On the latest episode of Minnesota Law Report, Upper Midwest Law Center senior counsel James Dickey and True North Legal president Renee Carlson discussed the current attacks on religious liberty in the state of Minnesota.
They dug into the details of one religious liberty case making its way through the courts — a man who is no longer allowed to teach a voluntary course at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility after the Department of Corrections said the course conflicts with its DEI values. The program was called “Quest for Authentic Manhood” and had been taught for 10 years to more than 1,000 men.
“It is unbelievable to me that after the Supreme Court decided … you cannot cancel arrangements between public partners and private partners purely based on religious beliefs, that’s exactly what happened here,” Dickey said.
Dickey and Carlson also discussed a proposed “Equal Rights Amendment” to the state constitution, which Carlson said would “exclude and erase women and all of their protections,” as well as protections for “people of faith.”
“How can we have inclusion when the whole premise of inclusion is actually exclusion of specific people, and particularly people of faith?” Carlson asked.
Lastly, they discussed Carlson’s work in helping a group of Somali-American mothers opt their elementary-aged children out of LGBT curriculum in St. Louis Park.
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Rose Williams is an assistant editor for Alpha News.
