Lawsuit against Christian schools dismissed: A reflection on religious freedom in America
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
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In 2021, LGBTQ students with the so-called Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP) filed a class-action lawsuit that would force religious schools to choose between abandoning their biblical beliefs or losing students who would be denied federal financial assistance. In their view, a school that upholds biblical sexuality illegally discriminates against those who disagree. But recently a federal judge in Oregon dismissed REAP’s lawsuit. What do recent news stories about religious freedom tell us about the state of religious freedom in America today? And how should Christians respond?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:57.8 | Today is Wednesday, January the 18th, 2023. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum CEO and co-founder |
| 1:07.4 | Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:09.8 | In 2021, LGBTQ students filed a class action lawsuit that would force religious schools to |
| 1:16.4 | choose between abandoning their biblical beliefs or losing students who would be denied |
| 1:22.0 | federal financial assistance. |
| 1:24.1 | The so-called Religious Exemption Accountability Project, known by the acronym REAP, claims to represent |
| 1:31.2 | LGBT students at more than 200 taxpayer-funded religious schools that actively discriminate on the |
| 1:38.3 | basis of sexual orientation and gender identity expression. In their view, a school that upholds biblical sexuality illegally discriminates against those |
| 1:48.3 | who disagree. |
| 1:49.3 | Since the schools in question receive federal funds, REAP claims that such funding should |
| 1:55.0 | stop. |
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