At the Washington Post's On Faith site, the current debate among religious leaders and civil liberty advocates is about the prominence of religious ceremony on display at formal occasions like the impending royal wedding, despite the growing secularism of English...
Writing at the New York Review of Books blog, noted constitutional law professor and scholar Ronald Dworkin takes on the Roberts Court for its recent ruling in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn and other recent decisions that have undermined the...
Writing for the Washington Post, David Sehat presents his version of "Five Myths About Church and State in America." I especially like #5, the myth that "liberals are anti-religious." Debunking the notion that Supreme Court decisions enforcing the...
The Washington Post's Valerie Strauss offers a helpful rundown of legislation in states across the country designed to undermine the teaching of evolution in the science classroom. Most remarkable is the story of 17-year-old Zack Kopplin, a high school senior in...
The ACLU's suit against Minnesota's controversial TiZA charter school can go forward, a judge ruled yesterday. The publicly funded academy, which focuses on Arabic language and culture, denies accusations that it improperly promotes Islam, and moved to have...