Denver-area's Douglas County has approved a pilot school voucher program that will send up to 500 students to private schools. That will include taxpayer money going to religious schools, which maake up the vast majority of those currently eligible. After...
A prisoner in a California prison who was punished for refusing to shave his beard has a new ally in his claim that his religious freedom rights were violated. The Justice Department filed suit yesterday. AP reports: The lawsuit filed Tuesday also names Gov....
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled in a controversial case pitting parent against parent in a dispute over their child's religious education. Martin Kurowski disagreed with the home-schooling his daughter was receiving from her mother and sought to have her...
Philadelphia councilwoman Jannie Blackwell has proposed hearings on the possibility of implementing prayer in school. Councilwoman Jannie L. Blackwell said her intention to hold hearings this spring on school prayer should be considered an innocuous boostering of...
Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is apparently staking his name and aspirations on the drive to undo 50 years of church-state separation. Specifically, he finds fault with John F. Kennedy's famous press conference in 1960, when he assured voters that his faith...
A Muslim woman who was forced to remove her headscarf in a Southern California holding cell can sue the county for violating her religious freedom rights, says the 9th Circuit in a ruling today. The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) indeed...
