The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled 4-3 that teachers in religious schools are not entitled to the protection of the state's employment discrimination laws. Highlighting a good reason to oppose school vouchers – they send tax money to employers whose...
The Storm Lake Pilot Tribune reports on the latest meeting of the Spencer, Iowa School Board, in discussions over a proposed new "religious liberty" policy. The debate considered recommendations to drop many of the provisions of the policy, including...
David Waters helpfully describes the persistent tension between Free Exercise and Establishment Clause concerns. His context is the rule barring public school teachers in Oregon from wearing religious attire – a regulation suddenly being debated now that leaders...
You've got to hand it to Missouri's South Iron R-1 School District, which managed to hold on to a 30-year practice of Bible distribution to fifth graders long after Establishment Clause challenges would have cowed less committed violators. Against the advice...
In the brief time left in the questioning of Judge Sotomayor, can we get an Establishment Clause question? Maybe a holiday display dispute? Some Ten Commandments action? Legislative prayer concerns? When it's campaign time, we hear elected officials making lots of...
