Greg Baylor

Senior Counsel & Director of the Center for Religious Schools at Alliance Defending Freedom

[Greg Baylor @GregBaylor]

Tennessee governor signs bill protecting female students’ privacy, safety – ADF Media https://t.co/FGdmvxZO6t

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2/2 In the meantime, schools would face troubling new requirements, including ones that would require Christian schools to choose between maintaining their religious practices and accepting students with scholarships. Let's hope the legislature rejects his harmful proposals.

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1/2 NC governor Josh Stein aims to destroy the state's educational freedom program. His budget proposal (H.B. 1146/S.B. 915) would effectively phase out the Opportunity Scholarship program, through which thousands of families have escaped underperforming public schools.

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3/3 Kudos to Iowa for eliminating unconstitutional laws--without having to get sued!

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2/3 Excluding religious organizations from state benefit programs may have once been necessary as a matter of state or even federal constitutional law, but times have changed. SCOTUS has held multiple times (including in an ADF case--Trinity Lutheran v. Comer) that such discrimination violates the Free Exercise Clause.

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1/3 Iowa Senate File 2231 has passed both houses of the state legislature and now goes to the governor for signature. Among other things, SF 2231 eliminates government discrimination against religion in a variety of contexts.

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4/4 ADF will be watching to see if a similar bill is introduced in 2027. For now, give thanks!

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3/4 The bill would've imposed religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability nondiscrimination obligations on schools accepting scholarships from SGOs.

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2/4 Last year's federal budget reconciliation bill granted an income tax credit of up to $1700 for contributions to SGOs. CO Gov. Jared Polis opted his state into the program, angering some legislators in his own party, who introduced HB26-1292.

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1/4 Colorado House Bill 26-1292 is thankfully dead due to “insurmountable political headwinds.” Proposed in the wake of the new federal education tax credit, the bill would've punished religious K-12 schools for accepting funds from scholarship granting organizations (SGOs).

[Greg Baylor @GregBaylor]

A quick report on testimony before the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee on a bill designed to circumvent SCOTUS's decision in Chiles v. Salazar.

[Doug Richey @DougRichey]

BREAKING NEWS: The IA Legislature passed SF2231, protecting 1st Amendment rights of students, in public K-12 schools (SPEAKS Act), and prohibiting religious discrimination within government programs...Thank you Senate President Amy Sinclair, Senator Salmon, and Representative @samantha_fett for sponsoring this important legislation!

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[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

THREAD🧵: Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 against Colorado’s counseling ban.

Despite that, radical state legislators—seemingly desperate to keep kids on a one-way path toward “transition”—are trying to pass work-around bills.

Here’s why this “loophole” won’t work. ⬇️

[Tonya Shellnutt @tonyashellnutt]

Lost my voice today but not the mission.

H.4756 (Student Privacy) is DONE. House concurred. Finish line crossed.

Grateful for the two amazing men @TravisMooreLaw @tommypopeSC who helped carry it across and the many who fought for this moment.

A win for women. A win for truth. A win for courage.

[Greg Baylor @GregBaylor]

Another bad bill died when the MD legislature adjourned yesterday. HB 649 would've forbid faith-based schools from living out their religious beliefs about marriage, sexual morality, and the distinction between the sexes. ADF will be watching for its reintroduction in 2027.

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Good news! A MD bill responsive to the 8-1 SCOTUS decision in Chiles v. Salazar died when the legislature adjourned Monday. Among other things, it would've put counselors in jail for up to 5 years if they helped patients resolve the tension between their bodies and their minds.

[Greg Baylor @GregBaylor]

The evidence indicates that talk therapy can help; the evidence of harm is scant, particularly when it comes to adult patients. This bill would make it harder for patients to get the help they need. And it could channel them into often harmful "affirming" models of treatment.

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The MN legislature is considering a bill (SF 4707) that would forbid health insurance companies from covering talk therapy where the patient's objective is to harmonize their self-perception with their bodily reality or to reduce unwanted same-sex attraction or behavior.

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The OK Senate Revenue & Taxation Committee will hold a hearing today on HB 3704, which would opt the state into the federal education tax credit program. The bill would enable Oklahomans to take a credit of up to $1700 for contributions to scholarship granting organizations.