Supreme Court upholds religious schools’ right to hire, fire religious teachers
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Government cannot interfere with a religious school’s judgement on who should or should not teach religion classes, according to a narrow 7-2 ruling handed down this morning by the United States Supreme Court. Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James Catholic School v. Biel concern two California Catholic elementary schools’ right to select educators who reflect their understanding of their faith, free from government interference. The religious liberty legal firm Becket Law is representing the schools, who are facing a lawsuit from two teachers fired for unsatisfactory performance, A