The Santa Rosa, Florida saga has added a new minor chapter after a federal judge ruled that teachers may indeed participate in Baccalaureate services while their lawsuit proceeds. The suit, you may recall, challenges a consent decree entered into by the county and the...
Earlier this month I posted about a surely unconstitutional bill proposed in the Tennessee legislature that would make the use of Sharia law a criminal offense, basically making some forms of Islam illegal. Now, the Senator sponsoring the legislation has offered...
While many of the protesting factions leading the revolution in Egypt apparently hoped for the chance to write an entirely new constitution that might have lessened the governmental role of Islam and allowed for more religious freedom, this week's referendum...
Laurie Lebo, discussing the essential, but too often overlooked, distinction between private religious displays and those that are school-sponsored: [M]any people, including the Giles County students, misunderstand the difference between free expression of one’s...
A heated debate in New Jersey over the planned expansion of charter schools is turning the state's attention toward the religious nature of some proposed schools, like Tikun Olam, which would be a Hebrew-language high school. In Highland Park, the difficult...
Sometimes, following church-state news is a matter of revisiting similar problems and concerns time and again: a local government's insistence on praying before council meetings, Ten Commandment postings in schools and courthouses, school vouchers, crosses as...
