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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy, 11/05
« Last post by SVPete on January 29, 2026, 11:25:20 AM »Moody Bible Institute sues Chicago Ed Board for alleged religious discrimination
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/moody-bible-institute-sues-chicago-ed-board-religious-discrimination-refusing
Moody Bible Institute has been in Chicago for nearly 140 years. it's not an obscure new fly-by-night. Its operations and hiring practices have been discoverable to anyone who cared, but bigots in the Chicago Board of Education simply want to sabotage the career prospects of Christian students working to become teachers.
An update on the situation, Chicago's bigotry continues:
Chicago schools refuse to hire Christian college student teachers despite lawsuit
https://www.thecollegefix.com/chicago-public-schools-still-isnt-letting-student-teachers-from-christian-college-in-lawyer/
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A Christian college, The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, continues to be excluded from the Chicago Public Schools student teacher program after suing for religious discrimination, the college’s lawyer told The College Fix.
In an exclusive interview, senior counsel on the case Jeremiah Galus said that as of Jan. 7, Chicago Public Schools still wasn’t allowing Moody’s student teachers to work in its schools.
“Excluding Moody from a public student-teaching program solely because of its religious beliefs violates the First Amendment and serves no one — especially students and families who need more well-prepared teachers,” Galus, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Fix recently.
However, he also said that Moody’s elementary education program, which is at the center of the lawsuit, is still active.
Attorneys with ADF filed the federal lawsuit in November on behalf of Moody, alleging that the Chicago Board of Education’s student-teacher program is “unlawful” because it would force the Christian college to “surrender [its] legal rights to make [its] own employment decisions based on religious faith.”
“Religious nonprofits have the right to be religious, and Moody Bible Institute has the right to hire faculty and staff who share and live out their faith,” Galus told The Fix.
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