American Decades

Important Events in Religion, 1990–1999

The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first translation into English that attempts to be gender neutral, is published.
On April 17, in Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, the Supreme Court rules that two members of the Native American Church are not entitled to unemployment benefits. They had been fired from their jobs as drug and alcohol counselors after using peyote in a religious service.
On June 4, in Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens, the Supreme Court rules that public schools must give student-led religious groups the same access to school facilities allowed to other student groups.
From June 12 to June 14, after nearly two decades of coordinated effort, fundamentalists take undisputed control of the Southern Baptist Convention.
On June 25, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform...

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