INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE

The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (“ERLC”) is the moral concerns and public policy entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination with over 44,000 churches and 16 million members.  The National Association of Evangelicals (“NAE”) is the largest network of evangelical churches, denominations, colleges, and independent ministries in the United States, serving 50 member denominations and associations and representing more than 45,000 local churches and 30 million Christians. The Convocation of Anglicans in North America (“CANA”) was established in 2005 to provide a new home for faithful Anglicans displaced by the widening divisions in Anglicanism in North America.  It is affiliated with the Anglican Church in North America and with the Anglican Church of Nigeria, the largest and most vibrant Province in the worldwide Anglican Communion.  The ERLC, NAE, and CANA each believe that religious freedom is a gift from God, and work to address social and moral concerns at the local, state, and national levels, with particular attention to the impact on American families and their faith. Amici believe that parents should have the right and opportunity to provide their children with an education based on a distinctly Christian worldview.

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