Until an injunction was issued last year, the Forsyth County (NC) Board of Commissioners regularly opened meetings with Christian prayer, in violation of the separation of church and state. The ACLU and Americans United filed suit on behalf of county residents, and a...
If 24 of the 40 Florida state senators vote yes today, a constitutional amendment allowing repealing the state's ban on the funding of religious organizations would be on the ballot in next year's election. The "no aid to religion" provision in...
Darling of the religious right for his pronouncements against church-state separation, and his peculiar twists of garbled American history supporting those conclusions, David Barton continues to increase his stature in some political circles. As Mother Jones'...
A Jehovah's Witness in need of a liver transplant has won her appeal in the Kansas Court of Appeals. The state's Health Policy Authority (KHPA) previously denied her request for out-of-state transplant where she could get the "bloodless" operation...
President Obama has declared tomorrow, May 5 to be a National Day of Prayer, an annual proclamation required by a congressional statute. The 7th Circuit recently decided that no injury is caused by that law, so it can't be challenged in court. But that doesn't...
Public schools deal with numerous issues that have the potential to become church-state problems if handled improperly. In a lawsuit filed yesterday the ACLU of Tennessee, Sumner County schools are accused of running afoul of quite a few of them. A press release...
