Earlier this week, the Kentucky State Senate passed a bill requiring its Department of Education to create the curriculum for electives in the study of the Bible. The stated purpose of courses created by SB 56 is to: Teach students knowledge of biblical content,...
A federal judge in Colorado has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the Air Force Academy prayer luncheon scheduled for next week. The lawsuit argued the luncheon, scheduled for Thursday, would violate the constitutional separation of church and state because it...
Making the point yesterday that Congress should think twice before treating a tax exemption as a government subsidy, in the case of the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" (HR 3), Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) followed that argument to one of its...
Via Howard Friedman at Religion Clause, President Obama has sent back to the Senate the nomination of Susan Johnson Cook to be Religious Freedom Ambassador at Large. Dr. Cook received a confirmation hearing last year, but no vote on the floor. This position has been...
Congressman Peter King (R-NY), the new head of the House Homeland Security Committee, is brushing aside efforts to convince him to modify plans for hearings on "Islamist extremists" in America. Today's NYTimes reports : As the hearings approach, the...
The ACLU has reached a settlement with the state of Minnesota in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the controversial TiZA charter school. The claim, filed 2 years ago, will continue against the Arabic language and culture-focused academy, which plaintiffs...
