The ACLU of Tennessee is preparing to file suit against members of the Sumner County school board and other school officials, claiming a widespread violations of church-state separation deprived plaintiffs of the religious liberty freedoms guaranteed by the...
Today's NYTimes reports on efforts by atheists and other nonbelievers serving in the military to have one of their own added to the chaplain corps. The move is part of a broader push for equal treatment in the armed services. Chaplains at Fort Bragg…have...
At the Washington Post's On Faith site, the current debate among religious leaders and civil liberty advocates is about the prominence of religious ceremony on display at formal occasions like the impending royal wedding, despite the growing secularism of English...
Writing at the New York Review of Books blog, noted constitutional law professor and scholar Ronald Dworkin takes on the Roberts Court for its recent ruling in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn and other recent decisions that have undermined the...
Writing for the Washington Post, David Sehat presents his version of "Five Myths About Church and State in America." I especially like #5, the myth that "liberals are anti-religious." Debunking the notion that Supreme Court decisions enforcing the...
The Washington Post's Valerie Strauss offers a helpful rundown of legislation in states across the country designed to undermine the teaching of evolution in the science classroom. Most remarkable is the story of 17-year-old Zack Kopplin, a high school senior in...
