The Knoxville, Tennessee school board is on the verge of banning a high school biology textbook for being offensive to the creationist viewpoint. Kurt Zimmermann, a Farragut High School parent, filed a complaint in December about the textbook's characterization of...
Like many states, Florida has a constitutional provision barring the government from sending tax money "directly or indirectly" to any "church, sect or religious denomination." If some lawmakers have their way, though, that church-state protection...
David Masci previews the upcoming CLS v. Martinez Supreme Court hearing for the Pew Research Center. He notes that if the court rules in favor of the school (Hastings) in its policy refusing official recognition to groups that discriminate, the "decision is...
Reliably maddening pundit Dennis Prager outdoes himself today in a National Review column picked up by NPR. Remember last week's story of Good Friday and Davenport, Iowa? The town's Civil Rights Commission, trying to advocate on behalf of the many...
Washington D.C.'s controversial "C Street House" – which lost part of its tax-exempt status last year – is the subject of a new round of complaints filed by a group of clergy and a government watchdog in the last week. The Citizens for...
