The state's education board said that it "is reinstating its directive to county boards of education not to accept religious exemptions to compulsory vaccination laws"
The plaintiffs are five parents and five taxpayers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, the Education Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Public Funds Public Schools campaign and the Southern Education Foundation, according to a release from the ACLU. The Robbins Geller Rudman and Dowd LLP law firm is representing the plaintiffs pro bono.
Kirk was assassinated last week while speaking at an event in Utah.
“This Department of Justice will not stand by while recipients of federal funds engage in illegal discrimination,” said AG Bondi. “This guidance will ensure we are serving the American people and not ideological agendas.”
“OPM is committed to creating a federal workforce that reflects the highest standards of merit and service,” OPM acting director Charles Ezell said.
Under the legislation, priests and pastors would be forced to report child abuse if they have a reasonable suspicion “to believe that the abuse is ongoing, will continue or may be a threat to other minors.”
Senate Bill 5375 makes members of the clergy – including ministers, priests, rabbis and others – mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.
Second Department of Education rulemaking on gender identity draws 130,000 comments, with some citing threat to free speech, religion. Feds drastically understate compliance costs, critics say.
The vice president and second lady are raising three children in an interfaith household, but the family attends Mass on Sundays.