Jewish, Islamic groups back up Catholic school in lawsuit challenging new Michigan law

Sacred Heart Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has earned support from Jewish and Islamic advocacy groups in its lawsuit against the state for a religious exemption.

According to the lawsuit, without a religious exemption, the school would be forced to hire faculty and staff who lead lives that don’t line up with Catholic teachings.  Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

Since the case was appealed to the Sixth Circuit, Sacred Heart earned support from the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and the Religious Freedom Institute’s Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team. The groups say that the new state law would have "an especially deleterious effect" on minority faiths. 

"Though the facts underlying this appeal do not involve Islamic or Jewish expression or beliefs, the issue of religious entities’ right to hire coreligionists is of great concern to all faith groups and to minority faiths especially," the brief filed in support of Sacred Heart states.