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Appeals Court Allows Christian School to Participate in Vt. Sports Competitions
A federal court ruled the expulsion violated the school's religious rights, allowing Mid Vermont Christian School to rejoin state sports after a 2023 ban for forfeiting a game.
- On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that Mid Vermont Christian School should be permitted to participate in state-sponsored athletic competitions following its 2023 ban.
- The ban occurred after the school chose to forfeit a girls’ basketball playoff to not compete against a team that included a transgender athlete, leading to a lawsuit alleging infringement of their religious free exercise rights.
- The court found the Vermont Principals' Association's expulsion not neutral and hostile toward the school's religious beliefs, emphasizing the school's sincere religious objection.
- Legal analyst Jared Carter called the decision part of a broader expansion of First Amendment protections, while advocates on both sides issued contrasting statements on fairness and inclusion.
- The ruling reinstates the school’s participation in athletics but leaves the underlying lawsuit unresolved and highlights ongoing tensions over religion and transgender policies in Vermont schools.
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Vermont Christian school readmitted to sports association after refusing to compete against 'trans' athlete
After a Vermont Christian school was expelled from Vermont’s athletic association for forfeiting a girls’ basketball game because the opposing team had a male player, an… The post Vermont Christian school readmitted to sports association after refusing to compete against ‘trans’ athlete appeared first on CatholicVote org.
'Displayed hostility': Christian school banned for religious beliefs wins legal victory * WorldNetDaily * by Mary Mobley, The Daily Signal
A federal appeals court ordered Vermont to let a Christian school compete in state-sponsored sports events—even though the school doesn’t support the state’s view of “transgender” ideology. That decision allows the school to finally participate in athletics again after suffering a yearslong ban for forfeiting a game that would have forced girls on its team to compete against a male playing on the opposing girls’ team. In an opinion released Tues…
Excluding Religious School That "Forfeited a Girls' Playoff Basketball Game to Avoid Playing a Team with a Transgender Athlete" Violated Free Exercise Clause
From today's decision by Second Circuit Judge Michael Park, joined by Judges Richard Wesley and Richard Sullivan, in Mid Vermont Christian School v. Saunders: Mid Vermont Christian School forfeited a girls' playoff basketball game to avoid playing a team with a transgender athlete. The school believes that forcing girls to compete against biological males would affirm that those males are females, in violation of its religious beliefs. In respon…
Mid-Vermont Christian triumphs over State of Vermont, sports teams must be reinstated - Vermont Daily Chronicle
In 2023, the Vermont Principals’ Association kicked Mid Vermont out of its athletic association because the school forfeited a girls’ basketball game against a girls’ team with a male athlete because playing the game would have violated the school’s religious convictions. In a victory for religious schools, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled Tuesday, September 9 that Vermont must allow a Christian school back into the state’s at…
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