Legislators in Arkansas and Tennessee want to allow taxpayer-funded foster-care agencies to refuse to work with people they deem to be the "wrong" religion – the same discrimination faced by our client Aimee Maddonna, a South Carolina woman who was turned away from helping children in foster care only because she's Catholic.

Private school vouchers were at the center of the debate in states across the country this week, including Florida, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee.

It's ironic that some in the Religious Right complain about Gay-Straight Alliances in public schools because it was conservative Christian groups lobbying for religious clubs in public schools that led to the Equal Access Act, which gives students the right to form clubs - religious and secular alike.