President Obama has declared tomorrow, May 5 to be a National Day of Prayer, an annual proclamation required by a congressional statute. The 7th Circuit recently decided that no injury is caused by that law, so it can't be challenged in court. But that doesn't...
Public schools deal with numerous issues that have the potential to become church-state problems if handled improperly. In a lawsuit filed yesterday the ACLU of Tennessee, Sumner County schools are accused of running afoul of quite a few of them. A press release...
On the heels of the 7th Circuit ruling dismissing a church-state challenge to the National Day of Prayer statute, President Obama has issued the declaration for Thursday, May 5. On this National Day of Prayer, let us follow the example of President Lincoln and Dr....
Lawmakers in Pennsylvania are preparing to introduce a bill that allows public school teachers to wear religious garb in the classroom. Current law prohibits every Pennsylvania public school teacher from wearing any dress, mark, emblem or insignia that would indicate...
Sometimes I read the occasional story of teachers introducing religious belief into their public school classrooms, and I wonder…. How could they not know this to be completely inappropriate? Where have they been all this time, while the rest of the academic...
