In South Carolina's Florence County, school district officials have agreed to stop sending e-mails with religious messages, after complaints were relayed through Americans United. The messages, sent only to staff members, contained “religious messages and,...
US Ambassador to Malta Douglas Kmiec has resigned his position after a State Department reports suggested he spends too much time writing about religion. Politico reports: “I doubt very much whether one could ever spend too much time on this subject,”...
While they await a judge's decision as to whether graduation ceremonies can take place in a local church, advocates gathered for a debate sponsored by the ACLU of Connecticut. The discussion centered on the controversy surrounding Enfield's high school's...
In his unanimous ruling (pdf) delivered yesterday, Judge Easterbrook argues that the reason no American may challenge the constitutionality of the law directing the President to declare a National Day of Prayer is that no American is injured by the action. We conclude...
By a 3-0 vote, a panel of the 7th Circuit has ruled that plaintiffs do not have standing to challenge the law establishing the National Day of Prayer. The decision overturns a trial court's declaration that the yearly event is an unconstitutional violation of the...
Officials at Saddleback College, a community college in Orange County, California, have agreed to abandon their practice of including prayer in numerous campus events like the school's scholarship ceremonies and chancellor's opening sessions. Plaintiffs...
