Thursday, April 21, 2011
An interesting case about religion, state-run schools, and teachers
"Spain ends church control over religion teachers' married lives," The Guardian proclaims. (This is probably not quite the way I'd frame the issue, but put that aside.) The key point in the story, as I see it, is that these religion teachers were working in and for the state's schools. Maybe the Guardian would write pretty much the same story, celebrating the Church's loss of "control", if the teacher had been working in a Catholic school, I don't know. But, for purposes of religious freedom generally -- and the "ministerial exception" more specifically -- this distinction seems to matter a lot.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/04/an-interesting-case-about-religion-state-run-schools-and-teachers.html