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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.

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This really is an interesting case. The decision is quite right that ends the church control over religion teachers' married lives. Thanks for the information.