to be challenged—requiring teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns…
Read MoreAre Children Mere Creatures of the State?
A growing threat to parental rights. Illustration by Robert Carter Almost a century ago, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the rights of non-public schools to operate and of parents to have their children educated in them. At the heart of this…
Read MoreReckoning With the Reach of the Ministerial Exception
Does this legal doctrine give faith-based schools essential religious liberty protection? Or is it a tool for discrimination? Controversy continues over the extent to which officials in religiously affiliated schools can require their employees to comply with the teachings of their faiths, especially if employees have agreed to do so in the employment contracts they…
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