In the last issue of Report From the Capital, BJC Director Brent Walker tackled the Top 5 Myths About Church-State Separation. If you missed it, here they are: Myth #1: We don't have separation of church and state in America because those words are...
A panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case of high school history teacher James Corbett, who was found to have violated a student's religious freedom rights by offering derogatory opinions about religion in class. At issue in the...
Apropos of today's news from Egypt, and in a spirit of hope for a free and peaceful future, Anne Alexander of BBCNews reports on the beautiful sight of Egyptian Christians and Muslims joining hands, literally and figuratively, in protest against oppression. During...
Earlier this week, the Kentucky State Senate passed a bill requiring its Department of Education to create the curriculum for electives in the study of the Bible. The stated purpose of courses created by SB 56 is to: Teach students knowledge of biblical content,...
A federal judge in Colorado has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the Air Force Academy prayer luncheon scheduled for next week. The lawsuit argued the luncheon, scheduled for Thursday, would violate the constitutional separation of church and state because it...
