Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has announced the Committee will meet Monday, July 13 to consider the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. In his statement explaining the timing of the hearing, Leahy emphasized the schedule is...
Speaking at the Baptist History and Heritage Society meeting in Huntsville, AL over the weekend, Doug Weaver urged fellow Baptists to remember where we came from a a persecuted minority. Associated Baptist Press reports: While Baptists proudly point to religious...
A unanimous panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday declared the Haskell Count, Oklahoma Ten Commandments monument unconstitutional, overturning a trial court's ruling. Citing the "unique circumstances" of the case, the court ruled (pdf)...
The Supreme Court today declined to hear the appeal in the Arizona Snowbowl case, leaving in place the 9th Circuit's ruling that RFRA does not prohibit a ski resort on federal land from introducing treated sewage (for artificial snow) into the mountain, despite...
We didn't need any more reasons to find fault with the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon briefings adorned with Scripture, but Bradford Winters at the Image Journal blog offers another reminder why a Bible-verse foreign policy is a bad idea. Tracing the biblical context of...
