The University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center canceled a transgender man’s prescribed hysterectomy because the surgery would have violated the hospital’s religious prohibition on direct sterilizations of patients, according to a lawsuit the man filed Thursday alleging the facility violated ...

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In an unusual move, the U.S. Supreme Court has reserved 70 minutes for arguments on Feb. 27 as it considers whether a 40-foot cross erected as a war memorial in Bladensburg violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The ...

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and the Trump administration have found something they agree on: The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn a decision that a 40-foot cross erected as a war memorial in Bladensburg violates the constitutional separation of ...

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American Legion urges Supreme Court to overturn a decision that a war-memorial cross in Bladensburg violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether a 40-foot cross erected as a war memorial in Bladensburg violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The justices on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by defenders of the Bladensburg “Peace ...

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In a final plea that the Supreme Court hear their appeal, defenders of a 40-foot cross erected as a war memorial in Bladensburg told the justices the monolith represents noble patriotic sacrifice and is not an unconstitutional governmental endorsement of Christianity, as a lower court has ruled.

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh may have waited too long to challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court a federal appeals court ruling that a 40-foot cross erected more than 90 years ago as a war memorial on state-owned land in Bladensburg violates the constitutional separation of church and state, his re-election foe said Friday.

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Maryland contends the Constitution does not apply because the memorial cross essentially belongs to a private entity, The American Legion, though owned by a governmental agency.

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The president of Maryland’s Senate and seven colleagues are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn a lower court’s 'utterly unrecognizable' decision.

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A group that advocates for a sharp separation of church and state is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a lower court’s ruling that a 40-foot-cross erected as a war memorial on state-owned land in Bladensburg violates the ...

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