Through the years, the Christian Law Associationhas been blessed to win an unbelievable number of cases, defending the rights of churches and individual Christians to practice the religious liberty promised in the United States Constitution. But we can never make the false assumption that once something is settled, it is settled forever.
Courts tend to follow precedent.
If the courts allow one church in a state to have a
Christian school, it is likely that they will allow all churches in the same state to have Christian schools because courts tend to follow precedent.
Attorneys tend to show distinctions.
In order to get a ruling that goes against established precedent, attorneys try to show how the present case is somehow different from cases in the past. They may argue something as simple as, “The cases in the past dealt with larger churches that were more likely to have qualified teachers, but the present case deals with a smaller church that is less likely to have such resources.”
The United States Supreme Court sometimes changes its mind.
In the matter of abortion, the Supreme Court for many years ruled that every state must allow abortions. In recent years, the Court ruled that it is acceptable for abortion rights to vary from state to state. Even long-established precedents can be overturned with a single case.
A recent Supreme Court decision has created some confusion.
In most cases involving public schools, if one group of students is allowed to express their thoughts, then all groups are. But when a school on the East Coast allowed some students to wear shirts that said, “He, She, They. It’s All OK” but disallowed one student to wear a shirt that said, “There are only two genders,” the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, thereby allowing the school to exercise viewpoint discrimination.
Please continue to pray for the Christian Law Association.
Because of the nature of the law in the United States, our work defending Christian liberty is never done. We are determined to continue winning cases in the future, just as we have in the past; but we know we cannot do so without God’s help. We humbly ask all our supporters to keep us in their prayers.