Wilmington, DE (March 8, 2012) —The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware (ACLU-DE) and the State of Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) have settled a case brought on behalf of death row inmate David Stevenson. Stevenson, a practicing Muslim since 1995, began petitioning for pastoral visits from a Sunni Salafi Muslim imam in May of [...]
News & Cases About Religious Freedom
High School Changes Choral Program To Respect Religious Freedom
A New Castle County high school changed its concert selections for 2011-2012 to bring them within constitutional requirements, after receiving correspondence from ACLU-DE and the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. The correspondence was sent on behalf of a high school music student who had been compelled to choose between singing a substantial [...]
Claymont Apartment House Admits Protestant Minister
At ACLU-DE’s request, management of a Claymont apartment house for the elderly changed its policy and began allowing the tenants to have a Protestant minister use a common room to conduct religious services one Sunday morning every month. ACLU-DE had been contacted by a representative of Protestant residents of the building, who were distressed because [...]
ACLU-DE Litigates Muslim Inmates’ Right to Halal Meals
ACLU-DE Cooperating Attorney Gary W. Aber recently began representing a Muslim inmate at Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution in a case seeking to compel the Department of Correction to provide Halal meat to Muslim inmates in the prison. A federal statute, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, prohibits prison authorities from imposing [...]
