The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether charities run by religious groups have to pay unemployment taxes that cover their employees. Most, but not all, states generally exempt religious groups from having to pay into the state's unemployment tax system. (Totenberg, NPR)
Read MoreFive years after the business was spurned from the UK following an LGBT backlash, bosses of the evangelical chicken chain are trying again. However, this time they have come prepared, flanked by an army of PR experts prepared to defend the company’s historical ties to Christian groups opposed to gay marriage. (Barr, The Telegraph)
Read More“We will bring God back to schools and prayer back in schools in Oklahoma,” Ryan Walters told an audience at a Family Research Council meeting in September last year. (Gayle, The New York Times)
Read More[A] growing number of public allegations from around the world have prompted a broad investigation by the FBI and placed an uncomfortable spotlight on the long-quiet Christian sect. Survivors say the group’s leaders protected child-abusing ministers by pressuring victims to forgive, ignoring legal reporting requirements and by transferring abusers to new locations to live with unsuspecting families. (Boone, AP News)
Read MoreThe ban on giving puberty blockers to under-18s questioning their gender identify is to be made permanent, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced. Streeting told MPs he was making the temporary ban introduced in May indefinite across the UK, following a consultation and advice from the Commission on Human Medicines - calling the way the drugs had been used a "scandal". (Triggle, BBC)
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