10th Circuit Won’t Rehear Challenge to Utah’s Roadside Crosses

By a 5-4 vote, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to re-hear the suit challenging roadside crosses commemorating fallen Utah State Troopers. In an earlier decision – one of the biggest church-state stories of the year – a panel of judges ruled...

New Jersey Judge Halts Government Prayer at Council Meetings

A judge in Ocean County, New Jersey, has issued an injunction barring Point Pleasant Beach officials from opening council meetings with a prayer. The town had previously agreed to halt their tradition of beginning with The Lord's Prayer, but the ACLU-NJ made the...

Setting the Record Straight

Commenting on her curious selection as one of what Newsweek is calling the "faces of the Christian Right", former BJC Counsel and chair of the White House's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Melissa Rogers correctly suggests...