It's been an interesting couple of years for American Muslims. Mosque construction has been threatened – both in courts and by vandals; growing unfounded fears of Islam's Sharia Law have become an avenue for continued discrimination, misunderstanding,...
The Winston Salem-Journal reports that 4 of 7 county commissioners are already on record supporting an appeal of last week's 4th Circuit decision ruling their invocation policy unconstitutional. One consideration for the group? The cost: The county has the option...
In a lawsuit filed earlier today, representatives of Alabama's Roman Catholic, Episcopalian and Methodist churches claimed the state's new immigration law unlawfully restricts their ability to exercise their faith. The Birmingham News' Kent Faulk offers...
The lawsuit challenging Texas Governor Rick Perry's Christian prayer event has been dismissed by a federal judge who found the plaintiffs lacked sufficient harm to claim legal standing. AP reports: "I wonder if we had a Muslim governor what would happen if...
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a trial judge's ruling, and agreed with the position of the Baptist Joint Committee (quoting the BJC's brief in spots), that the invocation policy of North Carolina's Forsyth County Commission violates the...
