Judge weighs Minnesota law that bans religious tests for colleges participating in state program
1 week, 6 days ago

Judge weighs Minnesota law that bans religious tests for colleges participating in state program

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge is considering whether to overturn a Minnesota law that bans religious tests for colleges that participate in a state program that allows high school students to take college courses for credit. The law targets the state’s only two conservative Christian colleges that require students to sign statements of faith — Crown College in St. Bonifacius and the University of Northwestern in Roseville. The longstanding Minnesota Postsecondary Enrollment Options program lets high school students earn free credits at state expense at public or private colleges of their choice, although the courses must be nonsectarian. And they said the schools have offered no evidence that admitting non-Christian or LGBTQ+ high school students to the program would harm the colleges’ religious beliefs or practices.

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LGBTQ students wrestle with tensions at Christian colleges
2 years ago

LGBTQ students wrestle with tensions at Christian colleges

Associated Press  

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — As monks chanted evening prayers in the dimly lit Saint John’s University church, members of the student LGBTQ organization, QPLUS, were meeting in a dedicated, Pride flag-lined lounge at the institution’s sister Benedictine college, a few miles away across Minnesota farmland. “Today’s college freshman was born in 2004, the year Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage,” Hawthorne said, suggesting …

Maine ban on religious tuition funding goes to Supreme Court
3 years, 10 months ago

Maine ban on religious tuition funding goes to Supreme Court

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Maine — Three families demanding that the state pay tuition for religious schools are taking their appeal to a U.S. Supreme Court that looks much different than when the lawsuit was filed more than two years ago. The conservative shift of the U.S. Supreme Court and a ruling in a Montana case make attorneys for the Maine families more …

Maine ban on tuition payments to religious schools is upheld
4 years, 1 month ago

Maine ban on tuition payments to religious schools is upheld

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PORTLAND, Maine — The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from a high school tuition voucher program, upholding the law after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Montana case seemed to open the door to more public funding for parochial schools. The Maine Department of Education currently allows families who reside in towns …

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