Center Urges Court to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Christian College
Center attorneys have filed a motion in Franklin County, Kentucky Circuit Court asking the court to dismiss a lawsuit brough by strict separationist advocacy groups against the University of the Cumberlands and the Governor of Kentucky. Cumberlands is a theologically conservative four-year liberal arts institution associated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention. The lawsuit seeks to strike down a a ten million dollar start-up grant from the state to launch a pharmacy school in economically impoverished Southeastern Kentucky - even though the new school would address a critical health care need for the region (Kentucky has only one school of pharmacy) and Cumberlands is uniquely positioned to fill the need. The lawsuit argues that the funding must be set aside as contrary to the Kentucky Constitution because Cumberlands insists on a Christian code of conduct that excludes homosexual activity.
Representing the University along with Center Litigation Counsels Timothy J. Tracey and Isaac Fong are Guenther, Jordan, & Price of Nashville and Stites & Harbison of Frankfort. The Center's Motion for Summary Judgment can be viewed here.
Center Files Brief Supporting Pro-Life Pharmacists Threatened by Illinois "Morning-After Pill" Order
The Illinois Supreme Court will shortly hear a lawsuit by Illinois pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for so-called "morning after" pills, despite an order to do so by the Governor of Illinois and the state Pharmacy Board. Center attorneys filed a friend of the court brief for Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International, a nonprofit interdenominational fellowship whose members include Illinois pharmacists who face the real possibility of losing their livelihoods if the rule is upheld. The brief argues that the pharmacy rule runs afoul of the Illinois Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) because it substantially burdens the free exercise right possessed by religious pharmacists to decline to fill prescriptions that, in their view, cause the destruction of human life.
The CLS brief was authored by attorneys with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Columbia, South Carolina, and Center Litigation Counsel M. Casey Mattox. A copy of the final brief is available on our website at clsnet.org.
The Center for Law & Religious Freedom is the advocacy ministry of the Christian Legal Society, which is the professional association founded in 1961 of Christian attorneys, judges, law professors, law students, and friends throughout the United States.
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