Does the Constitution forbid tax breaks for a religious theme park? Or does the Constitution require them? Those polar opposites are the competing views in the debate over Kentucky's Ark Encouter, which the state yesterday awarded $43 million in tax incentives...
In Rutherford County, Tennessee, an attempt to halt the construction of a mosque on the foolish grounds that Islam is not a religion, and that it is inherently a threat, has been dismissed by Judge Robert Corlew. The Tennessean reports: Corlew said the plaintiffs have...
In his much-anticipated speech on this year's developments in the Middle East and North Africa, and its impact on US foreign policy, President Obama today emphasized the importance of human rights to any true democracy. He had this to say about religious freedom...
In the new issue of the Baptist Joint Committee's Report From the Capital, counsel K. Hollyn Hollman reviews the Supreme Court's actions on religious liberty this term. The U.S. Supreme Court has issued decisions in both of its religious freedom cases this...
Reuters reports on the uneasy position of many Christians in Syria, who may wish to see democratic reforms, but fear that a new government would mean far less religious freedom. Sunni Muslims form a majority in Syria, but under four decades of rule by Assad's...
Six months after the President issued an executive order reforming some of the constitutional safeguards governing faith-based funding, has anything changed? In the most recent issue of the magazine Conscience, Sarah Posner checked in on the White House's...
