The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with a church school in a lawsuit filed by a former teacher fired by the church. The lawsuit claimed the teacher had been fired after taking a leave of absence to deal with an illness. The Supreme Court, however, ruled that the First Amendment “guarantees” free exercise of religion, and that decisions about religious employees should be kept out of government hand. Opponents of the court’s ruling say the church was using religion to thinly hide acts of discrimination protected in the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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