Objective coverage of church-state and religious liberty developments, with extensive links to primary sources.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Supreme Court Asked To Decide On Holding Of Public School Commencements In Churches
The Becket Fund announced yesterday that it has filed a petition for certiorari (full text) with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of the 7th Circuit's decision in Doe 3 v. Elmbrook School District. In the case, the 7th Circuit in a 7-3 en banc decision held that two Wisconsin high schools violated the Establishment Clause when they regularly held their graduation ceremonies in the sanctuary of a non-denominational evangelical Christian church. (See prior posting.) The Brookfield Patch reports on the filing of the cert. petition.