AP reports on yesterday's 2nd Circuit ruling that some religious displays in a church-run Post Office violated the Constitution. Ed Brayton passes along the first-person account of an Army Captain who experienced persistent discrimination in the military for not...
The Full Gospel Interdenominational Church in Manchester, CT may enter a partnership with the federal government to run its community's Post Office, but must distinguish its religious functions from government functions, according to a 2nd Circuit decision...
Religion Dispatches posts an interview with law professor Winnifred Fallers Sullivan about his new book Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution , a recounting of the Americans United v. Prison Fellowship Ministries trial in which Sullivan served as an...
Two prominent church-state advocates have written to the Illinois Department of Commerce warning that funding earmarked to religious organizations in the state's recently passed capital budget is an improper use of government funds. Americans United quotes from...
Should separation advocates move toward an acceptance of certain government references to God? That was one of the church-state issues addressed by a panel at last week's Netroots Nation conference, a yearly gathering of Internet-based progressive activists. Bruce...
